Mining Ergo and Ravencoin for 2024

[FirmWars]

Which coin would you rather hold for 2024? Between Ergo, Flux and Ravencoin or all three? Which one do you think it has the potential to increase more in value at that time?

[wheelz1200]

Which coin would you rather hold for 2024? Between Ergo, Flux and Ravencoin or all three? Which one do you think it has the potential to increase more in value at that time?

This is in the wrong section, this is for mining topics this shoukd be moved to altcoin discussion or speculation. 

[Metroid]

ravecoin follows bitcoin, so little increase over time, ergo will have a huge increase in price starting the next bullrun in 2024, ergo reward will be less and less every 3 months till it hits 3 ergo per block in 2027, right now is at 66 per block.

[VRExpress]

They are all good PoW coins but it will be way easier to buy them when a bear market is here than mining them, Ravencoin can still go down to 0.02$ someday and ergo can go back to 2$ per coin, you need patience unless you already have a mining rig and ETH mining did vanish after June 2022.

[dedizonesv2]

ravecoin follows bitcoin, so little increase over time, ergo will have a huge increase in price starting the next bullrun in 2024, ergo reward will be less and less every 3 months till it hits 3 ergo per block in 2027, right now is at 66 per block.

no ERGO Block is 63 actually

Epoch #3: 68d 18h 42m 43s

[Metroid]

no ERGO Block is 63 actually

Epoch #3: 68d 18h 42m 43s

hehe, so it already started, that fast hehe, you can see profitability already crashing hard hehe with that 5%, imagine next 6 months or so eheh.

https://curiaregiscrypto.medium.com/eip-0027-soft-fork-proposal-187db1163caa

current block "725741"

66 Old 54 New Block Height 699,393
63 Old 51 New Block Height 720,000
60 Old 48 New Block Height 784,000
57 Old 45 New Block Height 849,600

So every 64.8k block, there will be a reduction. If price does not increase then will be tough for miners in few months, less profitability, less people mining it.

[CryptoATM]

no ERGO Block is 63 actually

Epoch #3: 68d 18h 42m 43s

hehe, so it already started, that fast hehe, you can see profitability already crashing hard hehe with that 5%, imagine next 6 months or so eheh.

https://curiaregiscrypto.medium.com/eip-0027-soft-fork-proposal-187db1163caa

current block "725741"

66 Old 54 New Block Height 699,393
63 Old 51 New Block Height 720,000
60 Old 48 New Block Height 784,000
57 Old 45 New Block Height 849,600

So every 64.8k block, there will be a reduction. If price does not increase then will be tough for miners in few months, less profitability, fewer people mining it.

Its exactly what I pray for, the time where no coin is profitable to mine and slowly miners will start leaving the space and selling their rigs but guess what I have no reason to quit, this is the time I want to start mining.

[FP91G]

Ergo miners approve EIP 37
Ergo's miners have approved adjusting its difficulty adjustment algorithm (EIP 37). Consequently, the chain has hard-forked at a block height of 844,673.
https://satoshiscountry.com/ergo-miners-approve-eip-37/
Other than EIP-37, the Ergo community is exploring ways to make ERG mining more friendly. One of those ideas is developing a way to incentivize miners' loyalty to the chain. Miners commit their hashpower to Ergo for n consecutive epochs would receive bonus rewards.

[batsonxl]

Altcoins halving not impacting lik BTC does. I saw many halvings been done before result is miners earn less and more bad price goes down down.but in BTC situation is different whenever btc does halving after some time price goes up.

[swogerino]

I think the best you can do is to mine ETHW if you have cards well over 4 GB in memory as I believe this coin to be of a much more value in USD than it is actually now where it has just started.The difficulty is still relatively low for this coin despite that almost every coin including ETHW is being mined with a loss right now.

For the long term I always suggest this coin as if the developers will be true to their words I think only really good things will come to this coin which for me will be the new de facto mined coin after ETH moved to PoS some weeks earlier.

[grendel25]

Which coin would you rather hold for 2024? Between Ergo, Flux and Ravencoin or all three? Which one do you think it has the potential to increase more in value at that time?

None of the above:

Epic Cash $EPIC

[FP91G]

There are no profitable coins for mining right now. Even on free electricity, mining on video cards brings very little profit and the payback period for equipment is very long. For example, if the power supply breaks down on the mining farm, then it will take enough time to recover the losses due to the profit in mining.

