Take a look at OP. I already have a bag, but since the ETH dencun upgrade OP has the cheapest fees of all ETH Layer2s, and receives a lot of the volume.
It already posted new highs, but has pulled back a bit. Looks primed for a new move up.
This is what I look for in coins. called a 3 tap.
curve 1: makes a low.
curve 2: sweeps previous low
curve 3: retraces back to an area around curve 1.
its a strong indicator of a reversal(aka end of downtrend)
You can mine this coin and it doesnt seem PC spec driven at all.
I have this running on 2 boxes now, and made $1 in the last 2 hours roughly. took time to set up the second box so 0.50/hr isnt accurate, but man its good.
Everyone still expects SOL to at minimum hit $250 USD. SO far its been the main coin for memes and other projects. The cheapest coin now for transfers.
If we look back and last cycles top coin/chain for memes, due to cheap fees(which is basically considered expensive now), we look at BNB/BSC.
Now, SOL for sure wont do 10000%, but thats the power of being the “it” coin/chain.
I still havent sold a single SOL and im up 500%.
What’s that vs the electric cost?
Its not really performing much by way of calculations. I am running it in a Ubuntu VM and VirtualBox is only using 2.9% of CPU. The cost appears to be no different than generally using a PC.
There is a cost associated with SOL transaction fees. For that $6.71, it cost me $1.50 in SOL.
You could spend $1000 on a good GPU and only pull in 0.50/day using it to mine.
Just remember, SOL is now what ETH was last run. the new faster/better/stronger kid on the block that was already established. even ETH got hacked and had downtime issue then.
Before last cycle, there was BTC and ETH. Last cycle numerous Layer 1s came on the market, including SOL. SOL has beaten them all. ALGO sucks, ADA sucks, XRP sucks, etc, etc, etc
One that will do well this year is Base. Its a Layer 2 on ETH, created by Coinbase. There is no native coin, but Coinbase brings in millions in revenue on fees. Such a smart move by them.
This dip is a gift for buying. I am buying FTM, RNDR, SOL weekly. Dont expect a boom on Apr 19/20 at the halving. Summers are typically stale for action and fall is where things typically move up.
Pre having, miners got 6.25BTC, about $400k, plus transaction fees, which were minimal.
Post halving they get 3.125BTC, about $200k, plus an insane amount from transaction fees, which I’ve been hearing come to a total about about $1 million per block.
So even considering pre halving gains, they have increased revenue by 250%.