Soqupool.com just launched 2 days ago, pool fees are 1.68%, pool merge mines LTC, DOGE, and SOQ.

Check out the calculator on the home page. A 9500MH/s L7 at 10 cent power is currently losing $2.28 a day with just LTC and DOGE.

SOQ is currently trading at $.00047 on Safetrade.com (will also be on Nonkyc in a couple days). Adding SOQ to the equation adds $155.55 for day to the mix. Not bad at all for miners that have been unprofitable for over a year!!

****Do your own homework, this is not financial advice!!! I am just a miner myself sharing what I see as an opportunity***

Hi I wonder if anyone can help me . My Fluminer L1 just stopped hashing . I have looked at the logs but have no idea what the reason could be . Any help would be much appreciated

Hi everyone. I recently got a L3+ to mess around and tinker with and maybe make a room heater. I was playing around with custom firmware and based on other posts it seems like AwesomeMiner and HiveOS are the recommended ones that I can still find links for (L3's are so old that many links are dead or not supported anymore). I noticed that AwesomeMiner seems to perform much worse compared to HiveOS when looking at pool hash rate.

I ran both for 12 hours and on device my hash rate is 73 MH/s (I'm running very low during testing). On Powerpool my reported hashrate when running Awesome was about ~20% lower than expected. Then I switched to HiveOS to test it out and the reported hashrate climbed very close 70MH/s. Below are the numbers in MH/s.

Looking at HiveOS the amount of Work Utility was 85k vs AwesomeMiners 56k and that follows what I saw with the hashrate. Also computing the amount of dev fee by using the DiffA# per pool shows the fees for both are pretty close to the 2% I'd expect.

Note: Same frequency and voltage on both. Both firmwares report almost identical watts from the wall (measured with smart plug). HiveOS produced many more HW errors.

Another thing I noticed was on HiveOS the devFee last share time could be 30 min or 3 hours while on AwesomeMiner it is between a few seconds to 10 min. I wonder if HiveOS is doing time slicing of the devfee vs what ever AwesomeMiner is doing, maybe running in parallel to my pool?

Has anyone noticed problems with AwesomeMiner's reported hashrate on their pool? I don't really like HiveOS' web interface and no autofan speed but if I'm going to lose 20% of my hashrate I can manage.

EDIT: After some experimenting with various settings and other firmware, I think my problem is with Awesomeminer itself. Other firmwares with dev fees don't show this problem. I found a copy of ASIC.IO firmware v18 and v24 and after 24 hours my pool hashrate is very close to my miner's reported value. The Bitmain firmware also works fine. My suspicion is one of the dev pools in Awesomeminer is being blocked or my shares rejected and the way Awesomeminer works will prevent my pool's shares to be blocked until the dev fee is paid for that time period. It could also be due to the L3+ firmware being years old and just out of date. I've decided to run the ASIC.IO v24 firmware since its very close to HiveOS but doesn't require a HiveOS account to get full features. If anyone runs into something similar I can try to help.

I've been building a small hobby project: a Scrypt fork of Dogecoin 1.14 that

adds a native post-quantum address type (ML-DSA-44). It's been running since

late July, fair launch, no premine, fully open source.

I'm posting here because you all run the same scrypt hardware (L3/L7 etc.), and

I'd genuinely like feedback from people who know scrypt mining:

- Does a post-quantum address option even interest miners, or is it a solution

looking for a problem?

- For a tiny new scrypt network, what actually helped coins you've mined get

off the ground?

Happy to share technical details (difficulty algo is LWMA + DigiShield, 60s

blocks) in the comments if anyone's curious. Not trying to sell anything —

there's no exchange or price, I'm just building it and learning.

Elon Musk offers memorium bricks/plaques for Terafab. Purchased with Doge.

It’s happened several times now with the hammer miners. Any ideas or ways to check?

So a couple months ago I got 2 new Mini Doge 3s. Got them connected to a pool and they happily hashed away until this morning. Last week I got a new Asus Wifi 7 Router and re-did my mesh system. The 2 doge's are now connected by Ethernet to my Asus Wifi 6ax router. This was fine for several days until today when I checked my pool and saw they were both disconnected. So far I have : 1. Rebooted them 2. Updated the firmware. 3. Factory Reset them 4. Tried connecting with Wifi instead of ethernet. Checked all my routers settings and made sure both the AI firewall and regular firewall were turned off. 5. Power cycled all the routers and modem. 6. Tried 4 different pools. Anyone got any ideas? Appreciate it!

I’ve been running Retro Mikes Doge node. Yesterday my Hammer Miner hit a difficulty of 516G. Any way to see why I did not win the block? Surely thought I would have been successful with this!

I decided to point one of my older units toward the Qubic network for a bit, mostly because I was getting tired of watching the standard Scrypt rewards struggle against my power bill.

This isn't a deep dive, just some quick ops notes for anyone curious:

Power/Thermal: No surprises here. Power draw at the wall looks basically the same as standard mining. Temps are staying in the normal range (stable around 60C).

