Honestly I don't see any new POW projects coming out. Its been like this for many years. This isn't 2015 again where everyday you would go to "Annoucements" section and get to instamine a new coin.
Most projects go to an ERC20 token, and those are only presold. Then if the project launches their own chain, its always POS. One reason for this is due to greed. Why give miners money? Also its due to environmental impacts and how much waste POW coins are creating.
Largest POW besides BTC is probably Litecoin or Dogecoin. 2nd place is probably Ethereum Classic. Hashrate peaked at 300 TH/s and now its below 200 TH/s. Maybe if enough miners give up, then it might be profitable again.
well, technically speaking, will there ever be a minable coin for 0.1+ kwh miners during bear market ? or will we be able to mine during a bull run only ?
what about CPU mining ? is anything mineable now adays ?...
Even in a bull market it'll be tough. Maybe if Elon pumps Dogecoin to like $10 a coin then all the Scrypt ASIC owners will be happy. However I don't see that happening.
For CPU mining there is Monero. However you need a good CPU for that.
Like the Ryzen Threadripper 3970x which is $2000 and gives you like $1/day before power. With a regular CPU you will make probably less than a nickel however.
Times are tough...