Miners searching for new blockchains in the wake of Ethereum’s Merge are struggling as intense competition for blocks reduces profitability.
With Ethereum’s move away from proof-of-work based GPU mining to a proof-of-stake based consensus mechanism, many of the miner operators who formerly supported the world’s second-largest blockchain network are moving to other PoW networks like ETC and RVN.
But with the eager embrace of new miners to these networks comes a rise in block difficulty that, at current market conditions and energy costs, is making it difficult for GPU miners to turn a profit, according to Ben Gagnon, chief mining officer at bitcoin miner Bitfarms (BITF).
“GPU #mining is dead less than 24 hours after the #merge,” Gagnon tweeted, adding that three of the largest chains that utilize the mining method offer negligible profits and that “the only coins showing profit have no marketcap or liquidity.”
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