Bitmain’s upcoming Antminer KS3 ASIC miner for Kaspa (KAS) has been introduced and it boasts some loopy specs for positive, particularly in contrast to what’s already obtainable available on the market. 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 by way of hashrate and goes to be far more energy environment friendly. With the present whole 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 gadgets and Bitmain needs to be producing far more than that for positive…

There isn’t any official worth introduced but and Bitmain is working a contest for customers to guess the worth, however you may count on it to be within the tens of 1000’s for positive. Bitmain plans to start out transport the KS3 miners in August, which means which you can count on an enormous spike in issue round that point as the brand new machines begin going surfing. There can be a few reductions of the block reward of KAS by that point and with the huge spike within the hashrate the loopy excessive profitability of over $2500 USD per day in the meanwhile for the KS3 needs to be a lot decrease by the point you may really get your fingers 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’s going to grow to be unprofitable for positive, even with the worth growing it’s going to nonetheless be unreasonable to suppose that you simply’d be capable to compete with considerably sooner and far more energy environment friendly by way of hashrate ASIC miners. You continue to have a little 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.