NiceHash - 100% LHR Unlock

[AFox]

We are very excited to tell you that NiceHash QuickMiner (Excavator) is the first mining software to FULLY (100%) UNLOCK LHR cards!

Now you can earn more profits than any other mining software on the market if you are using LHR graphics cards with NiceHash QuickMiner.
Support for NiceHash Miner is coming soon.

This also makes it more advantageous than mining direct to a pool, since other software is not capable of unleashing the full capacity of your hardware.

Register at NiceHash, download our QuickMiner, and get paid in Bitcoin every 4 hours!

https://www.nicehash.com/blog/post/100-lhr-unlock-at-nicehash-its-here


I can't test myself, as my rig doesn't run Windows and isn't physically near me.
I'm curious if it really works, and with which cards.

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[philipma1957]

We are very excited to tell you that NiceHash QuickMiner (Excavator) is the first mining software to FULLY (100%) UNLOCK LHR cards!

Now you can earn more profits than any other mining software on the market if you are using LHR graphics cards with NiceHash QuickMiner.
Support for NiceHash Miner is coming soon.

This also makes it more advantageous than mining direct to a pool, since other software is not capable of unleashing the full capacity of your hardware.

Register at NiceHash, download our QuickMiner, and get paid in Bitcoin every 4 hours!

https://www.nicehash.com/blog/post/100-lhr-unlock-at-nicehash-its-here


I can't test myself, as my rig doesn't run Windows and isn't physically near me.
I'm curious if it really works, and with which cards.

I would also be interested.  BTW if so hash rate will moon.

[safar1980]

We are very excited to tell you that NiceHash QuickMiner (Excavator) is the first mining software to FULLY (100%) UNLOCK LHR cards!

Now you can earn more profits than any other mining software on the market if you are using LHR graphics cards with NiceHash QuickMiner.
Support for NiceHash Miner is coming soon.

This also makes it more advantageous than mining direct to a pool, since other software is not capable of unleashing the full capacity of your hardware.

Register at NiceHash, download our QuickMiner, and get paid in Bitcoin every 4 hours!

https://www.nicehash.com/blog/post/100-lhr-unlock-at-nicehash-its-here


I can't test myself, as my rig doesn't run Windows and isn't physically near me.
I'm curious if it really works, and with which cards.

I would also be interested.  BTW if so hash rate will moon.

How does the 100% LHR unlock work?
It's A Kind of Magic.

https://www.nicehash.com/blog/post/100-lhr-unlock-at-nicehash-its-here
RTX 3060 LHR   ~ 50 MH/s
RTX 3060 Ti LHR   ~ 60 MH/s
RTX 3070 LHR   ~ 60 MH/s
RTX 3070 Ti LHR   ~ 81 MH/s
RTX 3080 10GB LHR   ~ 98 MH/s
RTX 3080 Ti LHR   ~ 120 MH/s

[babymethyl2013]

Interesting this comes out right before a hot summer when inventory is almost full (my microcenter). I bet they are trying to move inventory before the 4000 series comes out.

[alucard20724]

but, what's the power draw?  

It doesn't mean much if efficiency is crap.

[AFox]

"Red Fox Crypto" testing live on Youtube : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykMhELRWh9U

[rdluffy]

Wow, hard to believe, I lost confidence on Nicehash after that fight with Phoenix miner and don't like to use NH anymore

It's interesting to have the full unlock in such time where all stores have stock full os cards and ETH mining is probably coming to the end
I'll follow close, even if I don't have any LHR card right now

Looks like all old cards will lose some value, since all cards will hash the same now LHR or non LHR

[alucard20724]

Wow, hard to believe, I lost confidence on Nicehash after that fight with Phoenix miner and don't like to use NH anymore

It's interesting to have the full unlock in such time where all stores have stock full os cards and ETH mining is probably coming to the end
I'll follow close, even if I don't have any LHR card right now

Looks like all old cards will lose some value, since all cards will hash the same now LHR or non LHR

i'm curious how legit it really is... you're using all Nicehash software on nicehash pool

[crazydane]

Looks good.  LHR rig before:



Same rig after (before any tuning):

[Z390]

What da? how true is this? Have anyone tried this out already I can't wait to see how my 3070ti will perform, I thought excavator miner is a standalone miner that doesn't belong to Nicehash?.

