SHA256 Strikes Back: Bitcoin Mining Algorithm to Reclaim Its Throne in 2025

In 2024, Bitcoin’s SHA256 consensus algorithm was ranked third in profitability, but as of early June 2025, it shares first place with Litecoin’s Scrypt. On December 29, 2024, Scrypt, the mining algorithm for litecoin (LTC) and dogecoin (DOGE), firmly took…








