Qubic: Turning Every CPU Cycle Into Real-World Value

How the emerging blockchain Qubic reinvented mining, outperforms Monero in profitability, and paves the way for decentralized AI, all explained in simple terms for beginners.

Mining Landscape in 2025: Immense Potential, Even Greater Waste

If you’ve heard that “Bitcoin wastes electricity,” you already know the central critique of classic Proof of Work (PoW): most energy secures the chain but produces nothing else.
By mid-2025, miners relentlessly chase coins whose rewards still cover the electricity bill, but most networks pay them only in freshly issued tokens (hence inflationary).

Qubic reverses this pattern. In one month, it went from anonymity to “the most profitable crypto a CPU miner can operate“, while performing useful work rather than a mere mathematical tug-of-war.

Qubic in One Minute

Key Points for Beginners:

• High-speed Layer 1: Audited by CertiK as “world’s fastest blockchain“.
• Monero (XMR) & Tari merge-mining: Your CPU performs two tasks in parallel.
• Deflationary tokenomics: Every reward is sold for USDT, used to buy $QUBIC, then burned, reducing supply with each block.

What is “Useful Proof of Work”?

Imagine classic PoW as millions of computers solving a giant Sudoku just to prove they tried. Useful Proof of Work asks: “why not solve a problem that has real use?“

Qubic’s answer today is Monero mining

The protocol redirects your surplus CPU cycles to Monero’s RandomX algorithm. As Monero is a currency with market value, block rewards arrive in XMR — external value, not self-created inflation.

These coins are then:

1. Exchanged for USDT
2. Used to buy $QUBIC on the market
3. Burned permanently

Result: a triple win:

• Miners: earn more than mining Monero alone.
• Investors: benefit from constant buying pressure and reduced supply.
• The planet: sees computing power put to good use.

Show Me the Money: Why Qubic Dominates Profits in 2025

During epoch 163 (May 28 – June 4, 2025):

• Qubic: $3.13/day profit on a Ryzen 7950X
• Tari (merge-mined): $1.65/day
• Monero alone: $0.64/day

Even after the initial surge, Qubic miners maintain >$2/day, which is 50% more than the XMR + Tari duo mined separately.

Profitability has grown alongside real network influence: from <2% to >25% of Monero’s global hashrate in a few weeks.

Reminder: “Hashrate” means the total computing power securing Monero. Surpassing 10% means Qubic miners have become a key player in the whole XMR ecosystem, proving that uPoW is not theory but infrastructure already in service.

The Burn Engine: Why Less Means More

Most blockchains mint tokens to reward miners, causing selling pressure. Qubic does the opposite:

External profit → buy QUBIC → burn → increased scarcity

Each cycle removes tokens from circulation, making those you hold rarer. The founder Come-from-Beyond summed it up: “The proof of concept is that profit will be used to buy QUBIC and burn them.”

This loop aligns everyone’s interests:

• Miners: more XMR/Tari production → more burn → stronger price
• Hodlers: want miners to increase hashrate → more burn → stronger price

Instead of the usual miners vs investors conflict, both camps push in the same direction.

Beyond Blocks: The Road to Decentralized AI

Monero merge-mining is just the first step. Qubic’s architecture was designed from the start for distributed computing, especially AI tasks:

1. Large-scale model training: Direct surplus CPUs to train language or vision models.
2. Selling computing power to companies: Rent available power directly to businesses.
3. Autonomous agents: Power trading bots like Anna Aigarth, mentioned by the team.

Each future task can feed the same value loop (profit → buy → burn), turning Qubic into a universal clearinghouse for CPU cycles that pay the chain instead of draining it.

Conclusion

Qubic turns mining from a cost center into a value engine. For the first time, a CPU cycle can secure a chain, generate external income, and make the native token rarer. Whether you’re a hobbyist miner, curious investor, or tech enthusiast, Qubic concretely proves that blockchain consensus can produce far more than useless hashes.

The network’s meteoric rise to over 10% of Monero’s hashrate and its position as the most profitable coin prove the economy works today. The next step toward decentralized AI could make 2025 the year when Qubic is not just seen as “the best coin to mine”, but as the moment PoW transitioned from energy sink to a global utility grid.

More info: www.qubic.org

Theia P.