How To Mine Ethereum + PascalCoin With Claymore’s Dual Miner – ETH 175Mh/s – PASC 875Mh/s

Ciprian V. | February 25, 2017 | Ethereum, Mining, PascalCoin, Tutorials | 29 Comments

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With the latest release of Claymore’s Dual Miner v8.0, besides the improvements and adjustments, there also was a new feature added which is Ethereum + PascalCoin mining. If you missed my article about the update you can check it here.

Here is the official thread of Claymore’s Dual Ethereum AMD+NVIDIA GPU Miner v8.0 (Windows/Linux) where you can read more about it: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1433925.0

For this tutorial i am using the following configuration:

MoBo – $200 ASRock H97 Anniversary or $160 ASRock H81 PRO BTC

RAM – $65 HyperX 8GB

CPU – $75 Intel G3258 4 Pentium 3.20

SSD – $55 Kingston 120GB SSDNow

Risers – $50 6-Pack PCI-E 16x to 1x Powered Riser

PSU – $235 EVGA 1200W 80 Plus Platinum

6x GPUs- $1,200 Sapphire Nitro+ RX 470 4GB

Frame – $190 GPU Mining Rig Open Air Frame Case or do it yourself, tutorial here!

Ethereum & Ethereum Classic hashing speed using 6x Sapphire Nitro+ RX 470 4GB can be up to 170Mh/s.

UPDATE FEBRUARY 23, 2017 for 1x Sapphire Nitro+ OC RX 470 4GB (Samsung Memory) : stock 22.xx Mh/s, modded bios 24.5xx Mh/s, overclocked and downvolted 70w-80w 29.xxx Mh/s. 6x rig 175 Mh/s

Here is how you can mine Ethereum and Pascal at the same time with Claymore’s Dual Mininer:

Tutorial Contents

1 Create PascalCoin Wallet Key
2 Preparing Mining Pools
3 Claymore Miner Configuration
4 Hashing results with 3x Sapphire Nitro+ OC RX 470 4GB mining rig
5 More hashing power, OVERCLOCK & UNDERVOLT!
6 Checking mining progress

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Create PascalCoin Wallet Key

First of all, create an account with https://poloniex.com/
When logged in, go to “BALANCES” -> “DEPOSITS & WITHDRAWALS“
In the search form type “pasc” and it will instantly show you PascalCoin, then click on “deposit” and the wallet key will be generated, save it for later.
The click on Deposit Address to generate one, save it for later

poloniex pascalcoin wallet key

Preparing Mining Pools

As always for Ethereum i will be using https://ethermine.org/ (no account registration is required)
For PascalCoin i will use https://pasc.suprnova.cc/, create an account with suprnova if you don’t have one yet/
Once logged in, go to “Edit Account” and fill it up with your details, also don’t forget to add the wallet key there and to set
Then go to “My Account” -> “My Workers” and create one

suprnova account

suprnova worker

Claymore Miner Configuration

Download Claymore’s Miner v8.0 https://mega.nz/#F!O4YA2JgD!n2b4iSHQDruEsYUvTQP5_w
Once downloaded, extract the files from archive
Right click on “start.bat” file and then click “Edit“
Replace everything with the following code: EthDcrMiner64.exe -epool eu1.ethermine.org:4444 -ewal WALLET_KEY.RIG_NAME -epsw x -dpool stratum+tcp://pasc.suprnova.cc:5279 -dwal SUPRNOVA_USERNAME.SUPRNOVA_WORKER_NAME -dpsw SUPRNOVA_PASSWORD -dcoin pasc -dcri 10
Replace wallet key, rig name, username and password with yours
“Save as” .bat file and give it a name like ETH+PASC.bat
Run the .bat file and the miner process with start.