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Litecoin & Dogecoin ASIC Miner Profitability Calculator
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| Model |
Profitability
Profit
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|---|---|
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Bitdeer DL1 Hydro
Scrypt · 52.5GH/s
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$14.84
/day
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Bitmain Antminer L11 Hyd 2U
Scrypt · 35GH/s
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$8.82
/day
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Bitmain Antminer L11 Hyd 6U
Scrypt · 33GH/s
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$7.87
/day
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Bitdeer Sealminer DL1 Air
Scrypt · 25GH/s
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$7.07
/day
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Bitmain Antminer L11 Pro
Scrypt · 21GH/s
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$5.01
/day
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VolcMiner D3
Scrypt · 20GH/s
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$4.50
/day
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Bitmain Antminer L9 Hyd 2U
Scrypt · 27GH/s
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$4.47
/day
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Bitmain Antminer L11
Scrypt · 20GH/s
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$4.31
/day
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ElphaPex DG2+
Scrypt · 20.5GH/s
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$4.17
/day
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VolcMiner D1 Pro
Scrypt · 18GH/s
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$3.52
/day
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Bitmain Antminer L9
Scrypt · 17GH/s
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$3.22
/day
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VolcMiner D1
Scrypt · 18.5GH/s
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$3.04
/day
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VolcMiner D1 Hydro
Scrypt · 30.4GH/s
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$2.70
/day
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Bitmain Antminer L9
Scrypt · 16GH/s
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$2.65
/day
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VolcMiner D1 Pro
Scrypt · 9GH/s
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$2.51
/day
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Our cutting-edge mining calculator offers comprehensive insights across all major cryptocurrency algorithms, helping users easily identify the most profitable options for their specific hardware. The algorithm data is continuously refreshed to keep pace with the dynamic crypto mining industry, providing accurate evaluations based on real-time profitability statistics and overall market activity. This empowers users to make well-informed choices that reflect the latest mining conditions and algorithm performance.
One Scrypt hash, two block rewards
Every Scrypt ASIC in the table mines Litecoin and Dogecoin at the same time. The two networks below are what your hashrate is actually pointed at.
- Network hashrate
- 3.18 PH/s
- Difficulty
- 97.03 M
- Block reward
- 6.25 LTC
- Block time
- 2.2 min
- Network hashrate
- 2.49 PH/s
- Difficulty
- 36.49 M
- Block reward
- 10,000 DOGE
- Block time
- 63 s
Why a Scrypt ASIC is really a Dogecoin miner with a Litecoin bonus
Scrypt rests on a sequential memory-hard design that drives large working sets through ROMix and BlockMix using Salsa20/8, so memory bandwidth rather than raw arithmetic becomes the throttle of performance; its parameters N, r, and p raise memory cost, block size, and parallel lanes, and each can be tuned to fit hardware or threat models; this approach could blunt the edge of custom silicon because provisioning vast low-latency memory at scale is costly and awkward; early networks leaned on that premise to widen participation beyond SHA-256 mining, and Litecoin’s 2.5-minute blocks plus Dogecoin’s 1-minute cadence illustrate a bias toward faster confirmation; Dogecoin later embraced auxiliary proof-of-work with Litecoin, which lifted security and steadied incentives through merged rewards; Scrypt-N pushed the idea further by stepping N upward over time to keep ASICs chasing a moving target, though modern Scrypt ASICs now ship with substantial on-chip or tightly coupled memory and claw back much of the advantage; even so, the memory-bound profile curbs perfect parallel scaling and leaves room for GPUs and, on smaller networks, CPUs; beyond mining, Scrypt anchors password-based key derivation as standardized in RFC 7914, where large per-guess memory and salts raise the price of brute-force attempts; deployments select memory in tens to hundreds of megabytes and tune runtime to meet latency budgets, while p adds concurrency without shrinking per-guess memory; practical mining outcomes hinge on power efficiency in joules per megahash, cooling and uptime, pool fees and stale share rates, network difficulty trends and block reward schedules, and potential merged-mined revenue; a profitability calculator that ingests these variables alongside hashrate and local electricity rates would replace hunches with scenario testing and sensitivity analysis; the net effect is a system inviting broader participation, yet it warns miners that specialization never sleeps; parameters must evolve to keep decentralization alive.
