Crypto Mining Scam: My Year with Dualmine

Wednesday, April 1, 2026 | Fraud Prevention

In 2020, I decided to try crypto mining as a new income stream. Genesis Mining worked well until they shut down. Later, I read about Dualmine on Hive and gave it a shot in 2021.

At the time, ETH was still mineable. Then Ethereum switched to Proof of Stake, mining died—and with it, any reason to stay.

When I tried to withdraw my 0.04 ETH, I hit a wall: Dualmine forced users through a convoluted process that required converting to their internal coin (worthless). I gave up. Recently, I checked my dashboard expecting at least to see the balance. Nothing. Gone.

How do these people operate for years with zero consequences? Probably because law enforcement struggles to pursue international crypto cases. My loss was small, but I've heard devastation stories—especially people who fell for recovery scammers promising to get their money back. I know someone who got hit three times. Each time, they believed it would work.

Don't chase recovery through third parties. The blockchain complexity makes these scams easy to perpetuate. I accepted the lesson and moved on.

My advice: if you see Dualmine or anything like it, skip it entirely. Not worth the risk. Share this if it helps someone avoid the same trap.

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