What is a good hashprice for a scrypt miner?

It depends on your power cost. A machine is profitable while its daily revenue (hashprice × its MH/s) exceeds its daily power cost (watts × 24 × your $/kWh ÷ 1,000). Example: a 9,050 MH/s, 3,425 W machine (approx. manufacturer spec) at $0.06/kWh burns about $4.93/day in electricity — but scrypt rigs merge-mine Dogecoin at no extra cost, so compare that against Litecoin hashprice plus Dogecoin hashprice combined, not the LTC-only figure on this page.

Why did Litecoin hashprice fall after the 2023 halving?

On 2 August 2023 the block subsidy dropped from 12.5 to 6.25 LTC. Because transaction fees are a very small share of Litecoin miner revenue, hashprice fell by roughly half overnight at unchanged price. The next halving, at block 3,360,000 (roughly 2027 at the 2.5-minute target), cuts the subsidy to 3.125 LTC.

Does hashprice include pool fees?

No. Hashprice is gross network-level revenue per MH/s per day. To get your net number, subtract your pool's fee (typically 0–2%) and your electricity cost — and remember merged-mined DOGE payouts are on top of this LTC-only figure.

Litecoin Hashprice — Live Scrypt Hashprice Chart (MH/s)

What is hashprice?

Hashprice is the industry-standard measure of gross miner revenue, applied here to Litecoin's scrypt algorithm: the US-dollar value one megahash per second (MH/s) earns in one day. It combines the four inputs that decide mining income — block subsidy, transaction fees, network hashrate and LTC price — into one number you can compare directly against your electricity cost.

Important scrypt caveat: almost all Litecoin pools merge-mine Dogecoin via AuxPoW, so the same hashes also earn DOGE at no extra power cost. This page shows the LTC-only hashprice; add the Dogecoin hashprice for the combined revenue a real scrypt rig sees.

How it's calculated

hashprice = (86,400 s ÷ 150 s target) × (subsidy + avg fees per block) × (1 MH/s ÷ network hashrate) × LTC price
= 576 blocks/day × (6.25 LTC + avg fees) × your share of the network × USD/LTC

The live value uses the current network hashrate, the average total fees of the 10 most recent blocks, and the live LTC price — recomputed in your browser every 60 seconds. The split bar shows how much comes from the fixed 6.25 LTC subsidy versus transaction fees; on Litecoin fees are typically well under 1% of the block reward.

Why hashprice keeps falling — and why it matters

Three forces move it. Network hashrate growth dilutes your share: every new scrypt machine earns out of the same 576 blocks a day, so revenue per MH/s drifts down whenever hashrate grows faster than price. Halvings cut the subsidy in half every 840,000 blocks — the next, at height 3,360,000, drops it to 3.125 LTC and roughly halves the LTC-only hashprice overnight. Price is the only input that reliably pushes it up. Merged DOGE income softens all of this, which is why scrypt rigs stayed viable through the 2023 halving.

Deciding on hardware? For your real combined LTC+DOGE revenue, use the merged mining calculator →. The LTC mining calculator covers the Litecoin side only — this page's LTC-only hashprice against your machine's wattage and electricity rate — and shows the effect of the next difficulty adjustment.

FAQ

What is a good hashprice for a scrypt miner?: It depends on your power cost. A machine is profitable while its daily revenue (hashprice × its MH/s) exceeds its daily power cost (watts × 24 × your $/kWh ÷ 1,000). Example: a 9,050 MH/s, 3,425 W machine (approx. manufacturer spec) at $0.06/kWh burns about $4.93/day in electricity — but scrypt rigs merge-mine Dogecoin at no extra cost, so compare that against Litecoin hashprice plus Dogecoin hashprice combined, not the LTC-only figure on this page.
Why did Litecoin hashprice fall after the 2023 halving?: On 2 August 2023 the block subsidy dropped from 12.5 to 6.25 LTC. Because transaction fees are a very small share of Litecoin miner revenue, hashprice fell by roughly half overnight at unchanged price. The next halving, at block 3,360,000 (roughly 2027 at the 2.5-minute target), cuts the subsidy to 3.125 LTC.
Does hashprice include pool fees?: No. Hashprice is gross network-level revenue per MH/s per day. To get your net number, subtract your pool's fee (typically 0–2%) and your electricity cost — and remember merged-mined DOGE payouts are on top of this LTC-only figure.