[arielbit]

3080ti investment will pay off? hehe

[zertor]

When 120% unlock?

[JayDDee]

I thought excavator miner is a standalone miner that doesn't belong to Nicehash?.

There's something odd about that. They claim ownership of Excavator and that it's open source with no dev fee.
But I can't find the source code and there's also a disclaimer for data collection in the download. A free open source miner
doesn't collect data from users.

It also isn't clear if the anti-LHR mechanism is in Excavator or the Quickminer wrapper or if Excavator can be used to
mine in other pools or mine solo.

I think I'll pass.

 

[P00P135]

I thought excavator miner is a standalone miner that doesn't belong to Nicehash?.

There's something odd about that. They claim ownership of Excavator and that it's open source with no dev fee.
But I can't find the source code and there's also a disclaimer for data collection in the download. A free open source miner
doesn't collect data from users.

It also isn't clear if the anti-LHR mechanism is in Excavator or the Quickminer wrapper or if Excavator can be used to
mine in other pools or mine solo.

I think I'll pass.

 

If it is real its probably so they can cash in on these NFT mints.  Get everyone on nashhash to mint all the 200+ Eth block rewards on minting day.  

I'll wait for lolminer or Trex to figure out how it works instead.

[alucard20724]

well.. it's working... just sucks that its nicehash...

heard a rumor that network hash jumped up by 3 terahash since this morning.

[batsonxl]

Can someone help please, i have mixed rig with amd. As soon as i run exavator from nicehash my amd cards stops mining only nvidias running good LHR unlock but my AMD cards off. i couldnt find any option to run both.

[P00P135]

Can someone help please, i have mixed rig with amd. As soon as i run exavator from nicehash my amd cards stops mining only nvidias running good LHR unlock but my AMD cards off. i couldnt find any option to run both.

Try nicehash discord or reddit for support.

[alucard20724]

Can someone help please, i have mixed rig with amd. As soon as i run exavator from nicehash my amd cards stops mining only nvidias running good LHR unlock but my AMD cards off. i couldnt find any option to run both.

nicehash/excavator is shutting down everything else .. purposely.

If you want to hash with both amd/nvidia, you need to do it with excavator.

[Wincob]

I thought excavator miner is a standalone miner that doesn't belong to Nicehash?.

There's something odd about that. They claim ownership of Excavator and that it's open source with no dev fee.
But I can't find the source code and there's also a disclaimer for data collection in the download. A free open source miner
doesn't collect data from users.

It also isn't clear if the anti-LHR mechanism is in Excavator or the Quickminer wrapper or if Excavator can be used to
mine in other pools or mine solo.

I think I'll pass.

 

I will probably pass for now too, there are still things that need some answers, like when did Nicehash bought Excavator as their own miner? If this unlock is from Excavator it should be available off Nicehash and if Nicehash implements the unlock into its Quickminer any third-party miner should work just like the excavator miner did.

[skablast]

like when did Nicehash bought Excavator as their own miner?

You are too young...

Zawawa, Gateless miner, was asked to join excavator from NH to speed things up and got paid. It was march 2018..Still I dont like NH aniway...

[crazydane]

Did some initial tuning and this rig is performing well now:



"pool side":



I was at 525 MH/s before using T-Rex, so this is an impressive improvement of 140 MH/s.  Like getting a 3090 for free!

My 3080Tis are now more efficient than my 3090s, which are all doing around 122 MH/s @ 300 Watts.

[Kalchef]

I was about to make a post about this and I saw that someone made it already  I've tested this and I was able to achieve 80MH on a 3070Ti, still I find it hard to believe that its working accurately, waiting for 24hrs to see how many SATs in BTC i will get, this is the only way I can believe it actually works.

[philipma1957]

Can someone help please, i have mixed rig with amd. As soon as i run exavator from nicehash my amd cards stops mining only nvidias running good LHR unlock but my AMD cards off. i couldnt find any option to run both.

you need to run 2 instances

one one check only nvidia

on the other check only amd

[philipma1957]

Did some initial tuning and this rig is performing well now:



"pool side":



I was at 525 MH/s before using T-Rex, so this is an impressive improvement of 140 MH/s.  Like getting a 3090 for free!

