Is dual mining still viable?

[666mrga999]

It is a simple question, is dual mining on current generation GPUs profitable and if yes then which coin.

I remember good old days of mining with Claymore ETH+DCR. This added up to 30% more profitability not counting
extra power consumption.

So I wonder what dual mining combination is most profitable and what miner should be used.
Thank you fellow anons.

[safar1980]

I think that the most optimal dual mining is ETH+ZIL mining
You can find the setup instructions on this site.
https://ezil.me/start
The profit is not big, but it does not reduce the ETH mining hashrate.

[JHORN]

Dual mining still works but not Profitable and more electricity drawn in the process, years ago dual mining was very profitable and more advisable too but not anymore, ETH+ZIL is still a thing but that is if you don't pay huge electricity bills

[Temido2222]

Not anymore, coins like Sia have ASICs now so the difficulty shot up and price dropped.

[socks435]

Dual mining still works but not Profitable and more electricity drawn in the process, years ago dual mining was very profitable and more advisable too but not anymore, ETH+ZIL is still a thing but that is if you don't pay huge electricity bills

How about ETH+HNS do you think it will still eat more power?

Or it's enough to mine a single coin which is ETH?

I'm actually paying with high Electricity rate here in my country and trying to reduce the power just to stay mining with ETH.

[mak013]

Dual mining still works but not Profitable and more electricity drawn in the process, years ago dual mining was very profitable and more advisable too but not anymore, ETH+ZIL is still a thing but that is if you don't pay huge electricity bills

How about ETH+HNS do you think it will still eat more power?

Or it's enough to mine a single coin which is ETH?

I'm actually paying with high Electricity rate here in my country and trying to reduce the power just to stay mining with ETH.

It eat more power without higher profit. Right now i`m mining ETH+ZIL, it gives few dollars more, but yesterday i decided to think about it in such a way:
Ezil pool have just 1% of ETH nethash. That`s why he catches 1 block in 100. For a long distance with the same reward - it doesn`t matter. But yesterday i saw a wave of blocks with huge reward. And in such a case Ethermine catched 30 blocks, and Ezil just 1.  And in such a moment dual mining becomes less profitable.

[doktor83]

It eat more power without higher profit. Right now i`m mining ETH+ZIL, it gives few dollars more, but yesterday i decided to think about it in such a way:
Ezil pool have just 1% of ETH nethash. That`s why he catches 1 block in 100. For a long distance with the same reward - it doesn`t matter. But yesterday i saw a wave of blocks with huge reward. And in such a case Ethermine catched 30 blocks, and Ezil just 1.  And in such a moment dual mining becomes less profitable.

You can mine ETH on any pool (ethermine) and ZIL on Ezil with SRBMiner-Multi

[mak013]

You can mine ETH on any pool (ethermine) and ZIL on Ezil with SRBMiner-Multi

This miner is only for AMD GPUs as i know. And several days ago was a research, that TeamRedMiner is the best miner for AMD. In such a way, i will need to calculate miner difference.
But in any way thx for information, i haven`t used this miner yet.

[socks435]

Can you share your power draw mining both ETH and Zil?

Just incase I want to calculate how much power will be cost in total and how much coins you can mine with nVidia cards.

Currently have 150 watts on GTX 1080ti with 41mh/s and 90watts for 1070 with 23mh/s.

If you guys have some idea to reduce the watts for 1070 let me know and test your setup I'm still not satisfied with 1070 with that hashrate and watts.

[mak013]

Can you share your power draw mining both ETH and Zil?

Just incase I want to calculate how much power will be cost in total and how much coins you can mine with nVidia cards.

Currently have 150 watts on GTX 1080ti with 41mh/s and 90watts for 1070 with 23mh/s.

If you guys have some idea to reduce the watts for 1070 let me know and test your setup I'm still not satisfied with 1070 with that hashrate and watts.

It works in another way. All the time you are mining only ETH, but 1 time per 2 hours you stop mining ETH and begin mining ZIL for 3-5 minutes. And again mine only ETH. This is the same algo - ethash.

[FloppyPurpleGherkin]

ETH+ZIL isn't dual mining.. Your just losing money when it switches to ZIL and stops mining ETH.

3-4 years ago, Dual mining was real.. I had 100+ 280x pulling 250w+ mining ETH+SC.. They were like hairdryers.