Best Litecoin & Dogecoin (LTC/DOGE) Miners — Scrypt ASICs
Litecoin (LTC) and Dogecoin (DOGE) share the Scrypt algorithm and have been merge-mined since 2014. One Scrypt ASIC produces both LTC and DOGE rewards from the same hashes — combined revenue regularly outpaces per-watt SHA-256 yields.
What merged mining means
Auxiliary proof-of-work lets one chain (Dogecoin) accept work done for another chain (Litecoin) as valid mining proofs. From the miner’s perspective, every Scrypt hash counts twice: once toward the LTC block and once toward DOGE. Pool fees and overheads are paid once; payouts arrive in both currencies.
When Scrypt beats SHA-256
The break-even comparison depends on three variables: LTC price, DOGE price, and your electricity rate. Historical pattern: when DOGE has a price spike (Twitter-driven or otherwise), Scrypt mining temporarily exceeds Bitcoin mining on a per-kWh basis. Outside those spikes, Scrypt is competitive but not dominant.
Hardware in our catalog
Bitmain Antminer L9 (commercial-grade, ~17 GH/s) and Fluminer L3 (9.5 GH/s, alternative manufacturer with permissive firmware) are the current generation. Older L7 units are still around in refurbished markets but inefficient enough to be marginal at most electricity rates.
Fluminer L2 is the home-tier option (1.2 GH/s, 280 W, WiFi) — fits a closet or office without dedicated electrical work. For deciding between home deployment vs hosting, see Home Mining vs Hosted Mining.
Hosted Scrypt option
For buyers in expensive-electricity regions, our Hosted Fluminer L1 Pro bundles 6 GH/s of Scrypt mining with 12 months of all-in hosting at our partner facility. Power, cooling, network, and uptime monitoring included.