My 3080Tis are now more efficient than my 3090s, which are all doing around 122 MH/s @ 300 Watts.

and all 3090 cards drop 10% or more in value

[Maliceprime]

Can someone help please, i have mixed rig with amd. As soon as i run exavator from nicehash my amd cards stops mining only nvidias running good LHR unlock but my AMD cards off. i couldnt find any option to run both.

you need to run 2 instances

one one check only nvidia

on the other check only amd

I might just wait till this unlock gets on hiveOS because its going to be hard to run a vega 57 with my 3070ti LHR on windows OS, I can't configure the vega gpu to get high hashrate in windows OS but easy for me in Hive OS lol.

[alucard20724]

Can someone help please, i have mixed rig with amd. As soon as i run exavator from nicehash my amd cards stops mining only nvidias running good LHR unlock but my AMD cards off. i couldnt find any option to run both.

you need to run 2 instances

one one check only nvidia

on the other check only amd

Not if he's running the nicehash/excavator unlocker.   The nicehash/excavator unlocker is shutting down all other instances of mining that's not nicehash/excavator... that's what i'm seeing at least.

[batsonxl]

Can someone help please, i have mixed rig with amd. As soon as i run exavator from nicehash my amd cards stops mining only nvidias running good LHR unlock but my AMD cards off. i couldnt find any option to run both.

you need to run 2 instances

one one check only nvidia

on the other check only amd

im running 2 instances. but as soon as i run excavator amd cards just stops mining very strange. if i shut down excavator amd cards back to mining. Looked an option couldnt find nothing to prevent that.

[JayDDee]

Has anyone tried Excavator standalone? I don't have a Windows rig with Ampere.

Some web sites are reporting the unlocker doesn't work on newer cards like the 3080 12GB
suggesting LHR is continuing to be developped. What a fucking waste of development resources.

Any guesses what comes first Eth goes POS or Nvidia abandons LHR?

[alucard20724]

Has anyone tried Excavator standalone? I don't have a Windows rig with Ampere.

Some web sites are reporting the unlocker doesn't work on newer cards like the 3080 12GB
suggesting LHR is continuing to be developped. What a fucking waste of development resources.

Any guesses what comes first Eth goes POS or Nvidia abandons LHR?

I can verify that it doesn't work with 3080 12GB.

I've got a theory.  The nvidia hack was real.  The nvidia hack happened before the 3080 12GB data could be added to the data that was hacked.  Therefor, no 3080 12GB code to unlock.  Nicehash bought the data from the hackers (whatever the price might have been). 

And hence, Nicehack is born... they didn't really spend much resources in development.

that's my story and i'm sticking to it.

i'm trademarking NiceHack... 

[maXonja]

Actually this explanation makes perfect sense

[FloppyPurpleGherkin]

Has anyone tried Excavator standalone? I don't have a Windows rig with Ampere.

Some web sites are reporting the unlocker doesn't work on newer cards like the 3080 12GB
suggesting LHR is continuing to be developped. What a fucking waste of development resources.

Any guesses what comes first Eth goes POS or Nvidia abandons LHR?

I can verify that it doesn't work with 3080 12GB.

I've got a theory.  The nvidia hack was real.  The nvidia hack happened before the 3080 12GB data could be added to the data that was hacked.  Therefor, no 3080 12GB code to unlock.  Nicehash bought the data from the hackers (whatever the price might have been). 

And hence, Nicehack is born... they didn't really spend much resources in development.

that's my story and i'm sticking to it.

i'm trademarking NiceHack... 

Sounds likely.

[Coinfarm ventures]

I'm happy because now my RTX 3060 12GB LHRv2 cards, plus my RTX 3080 Ti, will probably appreciate in price. The FHR prices on feeBay tend to be 20-30% more expensive than the LHR versions these days.

Will network hashrate increase? Here's a conservative estimate.

GPU share of hashrate: 80%
nVidia share of GPU hashrate: 50%
LHRv1/v2 share of nVidia hashrate: 50%
Hashrate boost for LHRv1/v2 cards: 25%
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When you multiply these factors, it is 5% at most. Not to mention the miners who will forget to upgrade. So the real growth in hashrate will probably be 3-4%.

The people who benefit from this hack are miners with LHR cards, while miners with FHR cards will see the value of their cards drop.

