Current Dogecoin difficulty and how it moves day by day. Difficulty is recalculated every block. Data comes from RuPool's own full nodes and refreshes every minute.
33.68M
Exact value: 33,682,239
39.01M
-3.08%
Lower than the previous 24 hours: miner revenue went up
Difficulty is recalculated every block (DigiShield), so there is no retarget forecast.
Average block time, last 24 hours
1:03
target 1:00Network hashrate (estimate)
2.67 PH/s
Averaging window
1,440
blocks · about 24 hours| Date (UTC) | Block | Daily average | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 14, 2026 | 6,456,960 | 39.5M | -1.60% |
| Nov 13, 2026 | 6,455,520 | 40.14M | +0.86% |
| Nov 12, 2026 | 6,454,080 | 39.8M | -1.30% |
| Nov 11, 2026 | 6,452,640 | 40.32M | +2.07% |
| Nov 10, 2026 | 6,451,200 | 39.51M | -7.72% |
| Nov 9, 2026 | 6,449,760 | 42.81M | +1.71% |
| Nov 7, 2026 | 6,448,320 | 42.09M | +2.95% |
| Nov 6, 2026 | 6,446,880 | 40.88M | +1.63% |
| Nov 5, 2026 | 6,445,440 | 40.23M | -6.10% |
| Nov 4, 2026 | 6,444,000 | 42.84M | +8.59% |
| Nov 3, 2026 | 6,442,560 | 39.45M | -4.40% |
| Nov 2, 2026 | 6,441,120 | 41.27M | -2.24% |
| Nov 1, 2026 | 6,439,680 | 42.21M | -0.38% |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 6,438,240 | 42.37M | +8.30% |
Dogecoin produces a block about once a minute, and its difficulty is recalculated after each one. It wasn't always like that: after launching in December 2013, the network retargeted every 240 blocks and reacted late to sudden waves of miners arriving and leaving. From block 145,000 in 2014, Dogecoin switched to the DigiShield algorithm.
So Dogecoin has no epochs and no next adjustment to forecast. Instead of a forecast, this page shows the current value, the 24-hour average and the trend.
DigiShield looks at the time of the last block but applies only one eighth of its deviation from the one-minute target. If a block took 2 minutes instead of one, difficulty drops by about 11%, not by half. That way a single unusually slow or fast block doesn't rock the network.
On top of that there is a clamp: the block time it uses can't go beyond −25% to +50% of the target. In difficulty terms, a single block can move it by at most about a third: up to 1.33 times higher or down to 0.67 of the previous value.
Even with damping, the instantaneous value is noisy: blocks are found at random, runs of fast and slow blocks alternate, and the tip difficulty can vary by almost a factor of two within a day. That is why the top of the page shows the 24-hour average difficulty and its change from the previous day, and the chart draws a 7-day moving average over the daily points.
For the same reason, RuPool calculates DOGE accruals using the average difficulty over the day rather than the value at a particular block. Otherwise a miner's income would depend on which random spike or dip their work happened to land on.
Next to difficulty, the page shows the 24-hour average block time against the one-minute target and an estimate of network hashrate. Hashrate is derived from difficulty: one block takes on average difficulty times 2 to the power of 32 Scrypt hashes, and a block is expected every 60 seconds.
If the average block time drifts noticeably from one minute, hashrate is arriving or leaving faster than DigiShield can retune difficulty. This usually shows up in the first hours after a large shift in Scrypt hashrate.
In 2014, at block 371,337, Dogecoin enabled merged mining (AuxPoW): a Dogecoin block can be found with the same work as a Litecoin block. Since then most of Dogecoin's hashrate has come from Litecoin miners, for whom DOGE is extra income that needs no extra hardware.
DOGE difficulty is still its own value, calculated separately from LTC's, but largely the same hashrate stands behind both. RuPool has no separate DOGE stratum: an ASIC connects to the LTC stratum and earns both coins.
Since early 2015 the Dogecoin block reward has been fixed at 10,000 DOGE, with no halvings. At a constant hashrate, income in coins therefore depends almost entirely on Dogecoin difficulty and, to a lesser extent, on transaction fees. There are no sudden halvings of income, so the 7-day average difficulty is a more reliable basis for estimates than the current value.
DOGE payouts on RuPool use the FPPS scheme with a 1% fee, separately from LTC payouts.
Dogecoin recalculates difficulty at every block, and blocks are found at random. A run of fast blocks pushes it up, a run of slow ones pulls it down, and within a day the tip value can differ by almost a factor of two. That is why the daily average and the 7-day moving average are the numbers to watch.
Because there is no separate adjustment event: DigiShield retunes difficulty after every block. There is nothing to predict except the overall trend, and the trend is visible on the chart with its moving average.
The average Dogecoin network difficulty over the day, not the value at an individual block. That keeps accruals independent of random spikes and dips within the day.
No. Dogecoin is mined together with Litecoin through merged mining: a Scrypt ASIC connects to RuPool's LTC stratum and earns both coins. You only need to add a Dogecoin wallet address in your account.
Multiply difficulty by 2 to the power of 32 and divide by the 60-second target block time to get hashrate in hashes per second. The page does this for you.