Soon you won't be able to mine Ether yourself. But you don't have to throw away your old mining hardware: we'll show you which alternatives are worth it.
Environmentally harmful, too time-consuming, too expensive: The Ethereum network would like to get rid of the energy-intensive Proof of Work (PoW) sooner or later and use a more economical Proof of Stake algorithm to approve blocks in the future. This is understandable given the enormous resource requirements, but it leaves miners high and dry with their hardware.
Due to the soaring prices, using the national graphics card for mining Ether coins is still valid to a certain extent in this country. Before Ethereum 2.0 comes along and the end of Proof of Work, the question is: What currency could be mined instead and is it worth it?
If you look at the list of cryptocurrencies, out of more than 1000 entries on the analysis site Coinmarketcap, there are still a good 450 that can be mined themselves. Most of them are irrelevant, i.e. they are barely traded or have a very limited scope of application. Since many miners are more likely to focus on potential profit than on idealism, there are ultimately only a few relevant candidates with which Ethereum mining could be replaced in the long term.
