is dual Ethash mining possible?

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PontiacGTX (OP)

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September 02, 2016, 02:09:17 PM

I have seen ethereum and similar coin are good for mining with GPUs but Can a miner program do same algorythm with different coins at the same time?

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September 02, 2016, 02:17:38 PM

Only if the coin is merge-minable like for Bitcoin and Namecoin. However for ETHEREUM there isnt anything such, so you can only dual mine DCR or SIA.

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September 02, 2016, 06:45:24 PM

Only if the coin is merge-minable like for Bitcoin and Namecoin. However for ETHEREUM there isnt anything such, so you can only dual mine DCR or SIA.

That is right. I think ETH will not allow ETC to be merge mineable with it as it will increase the hash rate of ETC.

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