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comment by Sebaensah
Sebaensah  ·  3815 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: So PWNED: 500 Million Dogecoins Mined in Malware Attack

I checked it for fun. Just roughly estimating:

If ignoring power consumption, scrypt-based coins (Litecoin, Dogecoin) are currently about 40-50 times more profitable for GPU mining than SHA-256 (Bitocin) based. CPU mining is ~125 times more profitable in favour of scrypt.