[arielbit]

sooooooooo no competition from other miners?

so all these LHR cards gonna mine on nicehack only? LHR miner fee and pool fee is up for grabs, so far it all goes to nicehack. 

[edgycorner]

Wow, my non lhr 3080 will take a hit now
This will only expedite the doom of public gpu mining.

Pretty sure new driver update coming soon, but I don't think it's going to change anything.
Unless Nvidia decides to punish the users of this exploit. Which is very unlikely but still possible.

[S3300]

It's time to separate the LHR graphic cards from the FHR graphic cards, it's going to be sad news for those who have no extra motherboards at home, this sounds like using the 480,570, and 580 4GB graphic cards in single x16 PCIe slot to mine Ethereum using lolminer.

[Metroid]

well.. it's working... just sucks that its nicehash...

heard a rumor that network hash jumped up by 3 terahash since this morning.

If nicehash got it to work, other miners will and also nvidia will know how they unlocked and this lock will not work on the 4xxx series if nvidia keeps the bs, as we are starting the bear market, I believe 4xxx will likely be unlocked because will be plenty gpus from amd and intel competing fiercely with nvidia.

sooooooooo no competition from other miners?

so all these LHR cards gonna mine on nicehack only? LHR miner fee and pool fee is up for grabs, so far it all goes to nicehack.  

Majority of miners only are mining because of profit, if not profit they will sell and be done with it, in this case 99% of lhr gpus will move to nicehash. Anyway, I hope this unlock will teach something to nvidia and others that thought to do the same. This unlock means freedom defeating warlords.

like when did Nicehash bought Excavator as their own miner?

You are too young...

Zawawa, Gateless miner, was asked to join excavator from NH to speed things up and got paid. It was march 2018..Still I dont like NH aniway...

This is not about like or not like, this is about profit and get that roi. Principles in this market will be the loss for many of you, need to separate things here and the opportunity is here, act on it.

My 3080Tis are now more efficient than my 3090s, which are all doing around 122 MH/s @ 300 Watts.

and all 3090 cards drop 10% or more in value

Yeah, it seems the 3090 is done for. I saw some 3080ti right now for 1550 usd while the 3090 still keeps around at 2300 usd.

3080ti investment will pay off? hehe

That is to hope for while eth mining lasts, last year was the best time for miners, this year is a descent to hehell in mining and trading profit. However, unlike 3090, the 3080ti can be used for many other algos and holds incredible value, with this unlock, the 3080ti becomes the best gpu to mine. Even though the 3080ti is the best card to mine now on all algos, still a 600 days roi and this 600 days as we descent to hehell, will be more and more days to roi, never go full retard here, using 10% on it is not bad for fun.

I can verify that it doesn't work with 3080 12GB.

Do not expect the 3.0 lock to be very different from the 2.0, so expect a full unlock after few months.

Anyway the issue here is that you are locked into nicehash and windows, hiveos and simplemining or any other linux OS APP will not work with it.

[crazydane]

NBMiner 41.0 now has 100% unlock as well:

https://github.com/NebuTech/NBMiner/releases

Just tested and its legit:

[Ketesnuko]

sooooooooo no competition from other miners?

so all these LHR cards gonna mine on nicehack only? LHR miner fee and pool fee is up for grabs, so far it all goes to nicehack. 

If it's true that hackers might be behind this unlock I am sure that Nicehash will be back bitted because hackers can't be trusted, they always want to make money, sooner or later this hack will get to other mining platforms too, fingers crossed.

[arielbit]

sooooooooo no competition from other miners?

so all these LHR cards gonna mine on nicehack only? LHR miner fee and pool fee is up for grabs, so far it all goes to nicehack.  

If it's true that hackers might be behind this unlock I am sure that Nicehash will be back bitted because hackers can't be trusted, they always want to make money, sooner or later this hack will get to other mining platforms too, fingers crossed.

nbminer first non nicehack LHR unlock.

