After ETH, what will happen to 4G?

The 4G problem that has been going on for a year is finally coming to an end.

After repeatedly extending the life of 4G in Windows system, it can be said that it is now on its last legs. Technology is not omnipotent and it cannot escape the limitation of video memory capacity.

Here are some common 4G questions for new miners.

The reason why 4G cannot mine ETH is that ETH has something called DAG, which grows by 8M (1G=1000M) approximately every 4.5 days. As it grows bigger and bigger, 4G cannot accommodate such a large DAG.

Some people ask, if ETH cannot be mined, can we mine ETC? The answer is no. To be honest, ETC is the authentic one, because ETH is a fork of ETC, ETC came first, and then ETH. ETC's DAG is much larger than ETH's DAG.

However, just a while ago, it was revealed that ETC would reset DAG to allow 3G and 4G cards to participate in ETC mining. Some miners were excited about this, thinking it was a lifeline for 4G, and were even reluctant to sell.

We believe that the problem of ETC is not the size of DAG, but the consensus . Due to the lack of consensus of ETC, if we occasionally see that ETC's revenue is higher than ETH, it will soon collapse without any effort. You know, the existing DAG is very small and there are no less than ten coins with ETC-like algorithms that can be mined with 4G. So why is ETC worth getting excited about after resetting the DAG? Unless some mysterious power is injected.

Some people ask, if ETH cannot be mined, can SERO, BEAM, and XMR be mined? The answer is even less so. The advantage of A card is to mine ethash algorithm. If you switch to mining core coins such as SERO and BEAM, the income will be so low that it will not cover the electricity bill. If it is not suppressed, the power consumption and temperature may be high, and it may even burn the card and the power supply.

This doesn’t work, that doesn’t work, so what should we do? The above is the conclusion made out of consideration for profit, just one person’s opinion. If you are a believer in blockchain, of course you can grab any coin that can be mined and mine it to contribute your own strength to blockchain.

Same 4G, different fate. Some 4G cannot mine ETH on Windows system on October 16, while some are still stable until now, and will have problems in the future. If your 4G is stuck on Windows system and has problems, it is recommended to give up resistance, stop struggling, and find a Linux system (OS) to continue.

However, even if the Linux system (OS) is replaced, 4G cannot be used all the time. It is still limited by the DAG size. According to estimates, it can work until the middle of next month (follow the official account and send "4g" to query). By then, 4G will exit the ETH history stage.

As for the Zombie Mode launched by the lolminer kernel, it is claimed that it can work until February 2021 in the Linux system environment. However, based on its current performance in the Windows system, we believe that it may not be reliable.