2025 begins with profitable mining of these cryptocurrencies

Looking ahead to 2025, the cryptoassets that begin this new cycle as the most profitable options for cryptocurrency mining are Dogecoin (DOGE), Alephium (ALPH), Fractal Bitcoin (FB), Bitcoin (BTC) and the merged mining of these last two. According to the model of hardware selected, the levels of income acquired will be different.

1- Merged Bitcoin and Fractal Bitcoin Mining

Bitcoin and Fractal Bitcoin mining allows miners to take advantage of a practice known as merge mining (merged mining). This combination is currently the option with the highest mining profitability, surpassing other Proof of Work cryptocurrencies (PoW) like Dogecoin and Alephium.

By implementing this technique, miners interested in it can generate simultaneous income from both networks without incurring greater energy consumption and using the same equipment. ASIC (Specific Application Integrated Circuits).

He ASIC The most profitable for BTC and FB is the Bitmain Antminer S21E XP Hyd 3U, which produces net income of $23.30 per day when mining Bitcoin and $27.44 when mining Fractal Bitcoin, according to the site Whattomine.

That is to say, if a miner opted for the merged mining of these two cryptoassets, they would currently obtain a return above the 50 dollars net daily using this Bitmain miner.

These calculations were prepared considering an electricity cost of 0.10 USD/Kw/h.

This team of hardwarelaunched in November 2024, reaches computing power (hashrate) de 860.00 TH/s (terahashes per second) with an electricity consumption of 11,180 watts. Its market value is almost $20,000.

Are there less expensive ASIC options for BTC and FB merged mining?

Certainly, spending almost $20,000 for a piece of equipment ASIC It is a cost that many miners could not afford (especially solo miners).

Nevertheless, There are some other options that offer considerable profits.

The Bitmain Antminer S21 XP Hydro, available from September 2024, has a power of hash de 473.00 TH/s (terahashes per second) and consumes 5,676 watts, thus producing net $17.33 with FB and $14 with BTC.

This ASIC, costing $13,400, produces through fused mining an average of 31 net dollars daily.

A third alternative is the Bitmain Antminer S21 Hydro, launched in April 2024, with a processing power of 335 TH/s (terahashes per second) and a consumption of 5,360 watts.

It is ASIC generates approximately $9.06 net daily for FB mining and $6.66 daily for BTC, resulting in a total for merged mining of almost 16 dollars net dailyaccording to Whattomine data.

This mining equipment is the most accessible of the most profitable, with a market price of $7,100.

Finally, a fourth option could be the Whatsminer M66S+ MicroBT ASIC, launched on the market in July 2024. This equipment, with a rate of hash de 318.00 Th/s (terahashes per second) and with a power consumption of 4975 watts, it costs about $8,665.

This option currently offers a profitability similar to that of the last reviewed Bitmain, achieving a daily net $8.87 in FB mining and $6.99 in the case of BTC, according to Whattomine. Thus, through merged mining, a total of almost 16 net dollars per day would result.

Although merge mining can be carried out by solo miners, in practice it can involve a somewhat more complex setup process than mining a single cryptocurrency.

Thus, to carry out this practice, the pools mining That allow it are the most attractive option, since they increase the probability of obtaining constant rewards by combining the computing power of multiple participants.

Among some pools That allow merged mining of Bitcoin and Fractal Bitcoin are Binance Pool, ViaBTC and F2pool.

What is merged mining and how does it work?

The merged mining It is a process that allows mining two or more cryptocurrencies simultaneously using the same computing power. For this to be possible, networks must share the same cryptographic algorithm (such as SHA-256 in the case of BTC and FB) and have a compatibility relationship at the block structure level.

The merged mining mechanism is based on the use of auxiliary blocks. The miner uses his hashrate (computing power) to solve the cryptographic problem on the main network, such as Bitcoin.

At the same time, the work done is reused to validate blocks on a compatible secondary network (such as Fractal Bitcoin).

If the mined block meets the mainnet difficulty requirements, the miner receives rewards in Bitcoin. If you also satisfy the secondary network difficulty, you get additional rewards in Fractal Bitcoin.

In this way, miners, if market conditions allow, would maximize their income without increasing electricity consumption or investment in hardwaresince the same computational effort is used in both networks.

3- Dogecoin Mining

When it comes to mining a single cryptocurrency, Dogecoin is the most profitable currently.

To mine DOGE, the Bitmain Antminer L9, launched in May 2024, stands out as the most profitable option. This equipment has a version with a power of 17.60 GH/s (gigahashes per second) and an electrical consumption of 3,260 watts.

Its market price is $13,500 and it generates an average of 32 net dollars dailyaccording to Whattomine.

