The DOGE block reward has been fixed since 2015. What the Litecoin halving changes for DOGE miners.
The Dogecoin block reward is fixed at 10,000 DOGE since block 600,000 (2015) and never decreases.
Current DOGE block
6,457,222
≈ 14.4 million DOGE per day, ≈ 5.26 billion DOGE per year
Litecoin halving and DOGE incomeScrypt ASIC income right now: DOGE 83.5%, LTC 16.5%. If the LTC reward were already 3.125 LTC, at today's prices and difficulty income would be 8.2% lower.
From pool node data and prices · updated 12:01 UTCNo. Since block 600,000, mined on February 25, 2015, the Dogecoin block reward has been fixed at 10,000 DOGE. It will not decrease at any block. The developers decided this back in 2014: a constant issuance instead of a shrinking one.
Dogecoin did have halvings in its first year, and they came fast, every 100,000 blocks. The reward fell from 250,000 to 15,625 DOGE in less than a year and then switched to a fixed 10,000.
Dates are the UTC time of the block. Before block 145,000 the reward was random within set limits.
| Blocks | From | Block reward |
|---|---|---|
| 1–99,999 | 2013-12-08 | random, up to 1,000,000 DOGE |
| 100,000–144,999 | 2014-02-14 | random, up to 500,000 DOGE |
| 145,000–199,999 | 2014-03-17 | 250,000 DOGE |
| 200,000–299,999 | 2014-04-28 | 125,000 DOGE |
| 300,000–399,999 | 2014-07-15 | 62,500 DOGE |
| 400,000–499,999 | 2014-10-02 | 31,250 DOGE |
| 500,000–599,999 | 2014-12-14 | 15,625 DOGE |
| 600,000 onward | 2015-02-25 | 10,000 DOGE, unchanged |
Dogecoin finds a block about every minute, around 1,440 blocks a day. That is about 14.4 million new DOGE a day and about 5.26 billion a year. There is no supply cap.
Issuance is constant in coins, so in percentage terms it falls over time: the same 5.26 billion a year is a smaller share of a larger total every year.
Dogecoin is mined on Scrypt ASICs together with Litecoin through merged mining. The same work counts on both networks, and the miner gets both rewards. Litecoin halves in 2027: the LTC reward will be cut in half while the DOGE reward stays the same.
So a Scrypt ASIC's total income drops only by the part that comes from LTC. The calculation above, when node data is available, shows how much of the income each coin brings today. It is arithmetic on today's rewards, difficulties and prices, not a forecast. If some miners switch off after the halving, difficulty on both networks falls and the rest earn more coins for the same hashrate.
RuPool has no separate DOGE stratum: connect a Scrypt ASIC to the LTC stratum and Dogecoin is credited separately, together with Litecoin. FPPS payouts once a day, 1% pool fee.
Dogecoin has no halving and will not have one. Since block 600,000 (2015-02-25) the reward has been fixed at 10,000 DOGE per block.
10,000 DOGE plus transaction fees. A block is found about once a minute.
No. About 5.26 billion DOGE are issued every year, and the total grows without a limit.
The reward in DOGE will not change. Only the part of a Scrypt ASIC's income that comes from LTC will shrink. The calculation at the top of the page shows each coin's current share when node data is available.
On RuPool, DOGE is mined only together with LTC through merged mining: the ASIC connects to the LTC stratum and earns both coins.