A higher hashrate means more computing power is required to verify and add transactions to that cryptocurrency’s blockchain . This makes that cryptocurrency more secure because it would take more miners—and cost more in energy and time—to take over the network.
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Bitcoin is still the most profitable coin to mine with an ASIC, but not GPU. Bitcoin GPU mining is not profitable currently even with a mining pool. But you can mine with pools that allow you to contribute the hash rate to mine other crypto and get rewarded in Bitcoin.
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