<p>Mining in Litecoin uses a significantly different algorithmic pattern which takes substantially longer to complete a "round".</p>

<p>Litecoin uses scrypt while Bitcoin uses SHA256. Usually devices are measured in Khash/Mhash for Litecoin and Mhash/Ghash for Bitcoin.</p>

<p>The initial concept behind this is that it would be GPU proof so everyone could use their PC. GPUs can still perform substantially well.</p>

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thanks! I suppose I could have found that out with more Googling but my first tries were fruitless.
jcomeau_ictx
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MaxSan
<p>I'm running bitcoind on an Ubuntu EC2 image in the Amazon cloud; on another identical image I'm running litecoind. I compiled both of these on the bitcoind instance. According to the getmininginfo command, my hashes per second for litecoind ranges around 300, while for bitcoind it is over 300000; 3 orders of magnitude greater. Is this normal, or have I botched something?</p>

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2013-04-09T07:36:09.150Z
You might want to edit the title - it makes it sound like you're not getting any hashes in litecoin.
Nick ODell
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how to check if litecoind daemon is actually hashing? Is this the 'networkkhashps' figure in getmininginfo?
David Robert Lewis
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Hash rate for litecoind is way below the one I get for bitcoind, is this normal?
jcomeau_ictx
# Hash rate for litecoind is way below the one I get for bitcoind, is this normal?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2013-04-09)

I'm running bitcoind on an Ubuntu EC2 image in the Amazon cloud; on another identical image I'm running litecoind. I compiled both of these on the bitcoind instance. According to the getmininginfo command, my hashes per second for litecoind ranges around 300, while for bitcoind it is over 300000; 3 orders of magnitude greater. Is this normal, or have I botched something?

**Tags:** bitcoind, litecoin, mining-theory, hashpower, algorithms

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: You might want to edit the title - it makes it sound like you're not getting any hashes in litecoin.  
> **username_2**: how to check if litecoind daemon is actually hashing? Is this the 'networkkhashps' figure in getmininginfo?  

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_3 on 2013-04-09. Score: 2 | Accepted answer

Mining in Litecoin uses a significantly different algorithmic pattern which takes substantially longer to complete a "round".

Litecoin uses scrypt while Bitcoin uses SHA256. Usually devices are measured in Khash/Mhash for Litecoin and Mhash/Ghash for Bitcoin.

The initial concept behind this is that it would be GPU proof so everyone could use their PC. GPUs can still perform substantially well.

> **Comments:**
> **username_0**: thanks! I suppose I could have found that out with more Googling but my first tries were fruitless.  

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