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How long until a Scrypt miner pays for itself? Enter your hardware and power costs — the math includes Dogecoin merge-mining, which is usually the bigger half of the paycheck.
Per-machine yields are anchored to current network difficulty (a 9.5 GH/s L7 earns about 0.0106 LTC + 44.2 DOGE/day). Raise the difficulty factor to model future competition; a value of 2.0 halves your per-machine yield. DOGE price auto-fills from CoinGecko when available.
A Scrypt miner earns Litecoin and Dogecoin at the same time through merge-mining, so both coins count toward your revenue at no extra power draw. This calculator takes your hashrate's share of the network, prices the LTC and DOGE you would earn per day, subtracts the pool fee and your electricity bill, and divides your hardware cost by the daily profit to estimate the payback period. Lower your electricity rate or your purchase price and the payback shrinks fast; raise the difficulty factor to see how rising competition stretches it out.
Electricity rate and coin prices dominate the result. Because Dogecoin is often the larger share of revenue on modern hardware, the DOGE price moves your payback more than the Litecoin price does, and more than the 2027 halving will. Difficulty is the wild card: new machines coming online erode your per-machine yield, while miner capitulation after a price drop raises it. Treat the output as a snapshot at today's inputs, not a guarantee.
Dig deeper with our full breakdown of Scrypt ASIC economics after the 2027 halving, watch live network stats on the mining dashboard, and time the supply cut on the halving countdown.
Daily revenue is the LTC and DOGE your hardware earns per day times their prices, minus pool fees; subtract daily electricity cost (kilowatts times 24 hours times your rate) for daily profit. Payback is hardware cost divided by daily profit.
LTC and DOGE are merge-mined, so one Scrypt computation earns both at no extra power cost. DOGE is usually the larger share of revenue on modern ASICs, so ignoring it badly understates earnings.
It depends on hardware cost, electricity, and prices. Many miners target under 12-18 months, but rising difficulty and the 2027 halving can extend it. Cheap power is the biggest lever.
It halves only the LTC reward, not DOGE. Since DOGE is often most of the revenue, total income usually falls single digits rather than 50 percent — though price or difficulty swings can hurt far more.