Nvidia to cripple Ethereum mining on GeForce RTX 3060 cards to deter crypto bods from nabbing all the gear

Driver-level limitation to favor gamers, coin-crafting hardware to follow
Nvidia announced a new line of GPUs solely for mining cryptocurrencies on Thursday – and that it's halving the cryptocurrency mining efficiency of forthcoming GeForce cards in an effort to keep the kit in the hands of gamers when the hardware goes on sale next week.…