Crypto Miners Found A Clever Workaround To NVIDIA’s GeForce Hashrate Limiter

The only things guaranteed in life are death, taxes, and that cryptocurrency miners will figure out a way to bypass restrictions that limit their efforts in the blockchain. To the latter point, even NVIDIA’s Lite Hash Rate (LHR) technology is proving no match for resourceful miners. Following up on a previous workaround to partially bypass the hash rate limiter that’s cooked into LHR GeForce cards, miners have now seemingly figured out how to tap a card’s full potential for mining.

Well, it gets more disappointing (if you’re a gamer). The latest version of T-Rex, another cryptocurrency mining software package, allows miners to tap into that remaining 30 percent, in a roundabout sort of way. The catch is, they can’t unlock the full mining power of an LHR card to mine a single type of cryptocurrency, such as Ravencoin. But if they split the workload between two coins, they essentially achieve full mining performance.

For example, a miner could devote 70 percent of the hash rate to Ravencoin or Ergo, and the other 30 percent to Ethereum. It’s part of a new “dual mining” LHR trigger.

“This option allows you to use the full potential of LHR cards that have enough VRAM to hold two DAGs/datasets by mining two cryptocurrencies simultaneously – ETH (~30 percent) and some other (~70 percent),” the developer explains.