Pools & Payouts

Merged Mining (AuxPoW)

Mining two blockchains simultaneously with one machine's work — the Litecoin/Dogecoin pair is the canonical example, doubling revenue streams at zero extra power.

Auxiliary proof-of-work lets a child chain (Dogecoin) accept proofs produced while mining a parent chain (Litecoin). The miner's Scrypt work is submitted to both networks; valid solutions for either chain pay out. Since 2014 this has secured Dogecoin with Litecoin's full hashrate.

For miners the effect is automatic on supporting pools: configure the Litecoin stratum, receive LTC and DOGE both. DOGE frequently contributes half or more of total Scrypt revenue — no Litecoin profitability analysis is complete without it.

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Scrypt
Mining Pool

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