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The answer:

Litecoin and Dogecoin miners can also secure $PEP, using the same hashrate.

Merge mining sounds complicated, but the idea is pretty simple once you break it down.

Normally, mining two different coins means running two separate setups — your hashing power on one chain doesn't help the other. Merge mining changes that: a miner can secure more than one blockchain at the same time with the same computational work, as long as the chains use compatible algorithms and support the mechanism.

The technical name is AuxPow (Auxiliary Proof-of-Work) — pioneered by Bitcoin and Namecoin back in 2011, and used by Dogecoin together with Litecoin since 2014. So this isn't new or experimental — it's a well-established, battle-tested setup.

For Pepecoin specifically: mining pools that already support Litecoin and Dogecoin can add Pepecoin as an additional chain to secure, without extra hardware or splitting hashrate three ways. As more pools enable Pepecoin alongside Litecoin and Dogecoin, the hashrate securing the Pepecoin network grows right along with two of the most established Proof-of-Work chains around.

Why it matters for a smaller chain like Pepecoin?

A brand-new blockchain starting from zero hashrate is vulnerable — it just doesn't have enough miners yet. By merge mining with Litecoin and Dogecoin, Pepecoin borrows security from two much bigger, established networks from day one, instead of trying to bootstrap that security alone.

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