Setup: Honestly, it wasn't as much of a headache as I expected. Pretty straightforward if you've messed with custom firmware before.

Yield: Still too early to have a clear picture on the efficiency side. I need more uptime to see how the numbers actually settle compared to the usual pools.

I’m mostly posting this to see if anyone else here has been running this recently. Are you seeing consistent stability on your chips? Not trying to convince anyone to switch, I’m just looking to compare notes on alternatives before I decide what to do with my other units.

I was looking for a sub $1000 Scypt miner. I found on offered by a particular vender for about $850, i think it was a volcminer mini 2ghs. I clicked the buy button and to my surprise they wanted to add a $500 duty (DDP)! I have neve seen that. I knew import fees were always there buried in the price, but wow! What I have learned is different vendors do it different ways. In the case of this vendor it seem they charge fee. pretty much everything import from china gets the $500 fee. Great if you are buying $15,000 miners but terrible if you are buy a $500 dollar miner. Other vendors just tack on the actual cost of that miner.

What is your experience?

My power isn't insane but it's not cheap either and straight doge margins feel thinner every month.

Curious what people are actually doing now. still running old L3+ units? underclocking? just eating the loss and hoping price bails you out later?

Not looking for hopium, just trying to get a feel for what other small operators are doing in 2026.

One week of Qubic DOGE mining from my side. Here are the numbers from the public dashboard for information.

Dashboard: https://doge-stats.qubic.org and https://doge.qubic.tools

Week 1 stats:

• Total DOGE contributed to network: 10 Blocks found
• % of total DOGE network hashrate (peak): 3% (65 TH/s)
• % of total DOGE network hashrate (average): ~0.1% (2-2.5 TH/s)
• My ASICs operational throughout: 3x L7

For context: the DOGE network total hashrate is approximately 2.4-2.75 PH/s. Any external contribution needs to be evaluated against that baseline to understand network impact.

My assessment after week 1: the hashrate contribution is real and verifiable. Whether additional external compute is good for the network is worth discussing - I think more distributed hashrate from a separately operated infrastructure generally strengthens decentralization, but interested in other views.

The pool is still ramping up. Hashrate fluctuates. They currently pay a fixed amount. It runs stable. For me it's too early yet to have real profitability numbers that I can post.

Feel like pool recommendations from 2 years ago are all outdated. I've been on the same pool forever and wondering if i should switch.

What's everyone using in 2026? Mostly care about payout consistency and not getting ripped on fees. Running L3+ hardware if that matters.

I’m currently building out a small-scale mining hosting site in South Dakota (270kW pilot), and I’m looking to connect with a few miners before we energize.

This isn’t a large industrial facility. The goal is to build something more controlled, transparent, and scalable over time.

A few key points:

• Pilot rate target: ~$0.0875/kWh all-in

• 480V infrastructure with containerized deployment

• Designed around high load factor (no overselling, limited phase 1 capacity)

• Direct operator access

• Transparent pricing model (based on actual utility structure)

I’m not trying to compete with the massive 10–50MW sites on price. I’m building this to be consistent, understandable, client-focused, and expandable.

Right now I’m putting together a small group of “founding miners” before powering up the site.

If you’re currently hosting somewhere (or looking for a spot), I’d genuinely appreciate feedback or questions.

Even if you’re not interested.

My goal is to build this the right way from day one.

im looking for a low payout pool that will convert doge to shib any advice i would appreciate it

Bull and bear reasons:

Bear:

• Macro liquidity remains tight
• Market facing multiple pressures
• Tightening regulation and rising compliance costs
• Weak market sentiment and capital flows
• Structural risks remain
• Communities are very inactive. Many mining communities like F2Pool, cryptomining sub reddit are very inactive. Staking communities are better than mining, but less topics than 2025 and many are leaving.

Bull:

• Expectation of macro liquidity shift
• Sustained institutional capital inflow
• Historic breakthrough in regulatory policies
• Strong Bitcoin fundamentals
• Continuous technological and ecological innovation
• AI says the market is in a deep correction phase of a bull market. LOL

Running the numbers on current DOGE mining economics at 40.3M difficulty (verified CoinWarz, March 2026):

Antminer L7 at 9,500 MH/s:

• Daily DOGE output: approximately 50 DOGE at current difficulty
• Power consumption: 3,450W = 82.8 kWh/day
• Break-even electricity (at current DOGE price): approximately $0.082/kWh
• Profitability margin at $0.07/kWh: approximately +$0.37/day per unit Antminer L9 at 17,000 MH/s:
• Daily DOGE output: approximately 88-90 DOGE
• Power consumption: 3,500W = 84 kWh/day
• More efficient at scale

For reference, merge mining with Litecoin on the same hardware adds LTC rewards with no additional power draw - this is the primary way most serious DOGE miners are managing margins right now.

What are people here running and what's your actual electricity rate?

Seems not bad. 14 $ a day.