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Ethereum Classic ASIC Miner Profitability Calculator
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| Model |
Profitability
Profit
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|---|---|
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Jasminer X44-P
Etchash · 23.4GH/s
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$12.09
/day
|
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Bombax EZ100 PRO
Etchash · 15.5GH/s
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$5.30
/day
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Bombax EZ100
Etchash · 12.5GH/s
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$4.66
/day
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IPollo V2
Etchash · 10GH/s
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$4.38
/day
|
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Bitmain Antminer E11
Etchash · 9.5GH/s
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$2.15
/day
|
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Bitmain Antminer E11
Etchash · 9GH/s
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$2.04
/day
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IPollo V2H
Etchash · 3.4GH/s
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$1.56
/day
|
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Bombax EZ 100
Etchash · 3800MH/s
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$1.30
/day
|
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Bombax Miner EZ100-C
Etchash · 3800MH/s
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$1.30
/day
|
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Jasminer X16-P
Etchash · 5.8GH/s
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$0.56
/day
|
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IPollo V2X
Etchash · 1.2GH/s
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$0.55
/day
|
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Jasminer X16-Q PRO - 8GB
Etchash · 2050MH/s
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$0.43
/day
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Jasminer X16-QE - 6GB
Etchash · 1750MH/s
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$0.27
/day
|
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Jasminer X16-Q Jasminer
Etchash · 1.95GH/s
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$0.23
/day
|
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Jasminer X4 BRICK
Etchash · 65MH/s
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$-0.01
/day
|
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How Ethereum Classic became an ASIC chain
Etchash moves like a disciplined swarm through silicon corridors, a memory-hard Proof of Work designed for Ethereum Classic that keeps GPU miners alive and in step. It arrived in November 2020 with the Thanos Upgrade under ECIP-1099, which reset and slowed the DAG so rigs with 3GB and 4GB of VRAM could rejoin the hunt. The algorithm is a deliberate evolution of Ethash and keeps the high memory bandwidth focus that forces work to live in VRAM rather than in custom logic. It changes the epoch schedule to slow dataset expansion and stretch hardware lifespans. This shift reduces forced upgrades and steadies participation across mid-tier and older GPUs. The DAG and cache remain central as the engine that drives pseudo-random memory access and throttles compute-heavy tricks. That design resists ASIC dominance and blunts the influence of hash power rental services, raising the effort required to stage a coordinated attack. More accessible mining deepens the pool of independent operators and lifts the cost of 51% attacks through broader distribution of hashrate. Etchash preserves the familiar workflow for Ethash miners yet lowers the resource gradient so entry remains practical. It has been picked up by some forks, including EthereumPoW, which anchors it within the wider Ethash family. Miners watch VRAM headroom and memory bandwidth because those factors shape hashrate more than raw core clocks. Stable drivers, tuned memory timings, and up-to-date mining software help maintain efficiency as epochs advance. The slower DAG growth extends the useful life of 4GB cards far beyond what the original Ethash allowed. This keeps the network defended by many hands instead of a few machine lords. Profitability can be gauged with a miner calculator that models hashrate, power draw, and difficulty over time. In practice the chain feels like a guarded city where each block is a gate and every GPU is a sentinel that refuses to stop shuffling forward.
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2015
Ethash launches with Ethereum
A memory-hard algorithm built around a growing dataset, the DAG, so that graphics cards rather than early ASICs would secure the chain.
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2016
Ethereum Classic keeps the original chain
After the DAO fork, the chain that refused to rewrite history continued as Ethereum Classic, still mined with Ethash.
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2020
Etchash: the DAG growth is slowed
ETC changed the epoch length so the dataset grows more slowly, keeping older 4 GB cards and fixed-memory ASICs viable for years longer.
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2022
The Merge sends Ethereum hashrate looking for a home
Ethereum stopped mining. Etchash became the largest remaining chain for the same hardware, and its network hashrate multiplied within weeks.
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Now
The Etchash ASIC era
Purpose-built Etchash miners with the DAG in on-board memory now dominate; graphics cards compete only where power is nearly free. The table above is that market.
Memory-hard on purpose, and what that does to an ASIC
Etchash forces every hash to read from a multi-gigabyte dataset, so an Etchash ASIC is really a memory subsystem with a small amount of logic attached. That is why these miners are rated in gigahashes rather than terahashes, and why their efficiency is written in joules per gigahash.
The upside of a memory-bound design is that the hardware ages slowly: bandwidth improves far more gradually than raw logic, so an Etchash unit from a few years ago is much closer to today's flagship than a Bitcoin miner of the same age would be. The downside is that a whole generation can be made obsolete by a change to the dataset rules, which is exactly what the 2020 epoch change was designed to avoid.
Ethereum Classic has a fixed monetary policy that reduces the block reward by twenty percent roughly every two years. Unlike Bitcoin's halvings, it is gentle enough that the profitability column moves mostly with the ETC price and the network hashrate rather than with the emission schedule.
Want plain ETC income for a hashrate you already own? Open the Ethereum Classic mining profitability calculator →
- 1 0.46 J/MH
- 2 108.97 J/GH
- 3 137.50 J/GH
- 4 139.71 J/GH
- 5 150.00 J/GH
About the Etchash algorithm
A crucial yet often overlooked feature of Ethash is its epoch-based, dynamic DAG (Directed Acyclic Graph), regenerated every 30,000 blocks-roughly every five days on Ethereum Classic-compelling miners to continually load a multi‑gigabyte dataset derived from block-height seeds; this architecture enforces pseudo-random memory walks driven by Keccak-based mixes and FNV permutations, making memory bandwidth and latency, not raw core frequency, the principal determinants of hashrate, thereby compressing the advantage of specialized ASICs and reinforcing GPU competitiveness as DAG growth pressures low‑VRAM cards and penalizes stagnant hardware. To recalibrate that pressure and broaden participation, Ethereum Classic introduced Etchash in November 2020 via the Thanos Upgrade (ECIP‑1099), reducing the effective DAG size and slowing its growth so that 3 GB and 4 GB GPUs could re-enter the field, a parameter shift that expanded the miner base, diluted single-operator influence, and raised the cost and complexity of renting hash power for short-lived majority attacks; Etchash preserves the Ethash grammar of epochs, light caches, and verifiable mining while lowering resource intensity, and its parameters have informed other projects such as EthereumPoW, anchoring it within the Ethash family. Because the DAG and its light cache are epoch-bound and regenerated from deterministic seeds, large-scale precomputation and simple brute-forcing are uneconomic, and frequent updates discipline hardware rent-seeking by curbing long-duration dominance; in practice, GPUs with high memory throughput, adequate VRAM headroom, and efficient power curves prevail, and tuning favors memory overclocks, core undervolting, and thermal stability, since the algorithm’s randomized access patterns saturate memory interfaces. The net effect is an ASIC-resistant, memory-hard model that constrains the economies of massive farms, distributes mining more evenly, and hardens validation against tampering-an engineered equilibrium where modern computation and a measured touch of alchemy keep time together.
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