Nvidia has officially confirmed the disabling of mining protection on their video cards

An Nvidia spokesperson has confirmed rumors that the company has removed the cryptocurrency mining protection (LHR) in the latest version of its graphics driver for Windows and Linux.

«We don’t believe it’s necessary in the current environment,» an Nvidia spokesperson said, as quoted by PC Mag.

LHR (Lite Hash Rate) protection appeared in February 2021 amid a severe shortage of GeForce RTX 30 graphics cards on the market: all models were bought up by miners, gamers got almost nothing, and if they did, it was for a lot of money, which exacerbated the shortage.

After Ethereum switched to the PoS algorithm, there was no longer any need for miners to keep the network running. So now there is really no need for LHR protection.