3080ti investment will pay off? hehe

That is to hope for while eth mining lasts, last year was the best time for miners, this year is a descent to hehell in mining and trading profit. However, unlike 3090, the 3080ti can be used for many other algos and holds incredible value, with this unlock, the 3080ti becomes the best gpu to mine. Even though the 3080ti is the best card to mine now on all algos, still a 600 days roi and this 600 days as we descent to hehell, will be more and more days to roi, never go full retard here, using 10% on it is not bad for fun.

my 3080ti's are almost 1 year and already ROI'd, this is more like extracting more value for the money.

my 3080ti's was a smart gamble that paid off, bought them betting at LHR getting unlocked in the future.

i mean, they are cheaper and cooler than 3090s with about the same hashrate if unlocked hehe

[Metroid]

NBMiner 41.0 now has 100% unlock as well:

Devs know what to apply once they see any miner doing it, is called reverse engineering. This was fast though, was expecting few days for that to happen

[kaya11]

like when did Nicehash bought Excavator as their own miner?

You are too young...

Zawawa, Gateless miner, was asked to join excavator from NH to speed things up and got paid. It was march 2018..Still I dont like NH aniway...

I've gone to a pool since the day NH was hacked, I did not thought about them building an excavator.

The news is great and this will pump LHR cards, or is it just a strategy to dispense all of old cards and getting ready for the new series of cards? I've been to mall early this morning and there is no single LHR card that I've found, they were all gone and this frustrates me for being late of the news.

[edgycorner]

NBMiner 41.0 now has 100% unlock as well:

https://github.com/NebuTech/NBMiner/releases

Just tested and its legit:

dang, I was hoping for nicehash release to be some dual mining hack lol
Seems like it's real and nvidia themselves made it happen somehow since the demand of their cards is declining.
Also GPU mining is going to be very much dead soon (chain merging + difficulty bomb ), might as well generate more revenue till Q3, before it ends. Well played NoVidya.

[0verseer]

snip

Diff bomb hasn't been set yet. There was a talk upcoming on 13/05 about whether to set it up now or delay it since record of diff bombs goes off, avg transaction's time increase and hurt the ETH ecosystem in a short term. Though I do think diff bomb is needed if ETH wants to move from PoW to PoS. This late release of 100% unlock hashrate for nvidia LHR cards feels like a prisoner's last dinner, really. Don't know if it was good news or bad news since ETH diff for now will increase further.

[edgycorner]

snip

Diff bomb hasn't been set yet. There was a talk upcoming on 13/05 about whether to set it up now or delay it since record of diff bombs goes off, avg transaction's time increase and hurt the ETH ecosystem in a short term. Though I do think diff bomb is needed if ETH wants to move from PoW to PoS. This late release of 100% unlock hashrate for nvidia LHR cards feels like a prisoner's last dinner, really. Don't know if it was good news or bad news since ETH diff for now will increase further.

I think it will take this entire month to know for certain.  Even devs aren't sure whether they can push a stable merge with all clients before the bomb. But there's a good chance of merging before August or Sept. Recent shadowforks are going pretty well with minor bugs.

There's still a chance of another hard fork delay tho lol
It's like a Hitchcock movie, we won't know for sure until the last week(possibly last day) of this month.

Either way, I am selling off my GPUs. Can't take that risk
Best time for selling non LHR cards was last week, second best time is now.

[cudapop]

I can verify that it doesn't work with 3080 12GB.

I've got a theory.  The nvidia hack was real.  The nvidia hack happened before the 3080 12GB data could be added to the data that was hacked.  Therefor, no 3080 12GB code to unlock.  Nicehash bought the data from the hackers (whatever the price might have been). 

And hence, Nicehack is born... they didn't really spend much resources in development.

that's my story and i'm sticking to it.

i'm trademarking NiceHack... 

Extremely curious that both the Nicehash and NBminer unlocks require the latest Nvidia driver to work, and both won't work with the v3 LHR. It's almost as if Nvidia "coordinated" this unlock to sell off remaining ampere GPUs in preparation for Ada/4000 series.

[CryptoATM]

snip

Diff bomb hasn't been set yet. There was a talk upcoming on 13/05 about whether to set it up now or delay it since record of diff bombs goes off, avg transaction's time increase and hurt the ETH ecosystem in a short term. Though I do think diff bomb is needed if ETH wants to move from PoW to PoS. This late release of 100% unlock hashrate for nvidia LHR cards feels like a prisoner's last dinner, really. Don't know if it was good news or bad news since ETH diff for now will increase further.

