Bitmain’s Upcoming Antminer KS3 ASIC for Kaspa (KAS) is Loopy Quick

Bitmain’s upcoming Antminer KS3 ASIC miner for Kaspa (KAS) has been introduced and it boasts some loopy specs for certain, particularly in contrast to what’s already accessible in the marketplace. The hashrate of the KS3 ASIC miner is supposedly 8.3 TH/s with a 3188 Watts of energy utilization, which means a 0.38 J/GHs energy effectivity. As a comparability a single RTX 3070 GPU optimized does one thing like 600 MH/s at 90 Watts of energy used, so a single KS3 ASIC miner is the same as round 14000 Nvidia RTX 3070 GPUs when it comes to hashrate and goes to be far more energy environment friendly. With the present complete community hashrate of Kaspa (KAS) at round 1.16 PH/s at this very second, doubling it with the Antminer KS3 ASIC miners would solely take similar to 140 units and Bitmain must be producing far more than that for certain…

There isn’t any official worth introduced but and Bitmain is working a contest for customers to guess the worth, however you’ll be able to count on it to be within the tens of hundreds for certain. Bitmain plans to begin transport the KS3 miners in August, which means that you could count on an enormous spike in problem round that point as the brand new machines begin logging on. There can be a few reductions of the block reward of KAS by that point and with the large spike within the hashrate the loopy excessive profitability of over $2500 USD per day in the intervening time for the KS3 must be a lot decrease by the point you’ll be able to truly get your palms on a miner. Bitmain after all needs to take your cash now for the KS3.

So, FPGA mining and GPU mining for KAS will begin to fade out with ASIC miners hitting the community as it is going to turn into unprofitable for certain, even with the worth growing it is going to nonetheless be unreasonable to suppose that you just’d have the ability to compete with considerably sooner and rather more energy environment friendly when it comes to hashrate ASIC miners. You continue to have a bit extra time left to mine although, so don’t be fast to modify to a different coin simply but. Or use the chance to stack up on some KAS cash whereas the worth is low.