Learn how to mine Kadena using Goldshell KD5 ASIC miner. Only coin that can be mined with Goldshell KD5 miner is Kadena (KDA). It is as of writing this article the top of the line Kadena mining ASIC miner. I was able to purchase a KD5 October batch from Alibaba for $10000+ per miner. It is great investment gamble I am willing to take give ROI is 150 days. I am hoping cryptocurrency market will not tank for next 150 days so I can recover my initial investment to break even.
Goldshell KD5 Miner Specification:
KD5 Kadena miner from manufacturer Goldshell was first released on March 2021 that has maximum hashrate of 18Th/s. It weights about 8.5kg. I consumes 2250 Watts with voltages between 176 Volts to 264 Volts. This means you will need 220 Volts 2 phase power to run in the US. Your standard 110 Volts outlets will not work. KD5's noise level is 80db with 2 fans. This is compare to 72 dB for noisy Bitmain's Antminer L3+ with single fan. I would not recommend running KD5 miner inside your home. It will be too loud.
Goldshell KD5 Mining Setup and Pools:
Kadena can be efficiently mined with ASIC miners. Kadena cannot be efficiently mined with CPUs, GPUs and FPGA miners. We recommend Kadena full node wallet. After installing it, click Receive to get your new wallet address. You can also choose an exchange, such as Hotbit or Bittrex. I will provide link to sign up for Hotbit and Bittrex if you do not have one.
Goldshell KD5 can be mined from Asic f2pool.io pool. You’ll need to enter the following information in your mining device:
URL: stratum+tcp://kda.f2pool.com:5400
Username: walletAddress.workerName
Password: Your choice
Type of Coin to Mine and Profitability:
Only coin that can be mined with Goldshell KD5 is Kadena (KDA). This is great risk you take. If Goldshell or other manifacture in the near future release Kadena based algorithm miners, your profitability will drop like a rock. Be warned that is great risk you take by buying a single minable coin. Many manifactures mostly Bitmain is very greedy and known to sell thousands of miners in batches. They do not care about profitablity of their customers. They just want to sell as many miners as possible to make money for themselves.
Kadena Daily Profitability:
With today's KDA price of 1.9 USD and KDA network hashrate of 31.27 PHash/sec, you can earn 2 KDA per hour and 49.5 KDA per day at estimated income of $95.9 USD. With electricity cost of $0.10 USD per Kilowatt hour, you will be spending $5.40 on electricity per day. This reduces your daily profit to $90.5. Remember as time goes on KDA network hash rate is going to go up. This will reduced how much KDA you earn per day. Also, given as of shooting this video we are nearing the cryptocurrency bull run, expect the price of KDA tokens to drop as end of the cryptocurrency bull run.
Where the buy Kadena KD5 Miners:
If you want to buy this miner first you want to check Goldshell original OEM manufacture because price is cheapest with manufacture. In this case I would first try Goldshell website for price. It was listed as $8999 initially released on March 2021. As of shooting this video it is old sold out. Many OEM known to ship batches of 10,000 or so units on each shipping orders. One think I need to warn you that when worst case scenario 10,000 units hit the Kadena network within few days of shipping, network difficulty will shoot thru the roof and your profits will drop like a rock. You will be holding a expensive brick or heat that is worthless to mine. If you want to find a miner right now, buy a used one from Alibaba. Always negotiate for better price and only pay with Alibaba Trade Assurance supported payments. Never pay with cryptocurrencies because of scammers out there. Alibaba reseller are going to markup the price above Bitmain website price. Currently sellers on Alibaba asking $8000. You can always negotiate prices and try to drop the price. However, make sure you get a operational video of miner hashing screen and miner operation video. I bought a used miner from Alibaba, it was really banged up. I learned my lesson. It had screws missing. Fans were broken during shipping. One shipped had trojan horse virus on it. I had to re-flash to controller boards to wipeout virus completely. Alibaba sellers do not believe in quality as those in eBay or Amazon. Cheap price you pay in Alibaba, you can expect miners those that banged out. When asking for miners, make sure ask for miners that are refurbish quality used ones. I have a link below for my Alibaba video on more about payment methods.
I will provide a video of my actual Kadena ASIC miner setting up for mining below:
