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Nvidia 30XX LHR Mining Restrictions Have Finally been 100% Beaten!
Although the Nvidia 30XX series of graphics cards have seen a number of moderate changes since they were first released back in late 2020, one of the most substantial revisions the designs saw was the introduction of their Lite Hash Rate (LHR) anti-mining technology. Rolling out to the vast majority…
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Bitcoin Donors Send Over $13.7M to Ukraine! – But Scams Also Appear!
Following Russia launching its invasion of Ukraine last week, the situation in the region has clearly been more than a little distressing. Admittedly, it’s significantly more so for the people actually living there, but the international community is generally appalled at what they mostly view as an unprovoked act of…
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Biostar Risks Criticism After Unveiling iMiner A588X8D2 Pre-Built Mining System
Getting a graphics card continues to remain an exceptionally difficult and (generally) expensive task. – While there are, of course, many factors that have led to this situation, it’s hard to deny that the growth in cryptocurrency mining has undoubtedly played a significant role. – In something that may represent…
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Testing Finds the AMD 6600XT is Surprisingly Good at Mining!
Following the release of the AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT earlier this week (which you can check out our review/s of here!), while it certainly represented itself as an exceptionally competent 1080p gaming graphics card, the overall consensus we took away was that comparatively speaking, it might’ve been just a…
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Police Publicly Crush 1,000+ Crypto-Mining Computers – Video
Industrial-scale Cryptocurrency mining operations have definitely become something of a major problem, particularly in developing countries where the attraction of low energy prices and/or low-key locations often tempts people into setting up their base there. In a public demonstration against illegal mining, however, Malaysian police have released a video in…
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Ukrainian PS4 Farm Was NOT Mining Cryptocurrency!
You may recall a story around a week ago that following a raid on an industrial unit in Ukraine, while authorities expected to find an illegal cryptocurrency mining operation (largely based on the fact that massive amounts of electricity was being stolen), what they discovered instead was 3,800 PS4 consoles…
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Graphics Cards Get Even Cheaper in China After Crypto-Crackdown!
Earlier this month it was confirmed that following a huge crackdown on mining operations in China, largely due to the exploitation of the relatively low cost of energy there, many industrial-level Cryptocurrency operations were, rather quickly, shutting themselves down. Well, it was either do that or face being thrown into…
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GPU Prices Plunge in China Following Crypto Crackdown
In something that the countries government has clearly not been very happy about, following the recent Cryptocurrency boom, China has effectively become the home of industrial-scale mining operations. This does primarily boil down to one key factor. Put simply, the cost of electricity there is rather cheap. Well, significantly cheaper…
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Bitcoin Slumps to $30,000 in Latest Crash
Since the latter part of 2020, there has definitely been a significant renewed interest in Cryptocurrency. Something that has certainly been reflected with the rapid rise in the value of Bitcoin. Hitting an all-time high of just under $65,000 last March, however, the trend since has certainly been more in…
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AMD Says it Will NOT Restrict Mining on their GPUs
Following the release of the Nvidia 3060, the graphics card manufacturer made the surprisingly decent move of limiting the hash-rate the GPU could produce. Put simply, this meant that it wasn’t anywhere near as good at cryptocurrency mining as it might otherwise have been. – Yes, admittedly, following this they…
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Bitcoin Sets New Record With $60,000 Barrier Broken
It’s hard to deny that since the latter part of 2020, the value of Bitcoin has been rising quite significantly. Now, of course, the impact of this growth has undoubtedly played a major role in the current shortage of graphics cards as mining organizations look to capitalize upon this. Overall…
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Nvidia 3080 Ti to Feature Crypto-Killing 3060 Tech?
One of the biggest problems in getting a gaming graphics card at the moment, as a general consumer, is the fact that most of them are getting eagerly snapped up by cryptocurrency miners. There was, however, some hope given when it was revealed that the recently launched 3060 featured technology…
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Nvidia Confirms 30HX/40HX Crypto-Mining GPUs are Turing Designs
Last week Nvidia gave the graphics card market more than a little shock when they announced new GPUs were being created that would specifically target the cryptocurrency mining community/industry. Of course, the idea is two-fold that would potentially alleviate pressure on the shortfall of standard ‘gaming’ models, but it would…
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Nvidia – 3060 Anti-Mining Design is NOT Just About Drivers!
Representing something that was undoubtedly more than a little surprising, Nvidia recently confirmed that with the upcoming release of their new GeForce RTX 3060 graphics card set for February 25th, they’d been hard at work to implement some new technologies that would, all going well, completely deter this model from…
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Bitcoin Smashes $50,000 Barrier – Just How High Will It Go?
I don’t think many would’ve predicted this time last year that Bitcoin would’ve seen a boom as huge and practically vertical as it has over the last few months. Sure, the value of the Cryptocurrency, in general, was always likely set to go up, but following the latest update on…
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