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Scrypt · air-cooled
Bitmain Antminer L9
The current Scrypt flagship. Litecoin and Dogecoin are merge-mined, so a single machine earns both — which the single-coin figures on this page do not capture.
At your electricity rate
$/kWh
Operating profit
$2,677.77
per day · 49.7885 LTC
Break-even electricity
$33.27
per kWh · $33.21 above your rate
Payback period
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Revenue / day$2,682.60
Electricity / day$4.84
Energy / day80.6 kWh
Revenue assumes a 1% pool fee at the current LTC price and network difficulty, with the machine running continuously. Payback needs a hardware cost, which we do not publish because we have no verified retailer feed — add your own purchase price in the calculator. Your rate is saved in this browser and applies across the site.
Specifications
| Manufacturer | Bitmain |
|---|---|
| Model | Antminer L9 |
| Algorithm | Scrypt |
| Coins | Litecoin, Dogecoin |
| Hashrate | 16,000 GH/s |
| Power | 3,360 W |
| Efficiency | 0.2 W/GH |
| Cooling | Air |
| Type | ASIC |
| Released | 2024 |
| Home suitable | No — noise and power draw |
| Dimensions | 400 × 195 × 290 mm |
| Weight | 14.1 kg |
| Operating temperature | 5 to 45 °C |
Data provenance
Manufacturer datasheet as published by retailers; hashrate and power corroborated across multiple sources. Last verified 2026-08-03.
Note: Published sound ratings for this model vary between 75 dB and 80 dB, so we have not given one. Either way it is a loud machine.
Any field not listed above is one we could not verify for this machine. We would rather leave a row out than publish a figure you cannot check. Where published sources disagree, we say so instead of picking one. How we verify specifications.
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