Kaspa (KAS) Mining is Slowly Catching Up to ETC Mining Popularity

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In keeping with the mining statistics supplied by Hive OS community based mostly on the customers of their platform Kaspa (KAS) is the second hottest coin mined with already greater than 50% of the Ethereum Traditional (ETC) miners and the third spot is for RavenCoin (RVN) with round 30% of the miners of ETC. The comparability here’s a bit unfair as there are ASIC miners out there, although most Ethash/ETChash ASICs aren’t supported by HiveOS, so the stats is primarily based on GPU miners. Though ETC continues to be with very sturdy place for GPU miners partly because of the twin mining with Zilliqa (ZIL), its place for the highest mineable GPU crypto coin is slowly been overtaken by different cash such the newcomer KAS or the extra established RVN. Kaspa (KAS) can be dual-mined with ZIL already for some extra further revenue and it’ll in all probability not be lengthy till we see different cash corresponding to RVN additionally getting dual-mining with ZIL as properly.

The mining statistics additionally reveals another attention-grabbing issues corresponding to Radeon RX 570 and RX 580 being the most well-liked AMD mining GPUs and GeForce RTX 3070 and GTX 1660 Tremendous being the most well-liked Nvidia GPUs. So far as ASIC miners are thought-about, we see the highest taken by the Antminer L3+ Scrypt miner as it’s extra worthwhile than the nonetheless highly regarded Antminer S9 SHA256 ASIC miner for Bitcoin. Although you must notice that each prime positions are with the Hiveon firmware put in that brings plenty of further choices for tweaking the miners for significantly better effectivity in comparison with the inventory settings. To not point out that the L3+ and the S9 are recently getting used loads in DIY tasks for house heaters that additionally mine crypto to pay for a number of the electrical energy payments.

So far as the most well-liked mining software program used on the platform, it appears that evidently the chief is presently lolMiner, in all probability as a result of it’s the finest performing and have wealthy KAS miner on the market in the mean time, adopted by Teamredminer and Nbminer on third place. Most Kaspa (KAS) miners are presently sticking to lolMiner, although GMiner is getting there efficiency sensible and recently sort of main function sensible with the addition of dual-mining KAS with ZIL. ETC miners nonetheless use a wide range of miners which can be based mostly extra on private desire as there are plenty of choices for mining ETC with very related efficiency and the identical goes for RVN as properly.