What is Hashrate? The Speedometer of Mining

If crypto mining is like driving a car, then your hashrate is your speedometer. It tells you how fast your machine is working — how many guesses it is throwing at the network every single second. And like any race, the faster you go, the better your chances of getting to the finish line first. IMAGE 1 […]
How to Choose a Litecoin and Dogecoin Mining Pool

You have got your Scrypt miner set up and ready to hash. The next question is which mining pool to point it at — and it is a more important decision than most new miners realize. For Litecoin and Dogecoin, almost everyone mines in pools, but not all pools pay the same way, and the difference […]
What is merge mining? A case for mining Dogecoin alongside Litecoin

Merge Mining Litecoin and Dogecoin: One Miner, Two Paychecks One of the strangest and most elegant things about crypto mining is that sometimes the same work can count for two different networks at once. That is exactly what merge mining Litecoin and Dogecoin is all about: one machine, one energy cost, two reward streams running in parallel. […]
Why Can’t I Use My Bitcoin Miner to Mine Dogecoin?

If you are getting into mining, this question comes up fast. You have a Bitcoin miner, Dogecoin is everywhere, and it seems like you should be able to just point the machine at a different coin. The answer is actually straightforward: a Bitcoin miner cannot mine Dogecoin because the two coins run on completely different algorithms, and […]