It's broken. When I woke up, "wait for the party" found that the price of the graphics card in the shopping cart had risen again. 3080ti increased the most, about 400 higher than yesterday, and 3060ti and 3070ti also increased by 100-300. Ah, what about the agreed "you, me, 200"??? (if you don't buy it, I won't buy it. It will be reduced by 200 tomorrow)
After checking the news quickly, it turns out that the hash lock of NVIDIA graphics card restricting mining computing power has been completely cracked.
This time, almost all RTX 30 systems fell, and 100% computing power was restored.
According to the screenshot released by the cracking team nicehash, the 3080ti has recovered 120mh / s, which is consistent with the unlocked data, so that the miners can get more benefits.
As the news spread, sharp eyed Netizens found that some businesses had taken action.
First out of stock off the shelf, and then collective price increases. A set of basic operations has been very skilled.
This time, many were still hesitant yesterday. Now they are still waiting for 618 players to explode directly.
It should be said that NVIDIA's computing lock has been upgraded many times since its launch, but driven by interests, major mining teams such as nicecash and nbminer have persevered in trying to crack it.
It was completely cracked this time. It can only be said that:
What should come will come after all.
This lock, it didn't lock well
This complete crack was first solved by the nicehash team of quickminer company.
RTX 30 series graphics cards have recovered 100% mining computing power except that the latest upgraded locks are used in 3050 and 3080 12g versions.
Subsequently, another cracking team, nbminer, also followed up quickly, with the same 100% cracking.
Miners have tested various models of graphics cards, and the cracking is effective.
The full name of NVIDIA's LHR mining calculation lock is Lite hash rate, which is mainly aimed at the mining efficiency of Ethereum.
LHR was first launched on the new RTX 3060 in March last year. Officials say it is to alleviate the situation that gamers can't buy cards.
At that time, Bryan del Rizzo, a public relations spokesman for NVIDIA, also publicly promised:
The mining limit is completed by the driver, BIOS and chip, which is difficult to remove easily.
However, there was an embarrassing scene shortly after the launch. NVIDIA's internal staff accidentally sent the unlocked code to the test driver.
It's too late to find the problem off the shelf drive. Various backups are everywhere on the Internet. The mining restrictions went bankrupt quickly this time.
The original price of RTX 3060 was 2499 yuan, and the highest price in April last year exceeded 8000 yuan.
By may, NVIDIA had added an upgraded LHR lock to more 30 graphics cards, which was said to be more difficult to crack.
However, under the siege of the mining team, the lock lasted only three months and was unlocked by 70% of the computing power.
So far, despite difficulties in algorithm and NVIDIA's hard work, it continues, and another strange soldier appears.
The legendary hacker organization $lapsus, which made a lot of noise a while ago, their main demand for hacking into NVIDIA's server is to unlock the LHR lock.
With the arrest of the leader of $lapsus by the police, the action of threatening NVIDIA to unlock by disclosing confidential data is gone.
But the forces of cracking the algorithm have made new progress at this time.
……
Up to now, a year is still a few days away from the full upgrade of the LHR computing lock of the 30 series. Finally, the LHR has been 100% cracked.
When the original version of the 3060 LHR was leaked from NVIDIA, the competitor amd released the new RX 6700 XT, which was roughly the same as the mining calculation power after the 3060 was unlocked.
At that time, some people suspected that NVIDIA didn't deliberately leak it for 3060 sales?
The time point of this crack is also sensitive, and there are some conspiracy theories.
From the perspective of mining, may this year was the original upgrade 2.0 of Ethereum, and the mining mode was no longer used. However, the upgrade was announced to be postponed, which saved a wave of life for Ethereum mining.
From the perspective of the renewal cycle of graphics cards, it is time for the 30 series to be sold, while the 40 series is not far from listing.
In terms of the stock market, the SEC of the US Securities and Exchange Commission has just fined NVIDIA $5.5 million because NVIDIA failed to disclose the impact of the revenue growth of cryptocurrency mining on the game business, and NVIDIA's share price also continued to decline within a month.
Some people suspect that the progress of cracking has stagnated for a long time. Suddenly, the two organizations update at the same time, which seems to be a little fishy.
However, these are after all groundless, and there is no conclusive evidence.
But in any case, the subsequent impact of the complete cracking of LHR this time is real.
Is the mining tide rising again, or is the mining disaster accelerating
Such news came, Baidu Post Bar graphics card bar has been sad.
Zhihu respondent @ Li Mingyang also analyzed that:
Once the tool is made public, it is bound to affect the price of LHR graphics card.
He also pointed out that this wave of operation of nicehash can only be said to be the first public. Previously, large miners were paying for similar tools.
In fact, this wave is to ship to large miners. The cards are scattered to small miners to prepare for upgrading the 40 series. Some graphics card dealers can also remove the sets.
Well, it's already rising
Foreign netizens are also worried about the price of graphics cards. Someone directly offered advice: don't buy anything.
Some netizens directly broke the defense, saying that the mine boss, I thank your family for making a good picture card into MLM.
Huang Renxun, you are ungrateful... This time the graphics card just began to decline, and the computing power was directly broken. Lao Huang estimated that he was sitting at home counting money and laughing.
However, many netizens feel that this wave is accelerating and playing.
Crack the great good thing, the computing power of the whole network soared, and the currency price also fell. Soon, the income was not enough for the electricity bill, accelerating the mine disaster.
That's not better. There are unscrupulous businessmen in the province who deceive Xiaobai and say that lock card can't mine. Now it's 100% mine card.
Anyway, you, me, 200, fly, understand? (manual dog head)
Finally, talk about the 40 Series graphics card.
As usual, NVIDIA's new graphics card will be launched in the third quarter, but it is also reported that the 40 series will be postponed to 2023, and the super version of 30 series will be released first this year.
The news of AMD's three new 6x50xt cards has also been exposed, and even Intel's arc series desktop graphics cards have been released recently.
So this time, when NVIDIA 30 series has not risen too much, it is suitable to "go down the mountain" and wait for a wave of 618, or endure the launch of new products?