{"id":5844,"date":"2021-05-20T14:41:06","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T18:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=5844"},"modified":"2021-05-20T14:41:07","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T18:41:07","slug":"nvidias-rtx300-cards-will-receive-anti-mining-flags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/nvidias-rtx300-cards-will-receive-anti-mining-flags\/","title":{"rendered":"Nvidia&#8217;s RTX300 Cards Will Receive Anti-Mining Flags"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Nvidia&#8217;s GeForce RTX 3000 graphic cards will receive an update this month that will slow the mining of the cryptocurrency Ethereum using hardware-level flags.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The American multinational technology company&#8217;s announcement on Tuesday detailed that most of the consumer-grade GPUs that come out the Nvidia&#8217;s factories ranging from the RTX 360 Ti to the RTX 3080, will feature a new sticker that displays &#8220;Lite Hash Rate,&#8221; or &#8220;LHR,&#8221; on the hardware, driver, and BIOS level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nvidia tried to do something about this crypto-mining problem with the RTX 360 in February. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This GPU launch promised to try to halve the Ethereum mining rates from their full potential.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The move was intended to discourage miners from buying up limited shares.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new update will hopefully be more successful in slowing down the pace of cryptocurrency mining.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The company did not provide details of what changes are expected this time.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2021\/05\/nvidia-will-add-anti-mining-flags-to-the-rest-of-its-rtx-3000-gpu-series\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in Arstechnica.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nvidia RTX 3000 graphic cards to receive update that will slow the mining of Ethereum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-companies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5844"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5847,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5844\/revisions\/5847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}