It should go without saying: Ether and Ethereum are on a path to change the internet. With the news of the Casper and Sharding upgrades, one should be very reluctant to give up their Ether. Don’t let people trick you into giving it to them for their made up tokens!! You can still earn valuable ERC20 tokens and hold onto your Ether stack. Here is how:

https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-918

EIP918 introduced a standard for mined tokens and there are a lot of them now! There are over 10 mining pools, over 5 flavors of open source token mining software (GPUs work best), and the different tokens are all compatible with ForkDelta, MetaMask, Parity, and other Ethereum services.

Here’s are some mineable tokens:

A new remix on Dogecoin which is a lot more pro-yarn than pro-bone allows anyone to PoW mine the currency, except it’s an Ethereum token. You also receive a token whenever you make a transfer! This covers fees.

2) 0xbitcoin — Http://0xbitcoin.org

A recreation of Bitcoin in Solidity, boasting the highest mining hashrate and largest community of the mineable ERC20 tokens.

3) Kiwi — https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3666476.0

A mined utility token with no ICO that will power fund raising services via Liberation Online.

Typically, all you need to do is visit a pool website for the associated token and follow the instructions there to start mining !! Now you can use the hardware you already have to accumulate the ERC20 tokens thay you want and you can hold on to all of your precious ETH. HAPPY HODLING