It's pretty hard to know what ETH teams are up to right now or maybe they are even in conjunction with Nvidia, I am sure that since the 100% LHR unlock news came out many will still be crazy enough to go out and buy new LHR cards, thinking things will be this way for a long time.

[safar1980]

Are you seeing a big rise in ETH hashrate?
https://etherscan.io/chart/hashrate
Or the community hasn't updated their miners and mining software yet, or the LHR video cards are very few in mining.

[Metroid]

Are you seeing a big rise in ETH hashrate?
https://etherscan.io/chart/hashrate
Or the community hasn't updated their miners and mining software yet, or the LHR video cards are very few in mining.

It will take at least a week to see an increment in hashrate due to 100% lhr unlock. Few people are aware of it or haven't got the time to update yet.

[Coinfarm ventures]

Are you seeing a big rise in ETH hashrate?
https://etherscan.io/chart/hashrate
Or the community hasn't updated their miners and mining software yet, or the LHR video cards are very few in mining.

It will take at least a week to see an increment in hashrate due to 100% lhr unlock. Few people are aware of it or haven't got the time to update yet.

The increase will be very small (3-4%) because LHR video cards are a fraction of the network hashrate, even under worst-case assumptions.

[JayDDee]

Extremely curious that both the Nicehash and NBminer unlocks require the latest Nvidia driver to work, and both won't work with the v3 LHR. It's almost as if Nvidia "coordinated" this unlock to sell off remaining ampere GPUs in preparation for Ada/4000 series.

And they require admin priviledges. This suggests a driver featurebug that can fully disable LHRv2 and is easilly hacked.
This unocker could break in a future driver version.

[BitKongy]

Are you seeing a big rise in ETH hashrate?
https://etherscan.io/chart/hashrate
Or the community hasn't updated their miners and mining software yet, or the LHR video cards are very few in mining.

It will take at least a week to see an increment in hashrate due to 100% lhr unlock. Few people are aware of it or haven't got the time to update yet.

No way, I was monitoring ETH mining difficulty for days now and the day that the news of the LHR unlock was released ETH mining difficulty rose from 13.8 P to 14.8P, now the difficulty is crashing as well maybe because people now see that the unlock makes not much difference in profits lol.

[OgNasty]

Very interesting.  I'm also not very interested in this at the moment due to profitability and the fact that summer and it's demonic heat are quickly approaching my neck of the woods.  In fact, I've shut down a few miners already but maybe with this 100% LHR unlock I'll think about firing up my one LHR model to see how it goes.  Mostly I hope that this doesn't stay a secret for long and other miners are able to accomplish this same unlock so that we aren't stuck using Nicehash software.  I don't see any reason why on anything besides a LHR model you would use their software, so maybe this is a big opportunity for them to win some market share.

[Coinfarm ventures]

No way, I was monitoring ETH mining difficulty for days now and the day that the news of the LHR unlock was released ETH mining difficulty rose from 13.8 P to 14.8P, now the difficulty is crashing as well maybe because people now see that the unlock makes not much difference in profits lol.

That isn't possible because it takes a few days or a few weeks from when miners buy new rigs to when they are online. Probably just a random fluctuation or coin profit-switching.

A more extreme example of difficulty lagging behind profitability is ASIC mining, where mining farms take weeks or months to build, so hashrate takes a long time to catch up.

[alucard20724]

nbminer has test version 41.4 that works for 3080 12GB. (in discord channel)

I'm getting 106mhash @ 320 watts for my evga 3080 gb with drivers 511.79 windows 11.  +1000 mem oc.  i haven't tweaked yet for efficiency.

[OgNasty]

I guess I'm the only idiot who runs GPUs underclocked to get that sweet hash without the massive heat bonus.  Nevertheless, I slapped an underclocked 3060ti onto this Nicehash miner to see what it would do.  I'm now getting 43mh/s as opposed to the 27mh/s I was getting prior to this.  Granted it isn't the 60mh/s that others are claiming with a 3060ti, but it's definitely an improvement and my miner is sitting at temps that make me smile.  I'm not going to play around with overclocking and trying to get that 60+ number, because summertime, but I'm satisfied with this improvement and hope it comes to other miners soon.  Using Nicehash software makes me feel like I need a shower.