How to Dual Mine ETH and PASC using Coinotron

The Long, PDF-version

This guides goes through the process of mining…

● Both ETH and PASC on Coinotron

● ETH on another (your current) pool, PASC on Coinotron

Short foreword
This guide is meant for Windows, but the process is pretty much the same for Linux as well.

Why mine PASC on Coinotron? Nanopool works for me.

Nanopool is absolutely amazing when it comes to getting started; it just works out of the box. If you,
like me, want to have options, like not getting mail bombarded with notifications in the middle of the
night that a worker has gone offline when it hasn’t, then you want a pool that offers an account with
a control panel. What if you lose the password to your wallet and need to change payout info, or you
simply wish more reliable control over payout amount settings? That’s where Coinotron comes in.

There’s also the benefit of the coin. Maybe you don’t care whether PASC will live or die; maybe you
sell your coins as soon as you get them. But of all the coins you can dual mine, if PASC has gotten
your attention for any other reason, and at no cost to your own, why not do what’s best for the coins
longevity and spread the hashrate over multiple pools? And right now, Coinotron is the best option
for that with a proven track record and reliability for several years.

So, let’s get started, shall we?

Step 1) Claymore Dual Miner

First off you need a miner capable of dual mining. This guide will use Claymore. You can find the
latest version at https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1433925.0

Follow the instructions for your platform on what and how to download and unpack.

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Step 2) Coinotron Account

2.1) Short version:

a) Create account at https://www.coinotron.com
b) Click activation link in your mail
c) Login
d) Go to step 3 in this guide (page 6)

2.2) Long, very thorough version:

Go to https://www.coinotron.com and click on “Sign up”:

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Insert Username, Password and Email, then click the gray “Sign up”-button at the bottom.

You will see this confirmation message popping up above the Sign up window:

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Go to your email and click the link (just like the green friendly message instructs). It will look
something like this:

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Clicking the link in the mail will get you to this screen:

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Now simply sign in with your new account. Once logged in, click on “Workers”:

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Create a worker by putting in the name and password in the highlighted area for your mining rig:

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Like so:

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As for the name of the worker is entirely up to you, feel free to name it whatever you’d like. Once
you’ve chosen a name and password, click the green “Add”-button. If you for some reason can’t see
the green “Add”-button, simply click in one of the fields and press Enter on your keyboard.

Alternatively, if you wish to mine both ETH and PASC at Coinotron, you can create two workers, one
named Eth and one Pasc. These are only suggestions on naming as you get to choose your own
names on the workers, pick what works for you. Both can be set to PPLNS, but ETH can also be set to
RBPPS if you prefer.

Make sure the “Reward type” is set to PPLNS on the worker you intend to use for PASC though.
Generally speaking, over time, PPLNS gives a higher reward over time compared to PPS (which is
what Nanopool uses). Google “PPLNS vs PPS” if you want to get more in-depth.

You can add or disable monitoring in the “Workers”-tab on Coinotron, as well as customize when it
reports. If you have multiple mining rigs you can filter based on the last 60-minutes hashrates as well
as last share. These are some of the things Coinotron offers that Nanopool doesn’t.

One last thing before we’re done; setting up the account you want your rewards to be sent to. Click
on “Settings”:

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1) Double click the PASC row under the “Payout address” column.
2) Enter your account. For payments to Poloniex, it’s “86646-64.payload”. Commented [1]: If you are mining to an exchange you
3) If you want auto payouts, check the “Auto payouts” checkbox. need write ACCOUNT.PAYLOAD (We recommend
mining to the Pascal Wallet)
4) And in the “Payout threshold”, enter the minimum amount to be paid out.

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Step 3) Setting up Claymore
This is the easy, yet complex part. There are a lot of variables, but if you just focus on the core it’s
surprisingly straight forward.

3.1) Short version:

a) ETH options:
a. Set (or keep) -epool and -ewal at your favored pool
b. Create a worker for ETH at coinotron and point the miner there
b) PASC options:
a. Add “-dcoin pasc -dpool coinotron.com:3348 -dwal username.workername” in your
start.bat, replacing the placeholders as needed.

3.2) Long, very thorough version:

When setting up Claymore for dual mining PASC you have several options:

a) Do you want to dual mine both ETH+PASC at Coinotron?

b) Do you prefer to mine ETH elsewhere?