Share of the value both networks pay out per second: block reward divided by block time, times price, for each chain. It moves with the two prices; refresh to see it change.
Since 2014 Dogecoin has accepted Litecoin proof of work through auxiliary proof of work, so a pool can submit the same Scrypt hash to both chains. The miner does no extra work, but it is paid twice, and the profit column in the table already adds the two rewards together.
Because Dogecoin issues a fixed 10,000 coins per block forever while Litecoin halves every four years, the Dogecoin side has grown into the larger share of a Scrypt miner's income. The bar shows today's split of network revenue between the two chains at current prices and rewards.
The practical consequence is that a Scrypt ASIC is priced by the Dogecoin market more than by Litecoin, and pool fee structures for the merged reward vary. Compare the daily figure in the table, then check which pool fees the numbers assume before buying.
The most efficient Scrypt miners on this page
Scrypt efficiency is measured in joules per megahash, and it moved from well above one joule on the first generation to a fraction of that today. Lower is better.
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1
Sealminer DL1 AirBitdeer149.00 J/GH
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2
DL1 HydroBitdeer149.01 J/GH
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3
D1 ProVolcMiner151.11 J/GH
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4
Antminer L11 Hyd 2UBitmain165.00 J/GH
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5
Antminer L11 Hyd 6UBitmain172.00 J/GH
About the Scrypt algorithm
Scrypt is a memory-hard cryptographic algorithm that forces computations to traverse a dense jungle of RAM, making brute-force attacks and specialized hardware advantages more arduous, and it was introduced by Colin Percival in 2009 for the Tarsnap backup service before being standardized in RFC 7914; at its core, scrypt wraps PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA256 around a ROMix construction that repeatedly scrambles data with Salsa20/8, and its tunable parameters-N (cost, a power of two), r (block size), and p (parallelization)-let designers dial up memory and bandwidth pressure, with memory usage roughly 128 · r · N bytes (for example, the Litecoin setting N=1024, r=1, p=1 uses about 128 KiB per instance), and increasing these values raises both the time and RAM needed so that attackers face steep time–memory trade-offs if they try to cut corners; this architecture initially blunted ASIC dominance and widened participation to GPUs and CPUs, and its adoption by Litecoin in 2011, followed by Dogecoin, helped decentralize mining while also enabling faster block times than Bitcoin-about 2.5 minutes for Litecoin and 1 minute for Dogecoin-which improves transaction confirmation latency and, through merged mining introduced in 2014, lets Dogecoin benefit from Litecoin’s larger security budget; although specialized scrypt ASICs eventually emerged by integrating large on-chip or high-bandwidth external memory, they remain more complex, costlier to design, and power- and bandwidth-constrained compared to SHA-256 ASICs, preserving a measure of accessibility for commodity hardware and mitigating extreme centralization, with GPU miners still viable due to scrypt’s heavy, sequential memory access patterns; beyond mining, scrypt is widely used as a password-based key derivation function because its memory intensity inflates the cost of guessing attacks, and good practice includes using a unique salt of at least 128 bits, choosing parameters that target a perceptible delay (for example, on the order of hundreds of milliseconds) with substantial memory per hash (tens to hundreds of megabytes for high-value accounts), and adjusting N, r, and p as hardware evolves, while implementers should consider that excessive server-side parameters can enable denial-of-service if many hashes are computed concurrently; scrypt is supported in common libraries such as libsodium and OpenSSL, remains battle-tested, and although modern guidance often favors Argon2id for new systems, scrypt still provides strong, tunable defenses where compatibility and maturity matter; in mining contexts, fairness improves when more participants can contribute with standard GPUs, and profitability can be estimated by considering hashrate, power efficiency, network difficulty, block rewards, and fees, while performance tuning typically revolves around memory bandwidth, latency, and stable thermals; ultimately, by binding computation to memory like roots to rich soil, scrypt advances decentralization in proof-of-work networks and hardens password storage, a versatile design whose resilience endures even as the hardware landscape shifts around it.
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