Dogecoin mining in November 2026: why a Litecoin ASIC now earns mostly DOGE

In November 2026 there is really only one practical way to mine Dogecoin: merged mining with Litecoin on a Scrypt ASIC. The twist is that the machine is nominally a Litecoin miner, yet most of its income now comes from DOGE. Here is how it works, what popular models earn at early November figures and which electricity price you need to stay out of the red.

How merged mining works

Litecoin and Dogecoin both run on Scrypt, so the same hashing work can be checked against two networks at once. The technique is called AuxPoW. The miner builds a Litecoin block that carries a reference to a Dogecoin block. If a hash meets Dogecoin's target, the Dogecoin network accepts it as valid work. If it also meets the stricter Litecoin target, a Litecoin block appears too. You pay for electricity once and collect two rewards.

Dogecoin switched this on on September 11, 2014 at block 371,337. Since then the whole Litecoin hashrate also protects Dogecoin. A side effect for miners: you do not choose between the two coins, a pool with merged mining credits you with both.

Why DOGE brings most of the money

• A Dogecoin block pays a fixed 10,000 DOGE and arrives about once a minute. There is no supply cap and no halving.
• A Litecoin block pays 6.25 LTC plus fees every 2.5 minutes. The next halving to 3.125 LTC is due at block 3,360,000, expected around summer 2027.
• According to cryptoticker's calculation for November 3, 2026, about 86% of a Scrypt miner's daily revenue already comes from Dogecoin and only 14% from Litecoin.

After the Litecoin halving the DOGE share will grow even further, so the Dogecoin price matters more for a Scrypt farm than the Litecoin price does.

What a full-size ASIC earns: Antminer L9

The Bitmain Antminer L9 delivers 16 GH/s and, depending on the seller's spec, draws 3,260 to 3,360 W. At November 3 network values it mines about 90 DOGE and 0.02 LTC a day, worth roughly €6.94 before pool fees. At 3.36 kW it burns 80.6 kWh a day, so the break-even electricity price is about 8.6 euro cents per kWh. On German household power at 36.18 cents per kWh the same machine loses more than €22 a day.

Solo mining makes little sense here: on its own an L9 would find a Dogecoin block only about once every 111 days, so a pool is the normal choice.

Home Scrypt miners: small, quiet and still loss-making on grid power

A comparison of home models published on November 2 puts the yield of 1 GH/s at about 4.28 DOGE and 0.0013 LTC a day, or around €0.34. The three bestsellers look like this:

• Fluminer L2: 1 GH/s at 230 W, 40 dB, break-even at about €0.062 per kWh.
• Elphapex DG Home 1: 2.1 GH/s at 620 W, 295 J/GH, break-even at about €0.049 per kWh.
• VolcMiner D1 Mini: 2.2 GH/s at 500 W, 227 J/GH, break-even at about €0.063 per kWh.

With the EU household average of about €0.28 per kWh, every one of them costs four to six times more in electricity than it mines. There is one curious upside: Dogecoin difficulty is low enough that solo mining becomes a lottery with real odds. A DG Home 1 has roughly a 28% chance per year of hitting a full 10,000 DOGE block, about once every three years on average.

What to check before you start

• Your tariff. Compare it with the break-even of your model. For grid power in most of Europe the answer is negative.
• The pool's payout. Some pools pay the Dogecoin share directly in DOGE, others fold it into the Litecoin payout. This decides which coins you will hold and store.
• Heat. Every watt becomes heat. In winter a home miner can replace an electric heater, which changes the math if you would heat the room electrically anyway.
• Price and difficulty. Since more than 80% of the income is DOGE, a rise in the Dogecoin price improves the numbers quickly, and a drop wipes them out just as fast.

The bottom line: Dogecoin mining in November 2026 pays only with electricity below 5 to 9 euro cents per kWh or with heat you would use anyway. Everyone else gets more DOGE per euro by simply buying the coin, while miners with cheap power should pick a pool with merged mining and watch the DOGE price more closely than LTC.