I think the easiest way to go through these use cases is to simply provide sample *.bat-files and
explaining the settings. As we’re dealing with text now, no pictures beyond this point.

3.2.1) You wish to mine both ETH and PASC at Coinotron:

Here’s a sample from Coinotrons Help-section (link at the end of PDF):

EthDcrMiner64.exe -epool coinotron.com:3344 -ewal username.workername -esm 2 -epsw x -dcoin

pasc -dpool coinotron.com:3348 -dwal username.workername -dpsw x -allpools 1

Explanation of the important ones:

(please consult the Readme in the Claymore folder for more in-depth explanation)

-epool The address to the ETH-pool

-ewal This is where you want the rewards to go for your mining. In our case, we want the
rewards to go to our account, using one of our workers.
-dcoin For Dual mode, which coin do you want to mine? Check the Readme in the claymore
folder for more information. In this case, we want “pasc”.
-dpool Same as -epool, but for the second coin. The numbers after the colon is the port. ETH
has one port at Coinotron (3344), PASC has another (3348).
-dwal Same as -ewal, but for our PASC worker. Username = your Coinotron username,
workername = the name of your worker from step 2.2) of this guide. In the example
from the pictures, this would be “myRig”.

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Regarding the -ewal and -dwal, username.workername means your Coinotron username (In my case
“th0m”, as seen above), and my workername in this guide would be “myRig” (as shown by the
pictures). If I want to mine ETH on Coinotron I’d just create a worker with a name I can relate to, so
I’ll name it “Eth”, and I’ll put it as PPLNS. This means my start.bat-file would look like this:

EthDcrMiner64.exe -epool coinotron.com:3344 -ewal th0m.Eth -dcoin pasc -dpool

coinotron.com:3348 -dwal th0m.myRig

And that’s it!

3.2.2) You wish to switch PASC dual mining to Coinotron:

(also; you wish to start dual mining PASC):

Assuming you’re mining ETH at nanopool, your bat file might look like this:

EthDcrMiner64.exe -epool eth-eu1.nanopool.org:9999 -ewal

YOUR_ETH_ADDRESS.YOUR_WORKER_NAME/YOUR_EMAIL

I know suprnova and other pools are popular, and your bat-file will look pretty similar if you’re
mining over there instead.

Simply add the –dcoin, -dpool and -dwal at the end of that line:

-dcoin pasc -dpool coinotron.com:3348 -dwal username.workername

4) Closing notes and additional tips

Make sure the start.bat file is in the same folder as the EthDcrMiner64.exe. You can if you want
create more bat-files by either ctrl+c and ctrl+v the file or ctrl+dragging the file. This is great if you
want different settings when you start adding those commands (see the Readme in the Claymore
folder for a detailed explanation of all the commands and what they do).

Creating shortcuts to the start.bat file works as well, if you want to have access to them easily like on
the Desktop or elsewhere. On Windows, if you locate the Startup folder you can create a shortcut
there to the start.bat and it’ll start mining automatically when you turn on your computer.

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A small note on payouts directly to Poloniex, we recommend skipping any third party and send your
PASC straight to your wallet. If you for chose to send them straight to Poloniex regardless, don’t
forget that you MUST include your payload, which you can find on your Poloniex Balances page. The
reason they use a payload is because they only have one PASA (Pascal Account) that every user on
Poloniex shares, and they use the payload internally to differentiate between the users. Without the
payload, they have no way of knowing who’s PASC you just deposited.

If you want to get a PASA of your own, go to pascalcoin.org to find out the different ways of getting
one.

A short note about me

I mined Litecoin a while back, until early 2014. It was during the Bitcoin and Eth boom during the
summer of 2017 I got reminded that I still had my Litecoin on a pool somewhere. A long story about
frantically searching for my laptop cut short, my Litecoin was still there waiting for me at Coinotron,
and it was super easy getting them out.

If you want to use a pool that has proven it holds your coins for you for years, who reliably payouts
and who can help grow PASC, this pool is definitely one I recommend to you. I, like many others who
believe in the future of this coin, use this pool not only for the added benefit of a control panel, but
also because spreading the hashrate over multiple pools is in the best interest of the coin.

If you have questions you can find me on the self-invite PASC slack.

I’m th0m.

L INKS:

PASC website http://www.pascalcoin.org/

Claymore https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1433925.0

Coinotron https://www.coinotron.com

Coinotron Help Page https://www.coinotron.com/app?action=help