I get people locally also asking me how to mine Doge. The issue is that most people have no idea the difference between a CPU, GPU, and an ASIC. And not only that they have no idea that different coins have different algos.
I keep telling people with Ryzen CPUs to mine XMR. They say they want DOGE and not XMR. I tell them you gotta mine XMR, sell it and buy DOGE. Not other way around. They still want to mine Doge with the CPUs.
Same with people who got decent GPUs like 1080. I keep telling them to mine ETH, sell for Doge. But they are saying they rather mine Doge at a smaller profit than ETH because they say ETH can't go up 1000% like Doge coin. I tell them mine ETH because its most profitable and sell and buy Doge, but they still want to know why they are getting tons of rejected shares when they point their PhoenixMiner software which has ETH algo selected pointed to a DOGE pool.
I keep telling people with Ryzen CPUs to mine XMR. They say they want DOGE and not XMR. I tell them you gotta mine XMR, sell it and buy DOGE. Not other way around. They still want to mine Doge with the CPUs.
Same with people who got decent GPUs like 1080. I keep telling them to mine ETH, sell for Doge. But they are saying they rather mine Doge at a smaller profit than ETH because they say ETH can't go up 1000% like Doge coin. I tell them mine ETH because its most profitable and sell and buy Doge, but they still want to know why they are getting tons of rejected shares when they point their PhoenixMiner software which has ETH algo selected pointed to a DOGE pool.
I have same experience.
After couple discussions I started pointing them to pools where you can select payout in DOGE ( but I hide the fact they are actualy mining ETH and pool sells it ).
Works well so far.
The worst part is that I'm aware of giving advice to do something I'm completely against (I mean selling a useful coin with potential for something so useless).
