Litecoin Mining Profitability Calculator

How the calculation works

Your expected share of the network is your hashrate divided by everyone's hashrate. Litecoin produces ~576 blocks a day (one per 150 s target), each paying the 6.25 LTC subsidy plus transaction fees — we use the average fees of the last 10 blocks, shown live in the tile above. The pool fee is taken off gross coins; uptime scales both your hashing and your power bill.

The after next adjustment row re-runs the same math with the network's projected difficulty change. Litecoin retargets every 2,016 blocks like Bitcoin, but at 150 s blocks that is roughly every 3.5 days — the snapshot goes stale faster than on BTC.

Honest assumptions

Every output above is a snapshot of right now — difficulty -- and an LTC price of --. Neither holds still.

LTC-only revenue. This page deliberately counts Litecoin alone. On a merged-mining pool the same watts also earn DOGE, which materially changes the profit and break-even numbers — that is a separate, honest calculation covered on the merged mining page.

Difficulty drifts. When Scrypt hashrate grows, every MH/s earns proportionally less at each retarget. A "profit / year" figure at frozen difficulty is an upper bound, not a forecast. See the difficulty page for the history.

Pool luck and payout scheme. FPPS/PPS pools pay smoothed expected value minus their fee; PPLNS payouts swing with pool luck. This calculator shows the expectation, not any single week's payout.

Power and uptime. Spec-sheet watts exclude PSU losses and cooling (often +5–15% at the wall). Real uptime is under 100% — that's why it's an input, not an assumption.

FAQ

Why is my real mining payout lower than calculators say?

Calculators snapshot today's network. In practice difficulty moves between snapshots (Litecoin retargets every 2,016 blocks, about every 3.5 days), pool payout schemes and luck add variance, real wall-power draw usually exceeds the spec-sheet watts, and no machine runs at 100% uptime. This calculator's after-next-adjustment row corrects the first effect; test the rest with your own numbers above.

What electricity price do I need to mine Litecoin profitably?

Your break-even electricity price is daily revenue divided by daily energy use: break-even $/kWh = revenue/day ÷ kWh/day. The calculator computes it live for your hardware and compares it to the rate you entered — but note it uses LTC-only revenue; on a merged-mining pool the DOGE side raises your real break-even ceiling considerably. Efficiency matters too: an L9 at ~0.21 J/MH tolerates a higher rate than an L7 at ~0.36 J/MH (approx. manufacturer spec).

Should I include hardware cost in mining profitability?

Yes. The number above is operating profit only. Enter your hardware cost in the miner panel and the calculator adds a Payback row: hardware price ÷ profit/day = days to recover the machine. Because network hashrate tends to grow over time, real payback usually takes longer than that simple estimate — and the row uses LTC-only profit, so a merged LTC+DOGE setup recovers cost faster. If estimated payback already exceeds the machine's realistic useful life, the purchase doesn't work at today's numbers.

Why does Litecoin-only mining look unprofitable on this page?

This page counts LTC revenue alone. Almost all Scrypt miners merge-mine Dogecoin via AuxPoW at no extra power cost, and most major pools pay LTC and DOGE together — the combined revenue is what makes modern Scrypt ASICs viable. See merged mining for the full picture.