Running a separate miner for each coin is fiddly: two configs, two processes, two things to babysit. Animica collapses that into one command that mines two coins at once on the same CPU.
How dual mining works here
The animica CLI launches two CPU miners side by side and splits your threads between them:
- Animica (ANM) on the SHA3 algorithm.
- Monero (XMR) on RandomX.
By default it’s a 50/50 thread split, so half your cores work each chain. You earn shares on both simultaneously, and you can take payouts in ANM or XMR.
Start in one command
Install the CLI (Python 3.10+):
python3 -m venv ~/animica-venv
source ~/animica-venv/bin/activate # Windows: animica-venv\Scripts\activate
pip install --upgrade "animica>=0.3.13"
Then dual-mine:
animica miner dual-mine <your-anim1-address> \
--pool-host pool.animica.org --threads 8 --worker myrig
That’s it. The CLI auto-downloads the correct miner binaries for your OS. Prefer a single coin? Add --only animica or --only xmr.
Why dual-mine instead of one coin?
- Better total yield from idle cores. If one chain’s difficulty spikes or price dips, the other keeps contributing.
- One workflow. One command, one process tree, one worker name across both pools.
- Optional ANM payouts. Earn a stake in a newer network while still mining established XMR.
Honest note: dual mining splits your hashrate, so you won’t get full-speed output on either coin — you get a blend. Whether that beats mining a single coin depends on prices and difficulty at the moment. It’s easy to switch with --only.
Tuning
--threads— total cores across both algos (split 50/50). Leave 1–2 for your OS.--worker— a label so you can tell your machines apart in stats.--only animica|xmr— run a single chain instead of dual.