@bunnychum. You are a new discovery for me. This is the best explanation I have found about the up coming forks.
I have a question, - the anawer seems to be obvious - but I would like a little more granularity:
You wrote:
Does this mean that I could start mining on my home PC or Mac, or even better become a node? (Maybe that’s the same thing?).
Or is the reality that in practice I would be overwhelmed by millions of other miners and I would never actually earn anything?
@swissclive this is an excellent question actually... Let me try my best to answer this...
According to me it always depends upon which GPU hardware you are choosing to mine on your PC or Mac and respectively, how much MH/s it generates...
Since Equihash is ASIC proof, we can fairly say that there are very less chances for mining difficulties to go way up higher like whats happening with Bitcoin and Dash... Although even if does go higher it would be distributed, would not happen something like ASICs are coming with more and more speed...
Hope that answers your question, please let me know if i missed something...