ACADEMY
MINING EDITION
MODULE 4
LESSON 4
Future Mining Plans (Governance, Scaling, AI)
What does the future hold for Qubic miners? The project is at the cutting edge of merging blockchain with AI, so there’s a lot to be excited about. In this section, we’ll look at how governance might evolve (who makes the rules for mining and how you can have a say), how Qubic plans to scale as the network grows, and the grand vision involving AI (AIGarth) that all of us miners are helping to build.
Community Governance & Protocol Updates
Qubic is a community-driven project, and this extends to decision-making about the network’s future. Formal governance in Qubic works via proposals and votes by the Computors (Quorum): any community member can suggest changes, there’s discussion, then Computors vote (needing a ⅔ majority of 451/676 to pass major changes) . In practice, many decisions related to mining have been made via community votes or consensus on Discord, later formalized by the core team. For example, when Qubic initiated the Monero dual-mining concept, the community (through its validators) voted on whether to perform certain actions like orphaning outside Monero blocks if Qubic exceeded 51% hashpower . More recently, a vote was held on how to allocate the Monero mining profits going forward – and it was decided to pay those XMR mining rewards directly to Computors/miners rather than doing QUBIC buybacks, in order to boost miner profitability and attract more hashrate . This shows how adaptable the system can be: if the community believes a change will improve mining incentives or network health, they can implement it. As a miner, staying informed via the Qubic Discord’s #governance or #announcements channel is the best way to know what’s brewing. Perhaps in the future, more formal on-chain voting mechanisms will be introduced (Qubic could even use its own quorum for governance voting). The bottom line: the rules of mining – such as algorithms, reward structures, even the number of Computors – are not set in stone. They can evolve, and you can potentially influence them by being an active community member. Governance in Qubic is still young, so there’s opportunity for new voices and ideas to shape the path forward.
Scaling the Network
Qubic has set some eye-popping performance records (15.5 million TPS in testing !) and uses a unique approach with “bare metal” smart contracts in C++ for speed . For miners, “scaling” mostly means scaling the AI and the mining process as the network grows. Right now, the number of Computors is fixed at 676, which has been sufficient so far. As usage increases, there might be discussions on whether to increase that number or introduce sharding or layered computations. However, given Qubic’s architecture, 676 high-performance nodes can already handle an enormous load (the quorum consensus can finalize in under a second due to the small validator set). The main scaling focus is likely on the AI side: AIGarth’s training tasks might get more complex as it evolves, which in turn could require more computational power from miners or more efficient algorithms. The team has shown they’re willing to adjust the mining approach to maximize both decentralization and throughput. For instance, shifting some focus back to CPU mining (with the Monero integration) was partly about scaling out – bringing in a wider base of machines (all those idle CPUs in the world) to contribute . In the future, we might see Qubic integrate with other networks or tasks (some have speculated Qubic could target other PoW coins for “Outsourced Computations” as they did with Monero). Each integration or new AI task would effectively scale the utility of Qubic mining by opening new sources of revenue or new types of work. The project’s founder Sergey I. (CfB) is very ambitious – community chats suggest he might aim for Qubic to demonstrate its dominance in other arenas too (perhaps other algorithms or AI competitions), using the combined power of our miners. While details aren’t confirmed, it’s clear that stagnation is not in the plan: expect Qubic to continually push the envelope of what a decentralized compute network can do.
The AI Future (AIGarth and Beyond)
This is the really exciting part. Qubic miners aren’t just securing a blockchain; we are collectively training an AI named AIGarth. The endgame vision is to achieve a form of decentralized artificial general intelligence (AGI) by 2027 – an AI whose “brain” is spread across thousands of nodes and cannot be controlled or censored by any single authority. Every time your miner completes an AI training iteration, you are contributing a little bit to that evolving intelligence. Today, AIGarth is one model (focused on certain tasks), but the future could see multiple AI models or expanded capabilities. Competing project Bittensor (which is similar in blending AI and blockchain) already has dozens of AI models being trained by its network . Qubic for now has chosen to concentrate all effort on one big brain (AIGarth). In the future, perhaps after reaching some milestones with AIGarth, Qubic could introduce new AI modules or let third-party developers train their own models on the network. In fact, Qubic’s architecture is being built to invite third parties (businesses, universities, etc.) to harness Qubic’s compute power for their own AI tasks via smart contracts . Imagine a research lab being able to tap into Qubic’s global miner network to run climate simulations or protein folding, with miners getting paid for that work – all secured by Qubic’s consensus. That’s a possible future scenario.
Already, the Monero “custom mining” proved that Qubic can direct its mining power to external purposes and still benefit the ecosystem . Going forward, “Outsourced Computations” might extend to non-crypto tasks. There’s mention of Oracle Machines under development to feed real-world data securely into Qubic , which would be essential if, say, a hospital wants to use Qubic to train a medical AI on their data in a private yet decentralized way. All this suggests that Qubic mining could evolve from purely mining QUBIC/AIGarth to becoming a decentralized cloud computing service. For miners, that potentially means a wider variety of workloads (maybe one day you choose which types of tasks you want to contribute to) and possibly multiple income streams (e.g., getting paid by external contract issuers in QU for doing their computation). It’s an exciting prospect: your mining rig could be curing cancer or forecasting weather, not just hashing blocks.
Of course, this is a forward-looking outlook. Today’s reality is that Qubic is focusing on strengthening AIGarth and proving that a blockchain can successfully train an AI at scale. The next big milestones might include: improvements to AIGarth’s learning algorithms (making uPoW even more efficient), refining the reward mechanisms to ensure miners are incentivized to stick around (the Monero profit distribution change was one such tweak ), possibly expanding the Computor set or adjusting the hardware balance (if GPU mining becomes too dominant, they might tweak algorithms to re-favor CPUs again, and vice versa – we already saw one cycle of CPU → GPU → CPU+Monero shift ). The governance will also mature – expect more formalization around how proposals are made and implemented, especially as Qubic’s user base grows.
In summary, the future of Qubic mining looks dynamic and full of innovation. Unlike Bitcoin mining which is relatively static at this point, Qubic miners must be ready to adapt and learn. That’s part of the fun! By participating now, you’re not only earning rewards but also helping shape a novel paradigm: a decentralized supercomputer that grows smarter and more powerful each week. And as Qubic’s slogan might as well be: Turning Energy into Intelligence , you can take pride that your kilowatts are going into something more meaningful than just securing transactions – they’re driving forward an open AI that could one day benefit everyone.