Dogecoin now pays 83.5% of Scrypt miners' block rewards, and the Litecoin halving will push it higher
Every Scrypt ASIC that mines Litecoin can submit the same work to Dogecoin through merged mining (AuxPoW), so one machine earns on two chains for the same electricity. But the two chains do not contribute equally. A CryptoTicker calculation based on Blockchair data for October 10, 2026 shows that 83.5% of the miners' daily issuance budget came from Dogecoin and only 16.5% from Litecoin.
The numbers behind 83.5%
- Dogecoin: 1,353 blocks in 24 hours at a fixed 10,000 DOGE each, or 13.53 million DOGE, worth about $1.16 million at $0.086.
- Litecoin: 575 blocks at 6.25 LTC each, or 3,593.75 LTC, worth about $230,000 at $64.13.
- Fees barely matter: Dogecoin fees covered about 0.054% of issuance value, Litecoin's about 0.21%.
In other words, a merged miner earns roughly five sixths of its block reward income from DOGE. The source also notes that reported Scrypt hashrate swings because it is estimated from block counts: two queries minutes apart showed between 2.76 and 3.98 PH/s.
What the Litecoin halving changes
Litecoin halves its reward every 840,000 blocks. The next halving is at block 3,360,000, when the reward drops from 6.25 to 3.125 LTC. At the October pace of about 575 blocks a day, that lands around late July 2027. Dogecoin has no halving: 10,000 DOGE per block stays.
If prices stayed where they were, Litecoin's daily contribution would fall to about $115,000 and Dogecoin's share would rise to around 91%. For miners, the takeaway is that DOGE's price increasingly drives the economics of the whole Scrypt sector, including the security budget of Litecoin itself.
What to keep in mind
- Choose a pool that pays both coins in merged mining; mining only one chain leaves most of the reward on the table today.
- Price moves change the split: the 83.5% and 91% figures assume prices from October 10.
- Check the block count yourself in a public explorer: blocks per day times reward times price gives each chain's budget.