<p>The disadvantage of merged mining is the additional coin daemons you have to run in the background. They all use disk space, memory, cpu cycles and bandwidth. A more annoying issue is that most of them are no longer maintained and have bugs. You may find that they crash frequently - at least namecoind does.</p>

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2013-04-21T02:44:35.193Z
2013-04-21T02:44:35.193Z
Dr.Haribo
<p>What are the disadvantages of merged mining? I'm very interested in p2pool and since I have to "run my own server" I've been considering enabling merged mining.</p>

<p>Besides the obvious administration overhead and learning (which I chalk up to being a hobby), what disadvantages are there? I wouldn't be reducing my BTC hashrate would I?</p>

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[You might find this useful](https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=62842.0)
Nick ODell
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Merged Mining Disadvantages
David Kassa
# Merged Mining Disadvantages

(Asked by: username_0 on 2013-04-19)

What are the disadvantages of merged mining? I'm very interested in p2pool and since I have to "run my own server" I've been considering enabling merged mining.

Besides the obvious administration overhead and learning (which I chalk up to being a hobby), what disadvantages are there? I wouldn't be reducing my BTC hashrate would I?

**Tags:** mining-pools, namecoin, p2pool, merged-mining

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: [You might find this useful](https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=62842.0)  

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_2 on 2013-04-21. Score: 3 | Accepted answer

The disadvantage of merged mining is the additional coin daemons you have to run in the background. They all use disk space, memory, cpu cycles and bandwidth. A more annoying issue is that most of them are no longer maintained and have bugs. You may find that they crash frequently - at least namecoind does.


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