[Plaguedeath]

I don't see any bright future to mine those coins because there's no any improvement and we're suffering a bear market. In bear market it doesn't profitable to mine altcoins, mining Bitcoin is only worth if you're have many ASICs hardware and cheap electricity on your area. Actually it's already too late for me to sell GPUs since the price aren't high like before, so I'd rather wait until bull season will happen and start to mine using my GPUs.

[Duncaniso]

They are all good PoW coins but it will be way easier to buy them when a bear market is here than mining them, Ravencoin can still go down to 0.02$ someday and ergo can go back to 2$ per coin, you need patience unless you already have a mining rig and ETH mining did vanish after June 2022.

You nailed this prediction.

[summer8]

I would rather have Ravencoin

I predict Ergo will be victim to ASIC development ... meaning massive hashrate increase before actual adoption

[FP91G]

5.0 Soft-fork Activation
December 7, 2022
Voting concluded at block 857,087 with more than 90% support. Activation of Node 5.0 upgrade will happen at block height 889,856.
https://kryptocal.com/event/82881/5-0-soft-fork-activation


When asked about what kinds of improvements v.5.0 could provide to the blockchain, Chepurnoy offered the following:

“It depends, some contracts are heavily hit by ahead-of-time costing (the protocol [that is currently used]), and so we can see 10x costing improvement there, others not so.”

Ultimately, the goal of this new hybrid costing system is to increase the efficiency of the blockchain (by improving the number of transactions/block), while also reducing the current costing of smart contracts.
https://ergoplatform.org/en/blog/Ergo-Node-v.5.0-The-Next-Evolution-of-the-Ergo-Platform

[OgNasty]

Ravencoin has always been a bit of a darling to me. I like that it seemingly had Overstock’s support at one point and had paid developers working on it. I’ve never even heard of Ergo, so I assume it’s just another shitcoin with a large advertising budget? If it were me and I had to choose between holding those 2 coins, I would mine a more profitable coin and use them to purchase RVN. Better would be to use a site like NiceHash and stack sats…

[FP91G]

Ravencoin has always been a bit of a darling to me. I like that it seemingly had Overstock’s support at one point and had paid developers working on it. I’ve never even heard of Ergo, so I assume it’s just another shitcoin with a large advertising budget? If it were me and I had to choose between holding those 2 coins, I would mine a more profitable coin and use them to purchase RVN. Better would be to use a site like NiceHash and stack sats…

Do you love hot algorithms?
I have always chosen those coins, the mining of which heats up video cards less and has less electricity consumption. Ergo miners have been mining for more than 3 years and the mining algorithm does not overheat video cards much, but I don’t know which coin is better.

[Grim]

Do you love hot algorithms?
I have always chosen those coins, the mining of which heats up video cards less and has less electricity consumption. Ergo miners have been mining for more than 3 years and the mining algorithm does not overheat video cards much, but I don’t know which coin is better.

Do you like shooting your own leg?
Do you love to compete with "hidden" hardware like fpgas and asics?

In order to achieve an egalitarian algorithm you actually WANT your given silicon to be used to its fullest ...

... that means YES the algorithm needs to use as many transistors and memory as possible ...

... which means YES the chip will heat up ...

... which means ProgPow for now is the ONLY way for gpus to stay relevant in mining ...

... which means GPUs, FPGAs and ASICs would run with very similar efficiencies (=egalitarian algo) ...



A low power "GPU algo" will ALWAYS fall victim to fpgas and asics.

[FP91G]

Do you love hot algorithms?
I have always chosen those coins, the mining of which heats up video cards less and has less electricity consumption. Ergo miners have been mining for more than 3 years and the mining algorithm does not overheat video cards much, but I don’t know which coin is better.

Do you like shooting your own leg?
Do you love to compete with "hidden" hardware like fpgas and asics?

In order to achieve an egalitarian algorithm you actually WANT your given silicon to be used to its fullest ...

... that means YES the algorithm needs to use as many transistors and memory as possible ...

... which means YES the chip will heat up ...

... which means ProgPow for now is the ONLY way for gpus to stay relevant in mining ...

... which means GPUs, FPGAs and ASICs would run with very similar efficiencies (=egalitarian algo) ...



A low power "GPU algo" will ALWAYS fall victim to fpgas and asics.

How many coins can you name on the progpow algorithm?
https://wheretomine.io/algorithms/progpow
This is a very small number of coins. If I have a choice, then I will mine coins with a lower power consumption and a less hot algorithm for my video cards. If there is no choice, then this is another problem, and you will have to spend money on an additional cooling system.