Mining
Now that Ethereum (ETH) is now not mineable crypto coin you don’t have to fret about its DAG dimension and the quantity of reminiscence you might have on any Ethash mining {hardware}, or perhaps this isn’t completely true. Earlier than switching from PoW (mining) to PoS (staking) Ethereum’s DAG dimension has already handed the 5GB dimension making it unimaginable for miners utilizing video playing cards and ASIC miners with much less reminiscence to mine it. However since ETHW and ETHF are forks from Ethereum their DAG sizes are additionally over 5GB already, so mining these with older {hardware} is just not doable anymore and it will take a couple of yr and a half earlier than these attain the 6GB DAG dimension…
So, GPUs and ASIC miners with 6GB or much less reminiscence will cease being usable for mining these Ethereum forks, however there are plenty of different “youthful” crypto cash which have a lot smaller DAG dimension which might be nonetheless mineable with older 4GB GPUs or ASIC miners and might be mineable for fairly a very long time sooner or later. EtherGem (EGEM) is a crypto coin that has lately handed the 4GB DAG dimension, and QuarkChain (QKC) is anticipated to succeed in it very quickly later this month. Then there are additionally the most recent additions to the Ethash crypto cash corresponding to Proof of Memes (POM or ETH2.0) and PinkChain (PINK) that had been only in the near past launched and nonetheless have simply 1GB DAG dimension.
MinerStat has an fascinating and helpful Ethash DAG Measurement Calendar service obtainable that offers you a listing of most cash, although not all, which might be Ethash and related algorithms which might be DAG-based and when they are going to attain sure sizes for his or her DAGs. There may be additionally a straightforward DAG dimension calculator that can assist you to do some math by yourself for the supported cash, corresponding to for instance to examine when Ravencoin (RVN) could have a 6G DAG dimension (March 2027). This device could be fairly helpful for anybody with older Ethash ASIC miners corresponding to first era iPollos with 4GB reminiscence, Jasminer X4 with 5GB reminiscence and so on. in addition to for GPUs with 3GB, 4GB, 6GB video reminiscence and so on.
