Author Topic: The future of POW altcoin mining (Read 1239 times)

Husires · « **on:** March 05, 2024, 03:58:58 PM »

In the past period, I noticed the difficulty of making a good profit from mining some altcoins. If we ignore LTC and Doge, the return from mining a lot of altcoins has become more difficult than in the past. I have about (850MH 690W) *3 , which is about 2550 MH, and I used to get a return of about $6 per day from mining some altcoins. But now it has become difficult to get $2, so what do you think about the future of altcoin mining?

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ABCbits · « **Reply #1 on:** March 06, 2024, 12:18:24 PM »

With new altcoin avoiding PoW and there aren't many existing PoW altcoin with strong community or uniqueness, i'd assume altcoin mining would be less attractive in the future. If we look at https://www.coingecko.com/en/categories/proof-of-work-pow, there are only 9 PoW coins in top 100 and 37 PoW coins in top 1000.

Rex067 · « **Reply #2 on:** March 21, 2024, 02:56:03 AM »

Quote from: Husires on March 05, 2024, 03:58:58 PM

In the past period, I noticed the difficulty of making a good profit from mining some altcoins. If we ignore LTC and Doge, the return from mining a lot of altcoins has become more difficult than in the past. I have about (850MH 690W) *3 , which is about 2550 MH, and I used to get a return of about $6 per day from mining some altcoins. But now it has become difficult to get $2, so what do you think about the future of altcoin mining?

The future of pow mining altcoin is something else. However there are lots of alternative coin which use different mechanism, such as proof of stake. Most people believe that POW mining will continue to increase in profit in a long term.

Husires · « **Reply #3 on:** March 23, 2024, 01:29:05 PM »

Quote from: ABCbits on March 06, 2024, 12:18:24 PM

With new altcoin avoiding PoW and there aren't many existing PoW altcoin with strong community or uniqueness, i'd assume altcoin mining would be less attractive in the future. If we look at https://www.coingecko.com/en/categories/proof-of-work-pow, there are only 9 PoW coins in top 100 and 37 PoW coins in top 1000.

Many of them are bitcoinForks and the rest have low hashrates that make renting nicehash a good amount of money to perform a 51% double spend attack.
will try my luck with KAS

philipma1957 · « **Reply #4 on:** April 09, 2024, 03:06:44 AM »

I am mining raven coin with a lot of gpus. Basically I am breakeven will slowly sell cards off as time passes.

KingsDen · « **Reply #5 on:** April 18, 2024, 01:56:34 PM »

Quote from: Husires on March 05, 2024, 03:58:58 PM

The future of POW altcoin mining

I have e known PoW for bitcoin while PoS for altcoins. It is a matter of time and every altcoins will migrate to PoS. It was same with BTC where 50BTC was the reward with a lesser energy and what about it today. Solo miners are no longer profitable. Altcoins cannot withstand this but will soon change protocols to PoS.

MrSpasybo · « **Reply #6 on:** April 22, 2024, 10:51:33 PM »

Quote from: KingsDen on April 18, 2024, 01:56:34 PM

I have e known PoW for bitcoin while PoS for altcoins. It is a matter of time and every altcoins will migrate to PoS. It was same with BTC where 50BTC was the reward with a lesser energy and what about it today. Solo miners are no longer profitable. Altcoins cannot withstand this but will soon change protocols to PoS.

I don't think ALTS will switch to POS anytime soon because we still have ETC/ETHW - blockchains that are thriving based on POW. My friends are still mining ETC/ETHW and making a decent profit. Other POW coins are also very popular like DOGE, LTC, XMR - I believe thay they will not switch to POS.

A new POW project called Kaspa has seen an impressive price increase for the KAS token, confirming the strong presence of POW in the crypto market. POS has an energy advantage, but decentralization is a complex issue, and even the Ethereum Foundation is looking to address this issue as LSD and LRD become more popular.

Altcoins Talks - Cryptocurrency Forum · « **Reply #6 on:** April 22, 2024, 10:51:33 PM »

electronicash · « **Reply #7 on:** April 22, 2024, 11:23:04 PM »

Quote from: MrSpasybo on April 22, 2024, 10:51:33 PM

Quote from: KingsDen on April 18, 2024, 01:56:34 PM
I have e known PoW for bitcoin while PoS for altcoins. It is a matter of time and every altcoins will migrate to PoS. It was same with BTC where 50BTC was the reward with a lesser energy and what about it today. Solo miners are no longer profitable. Altcoins cannot withstand this but will soon change protocols to PoS.
I don't think ALTS will switch to POS anytime soon because we still have ETC/ETHW - blockchains that are thriving based on POW. My friends are still mining ETC/ETHW and making a decent profit. Other POW coins are also very popular like DOGE, LTC, XMR - I believe thay they will not switch to POS.

A new POW project called Kaspa has seen an impressive price increase for the KAS token, confirming the strong presence of POW in the crypto market. POS has an energy advantage, but decentralization is a complex issue, and even the Ethereum Foundation is looking to address this issue as LSD and LRD become more popular.

KAS rocketed to $0.14 few months ago. i hurried to buy some of it but after that it slowly just going down. i learned the coin actually existed since 2020 and there were lots of people mining already that time. not sure how big the community acutally.

but these days investors are asking the use case of the coin before investing. that's why POW altcoins sometimes are not very attractive to investors. if it were like ETH which has smart contract and can be mined as well. i think there will be demand.

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