Starting in March 2025, the ElphaPex DG Hydro 1 will be available, offering 20.00 GH/s (gigahashes per second) of power and with a consumption of 6,200 watts.

This ASIC, valued at $9,120, would generate approximately a net average of $30 daily in DOGE, positioning itself as a slightly more profitable alternative, but with a lower initial investment.

Additionally, Dogecoin mining has two other ASICs that currently offer high returns compared to other crypto assets.

These are the VolcMiner D1, which generates almost 30 dollars net daily, and the Bitmain Antminer L9 in its 16 Gh/s version (gigahashes per second) of computational power, which reaches a figure greater than 28 net dollars per day, according to Whattomine.

Like Bitcoin and Fractal Bitcoin, Dogecoin includes the option of fusion mining with other mineable coins. In this case, DOGE’s cryptographic algorithm is Scrypt, different from BTC and FB’s SHA-256.

For example, Litecoin (LTC), with which it shares the use of Scrypt, is one of the best-known possibilities, although this alternative is currently not profitable, given the current low performance of LTC mining.

3- Alephium Mining

In the case of Alephium, the Bitmain Antminer AL1 PRO, launched in August 2024, leads profitability with a power of 16.60 TH/s (terahashes per second) and a consumption of 3,730 watts. This equipment has a market price of $11,300 and offers daily net profits of almost 27 dollars.

A slightly more affordable option is the Bitmain Antminer AL1, also available from August 2024, with a rate of hash of 15.60 TH/s and an electrical consumption of 3,510 watts. This equipment generates 25 net dollars daily and its cost is $9,300.

The algorithm intended for ALPH mining is Blake3 and, as NoticiasVE reported in the past, under the same network conditions, Alephium uses “1/8 of the energy used with Bitcoin.”

4- Individual Fractal Bitcoin and Bitcoin Mining

Ultimately, if a miner wanted to carry out individual mining of Fractal Bitcoin or Bitcoin without using merged mining of both, Fractal Bitcoin currently has a higher individual profitability.

Among the ASICs detailed at the beginning of the article, the most profitable generates at the time of this writing almost 4 dollars more in daily net income in favor of FB.

Profitability in cryptocurrency mining with ASIC It depends on factors such as computing power, electrical consumption, equipment costs, network difficulty and the price of the currency.

Despite not being the most profitable option currently, Bitcoin continues to be the network most chosen by miners globally.

Aspects such as the security of this network, backed by the greatest hashrate in the world (789 EH/s), a massive adoption of BTC and a market capitalization that exceeds any other digital asset, consolidate Bitcoin as the reference standard in the industry, even against temporarily more profitable options.

Cryptocurrency mining, volatile like themselves

Additionally, some cryptocurrencies could be highlighted that, although they are less profitable than those described in this article, have a hashrate high, which would indicate that the miners are betting on them.

Such is the case of Kaspa (KAS). At the time of this writing, the hashrate total of this network is 1.33 EH/s (exahashes per second), having grown noticeably during 2024.

This cryptocurrency uses the kHeavyHash cryptographic algorithm and was mined with GPU (graphics processing cards) until their first ones began to hit the market in mid-2023. ASIC specialists.

In January 2024, NoticiasVE reported when KAS mining generated profits of up to $100 a day with the first ASICs. However, given the increase in hashrate, product of the insertion of more miners with ASICs, which have gradually displaced those that use GPUsalso increased the difficulty of its mining.

This, added to the fact that, from July 2024 until the beginning of November, KAS had a large decline in its price, led to the current ASIC most profitable of this token just generate $6 daily net incomeaccording to Whattomine.

Although its price has recovered ground since the beginning of November, it is still far from the highest price seen in July 2024, when it marked $0.20, according to CoinMarketCap.

It is also worth clarifying that a hashrate higher equals a more secure network against possible attacks. This would make it more reliable, despite the circumstantial profitability.

Like Kaspa, other networks can be pointed out such as Ethereum Classic (ETC) in which miners are participating.

This chain, which uses the Ethash4G mining algorithm, has a hash total of 245.79 TH/s (terahashes per second), having grown steadily since April 2023. Thanks to the rebound in the price of your token native since the beginning of November 2024, ETC mining grew in profitability.

At the time of this article, ETC has two miners that produce daily net income of around 18 and 15 dollarsaccording to Whatttomine.

Ultimately, and when it comes to mining with GPU, it is worth noting that, as reported by NoticiasVE, in recent weeks mining Aleo (ALEO) with GPU became the most profitable option.

Its daily net profits were around $1.22 daily net profits as of December 16, 2024, although 5 days later, due to a drop in the market value of the ALEO token, its mining income is at 0.83 daily net dollars.