{"id":9033,"date":"2022-11-20T17:44:51","date_gmt":"2022-11-20T14:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crypto-mining.blog\/?p=9033"},"modified":"2026-02-07T09:44:01","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T06:44:01","slug":"kaspa-kas-what-is-it-and-how-does-it-mine-on-kheavyhash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crypto-mining.blog\/en\/cryptocurrencies\/kaspa-kas-what-is-it-and-how-does-it-mine-on-kheavyhash\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaspa (KAS) – What is it and how does it mine on kHeavyhash?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kaspa (KAS) – What is it and how to mine?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Kaspa is currently the fastest proof-of-work coin in existence that can be mined while remaining decentralized. BlockDAG’s high block rate architecture provides greater decentralization of mining and enables efficient solo mining at lower hash rates. Kaspa, launched in November 2021 with no pre-mining, zero pre-sale or coin distribution, is 100% decentralized, open source and community driven. Kaspa has a total supply of 28.7 billion coins with an issuance schedule that is halved once a year by a smooth monthly reduction at a ratio of (1\/2)^(1\/12). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kaspa mining is based on kHeavyHash, a modified form of the HeavyHash algorithm, ready for an “optical miner. kHeavyhash uses matrix multiplication, which is encapsulated in 2 keccac. kHeavyHash is energy efficient, kernel dominated and can be successfully mined using GPUs, FPGAs and future specialized mining hardware.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kaspa (KAS) is a very interesting crypto project that has largely gone unnoticed, but lately it is starting to generate well-deserved interest. KAS is a proof-of-work cryptocurrency that implements the GHOSTDAG protocol, a protocol that does not separate blocks created in parallel, but allows them to coexist and order them by consensus. This generalization of the Nakamoto consensus ensures secure operation while maintaining a very high block rate (currently one block per second, target 32 blocks per second, with the prospect of 100 blocks per second) and minimal confirmation times, in which Internet latency prevails.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kaspa (KAS), which is a PoW coin, can be mined and mined based on kHeavyHash., a modified form of the HeavyHash algorithm, ready for optical mining. kHeavyhash uses matrix multiplication, which is encapsulated in 2 keccac. kHeavyHash is energy efficient, with a dominant core (requires a higher GPU clock speed and is not as memory dependent) and can be successfully mined using a GPU with FPGA and future dedicated mining hardware, which is also possible in the future. Kaspa’s blockDAG architecture, with its high block rate, provides greater decentralization of mining and enables efficient solo mining even at lower hash rates. KAS was launched in November 2021 with no pre-mining, no pre-sales and no coin distribution. Kaspa’s total supply is 28.7 billion coins with an issuance schedule that is halved once a year by a smooth monthly reduction at a ratio of (1\/2)^(1\/12). The current award per block is 329.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kaspa (KAS) can be mined on several mining pools, the largest of which is WoolyPooly<\/a><\/noindex>, although you you might want to check some of the smaller ones to allocate hashrate, like ACC Pool<\/a><\/noindex> and HashPool<\/a><\/noindex> . Ego can be mined on both AMD and Nvidia GPUs with a number of popular miners that support the kHeavyHash algorithm that the coin uses, such as LolMiner<\/a>, GMiner<\/a>, BZminer<\/a>, SRBminer<\/a>, Team Red Miner <\/a> and KaspaMiner<\/a><\/noindex>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our preferred GPU miners for Nvidia GPUs are LolMiner and GMiner, and you can make sure that you have more recent video drivers for maximum performance. You may also want to lower the memory clock speed and increase the GPU clock speed because this is a GPU-intensive algorithm, and higher GPU clock speeds and increased power limits will give you a much bigger performance boost than overclocking the memory. This also means that the power consumption of GPU mining farms optimized for Kaspa mining will be higher than what you used for Ethash\/ETChash mining, although you can stay at the same lower power levels with a slightly lower hash rate, of course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Several crypto exchanges already support KAS trading, including TxBit , ExBitron , MexC and TradeOgre . In the last few days there has been a surge of interest and a slight increase in prices, so the profitability of mining has also increased, as Kaspa has made the list of the most profitable coins to be mined at the moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kaspa Wallet KAS<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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You need a KAS address and a Kaspa Wallet to receive mining rewards and store your KAS. There are currently 3 different types of wallet available: a Kaspa web wallet, a desktop wallet, and a Kaspa command line wallet. If you want to mine alone, you’ll need a full node client, which we’ll talk about later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

KAS Wallets:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n