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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?
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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.
thanks! I suppose I could have found that out with more Googling but my first tries were fruitless. – jcomeau_ictx – 2013-04-09T07:45:56.830
2You might want to edit the title - it makes it sound like you're not getting any hashes in litecoin. – Nick ODell – 2013-04-09T07:36:09.150
how to check if litecoind daemon is actually hashing? Is this the 'networkkhashps' figure in getmininginfo? – David Robert Lewis – 2013-12-02T10:42:37.027