
Dogecoin (DOGE) mining profitability up until October 10, 2021
electricity consumption during this process, transaction fees or whether the hardware used is efficient or not.
The mining of Dogecoin became increasingly profitable in 2021, reaching the highest revenue figures since early 2018. This follows after a surge of activity in the cryptocurrency due to comments from Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who remarked on Twitter that people should invest in this digital currency. During the mining of cryptocurrencies, a computer is trying to solve complicated logic puzzles to verify transactions in the blockchain. When this process is completed, the miner receives cryptocurrency as a block reward. The underlying dynamic is that machines with more computing power - or hashrate - are likely to solve more puzzles, and therefore mine more cryptocurrencies. Whether a miner can make money with this depends on various costs such as