Was most of Kaspa's supply mined using consumer hardware?

Yes — approximately 76% of all KAS had already been mined by January 2024 using widely available consumer hardware. Kaspa's emission schedule was designed to front-load distribution during the GPU-mining era (2021–2023), before specialized ASIC hardware entered the market. GPUs are consumer graphics cards that many people already owned, meaning thousands of individual miners worldwide could participate competitively rather than only well-funded industrial operations. For a beginner, this matters because it means most of Kaspa's supply reached the market during the period when the hardware barrier to entry was lowest, distributing coins across a broad base of miners rather than concentrating them among a few ASIC operators.