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At 5¢/kWh the most profitable Litecoin miner today, the Bitdeer SealMiner DL1 Hydro, earns about $31.79 a day and burns $9.39 of electricity, leaving about $22.40 a day. 37 of 63 Scrypt miners we track are profitable at that price. Set your own power price above and the whole page recalculates.

Ranked by profit per day at 5¢/kWh: Bitdeer SealMiner DL1 Hydro ($22.40/day, 52.5 GH/s at 7,823 W), Bitmain Antminer L11 Hyd 2U (35Gh) ($14.26/day, 35 GH/s at 5,775 W), Bitmain Antminer L11 Hyd 6U (33Gh) ($13.17/day, 33 GH/s at 5,676 W). The most efficient machine we track is the Bitdeer SealMiner DL1 Air at 149.0 J/GH; cheap power favours raw hashrate, expensive power favours efficiency, so the order changes with your price.

At today's price and difficulty the Bitdeer SealMiner DL1 Hydro breaks even at about 17¢ per kWh: above that it costs more to run than it earns. Pool fees (usually 1-4%), cooling and any hosting margin come on top, so plan with a buffer. Of the 63 machines we track, 43 are in profit at 3¢/kWh, 37 at 6¢ and 21 at 10¢, which is why miners chase cheap power.

The fastest payback at 5¢/kWh is the Bitmain Antminer L9 Hyd 2U (27Gh): about $2,499 for the machine, $9.55 profit a day, so roughly 9 months if price and difficulty stayed where they are today. The top earner, the Bitdeer SealMiner DL1 Hydro, costs $9,799 and pays back in about 14 months. In practice difficulty usually rises as new machines ship, so real payback is longer; a falling coin price stretches it further, a rally shortens it.

The Bitdeer SealMiner DL1 Hydro, at 52.5 GH/s, mines about 0.519 LTC a day today, worth $31.79. That is 0.0022% of the network's 2.41 PH/s. The whole network mints about 3,624 LTC a day ($222,089), and every miner earns its share of hashrate.

On its own, one Bitdeer SealMiner DL1 Hydro would find a Litecoin block about once every 3 months on average, and luck can stretch that a long way. That is why almost everyone mines in a pool: the pool finds blocks every day and pays each miner by its share of the work. FPPS and PPS+ pools pay a fixed amount per share (fees often 2-4%), PPLNS pools pay out only when the pool finds a block (often 0-2%, but lumpier). Pick a pool that pays the merge-mined coins too: Litecoin and Dogecoin come together, often with smaller Scrypt coins on top.

Right now each block pays about 6.250 LTC including fees, with a block every 2 minutes on average, about 3,624 LTC a day. 76.32 million of the 84.00 million maximum are already out (91%). The reward fell to 6.25 LTC at the August 2023 halving; the next halving (to 3.125 LTC) is expected around mid-2027. Difficulty retargets every 2,016 blocks (about 3.5 days). Merge-mined Dogecoin usually pays a large part of a Scrypt miner's income.

Scrypt was designed to be memory-hard, but ASICs took over around 2014. Litecoin and Dogecoin share it and are merge-mined (AuxPoW): a Scrypt machine works on both at once and the pool pays out both coins, often with smaller merge-mined coins such as Pepecoin, Dingocoin and Luckycoin on top. Makers include Bitmain (Antminer L series), Elphapex (DG series) and VolcMiner, with Goldshell for small home units. Hashrate is quoted in GH/s. We track 63 Scrypt machines; judge them by J/GH (efficiency) against your power price, then by price per GH, cooling type and the warranty and repair options where you will run them.

One megawatt of power runs about 127 Bitdeer SealMiner DL1 Hydro units. At 5¢/kWh that is roughly $86,491 a month in profit before pool fees, cooling overhead and staff, for about $1.24M of machines. Site profit is very sensitive to the power price: every 1¢/kWh costs about $7,296 a month at one megawatt. CryptoSites.io lists powered land, container farms and hosting with the power price on every listing.

Pick a machine for your power price (see the table above), then sort out power and cooling: most ASICs need 200-277 V at 10-30 A each, hydro models usually 380-415 V three-phase and a cooling loop, and air-cooled units are too loud for a home. Set up a Litecoin wallet, point the machine at a pool, and watch temperatures in the first days. If you don't have cheap power and space, hosting is the usual route: a host runs the machine for an all-in price per kWh. CryptoSites.io lists both powered sites and hosting.