again, mining DASH is so very unprofitable. WHO are miners?
I have heard this so many times in the past as well, specially when Dash was in a bear market (way back before the major 2017 pump).
People were wondering even back then how Dash still had miners, when it was so unprofitable to mine.
I am not surprised to see that same questioning emerge in this bear market. Seems like Dash miners / Dash mining pools can survive bear markets much better
then people think they can. We just had 1.3% of the block rewards moved from miners to masternodes, and it did not seem to dent the hashrate in any way.
Source :
https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/dash-hashrate.html#1yYou can believe toknormal and his assumption of miners also operating masternodes (which he offers no evidence for). Or just accept that Dash miners throughout Dash history
have shown more resilience and endurance, then people have given them credit for.
What i do wonder is how many miners are part of a mining multi-pool (where the mining multi-pool is mining several altcoin blockchains at once), that used to be a big thing.
Now with all the Dash ASICS miners out there (24) and the stability of Dash hashrate, i suspect multi-pool mining may have less of an effect on Dash mining these days.
On the other hand Luxor Mining Pool (23% extraction for the Dash network) & Antpool (13% extraction for the Dash network) do seem to be multi-pools
Source :
https://chainz.cryptoid.info/dash/#!extraction
Here is something interesting :
DASH can be mined by 24 Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) currently on the market with the most recent ASIC release in November 2019. Thus far, there are no X11 ASICs set for release in 2020.
Only 12 of the 24 ASICs are currently profitable at US$0.04 per kilowatt-hour (c/kWh).
Source :
https://bravenewcoin.com/insights/dash-price-analysis-usd-market-flips-bullishSo the question is, who can mine at US$0.04 per kilowatt-hour (c/kWh) ? Or formulated differently : who can mine at low electricity cost ?
Or better yet,
where can one mine with very low electricity cost ?