RE: Idea: Figure out how to mine a very unpopular currency so you don't have to share the mining task with others?

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Idea: Figure out how to mine a very unpopular currency so you don't have to share the mining task with others?

in cryptocurrency •  7 years ago 

Are you sure that there aren't unpopular coins that are very profitable when mining just because you don't have any one else competing with you at mining them?

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In theory maybe. But the thing that makes currencies valuable is having people use them, or in other words, popularity. So if no one is mining or using a currency, it will have no value.

For example, if you built a product that no one else builds you won't be able to sell it unless other people want it. So unless you find something that people want they just don't know it yet, you would be wasting your time.

So if you find a currency that is unpopular now but you think that in the future it will be, you could mine it (or buy it) and hold it until it gets more valuable.

There are a few websites that calculate how profitable it is to mine different cryptocurrencies. If there was a currency that was extra profitable, it would show up at the top of these lists and people would start mining them until it wasn't profitable anymore.

Here is an example website.

https://www.coinwarz.com/cryptocurrency

Hope this helps, sorry if I'm confusing. :)