Elon Musk’s favorite cryptocurrency made a comeback at the end of last year as retail investors and traders flocked back into the market to snap up Dogecoin.

埃隆·馬斯克（Elon Musk）最喜歡的加密貨幣在去年年底捲土重來，散戶投資者和貿易商湧向市場，以搶購狗狗幣。

The coin, which was launched as a joke in 2013, has persisted over the years and remained prominent, but just how serious is the business of mining the O.G. meme coin in 2024? Well, vendors at today’s Mining Disrupt conference in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, say people are actively buying the machines to do so.

這款硬幣是在2013年開玩笑的，多年來一直堅持下去，並且仍然很突出，但是在2024年開採OG Meme Coin的業務有多嚴重？好吧，今天在佛羅里達州勞德代爾堡舉行的礦業中斷會議上的供應商說，人們正在積極購買機器。

The conference was heavily focused on the established business of Bitcoin mining, which is headlined by major, publicly traded firms and backed by President Trump, but coins like DOGE and Litecoin (LTC) also require proof-of-work mining and reward miners for supporting each chain.

該會議主要集中在既定的比特幣開採業務上，該業務是由大型，公開貿易公司和特朗普總統支持的標題，但是Doge and Litecoin（LTC）等硬幣也需要工作證明採礦並獎勵礦工來支持每條連鎖店。

In fact, the machines that mine such coins often mine them at the same time—technically dubbed “merged mining,” which lets them boost their earnings. And vendors said that miners of all stripes, from solo participants all the way up to public companies, are showing interest in order to earn a bit of extra cash.

實際上，這些硬幣經常同時挖掘出這些硬幣的機器（被稱為“合併採礦”），這使它們可以提高收入。供應商說，從獨奏參與者一直到上市公司的所有條紋的礦工都表現出興趣，以賺取額外的現金。

“Mining DOGE or LTC can help miners maximize revenue,” said Payne Cong, head of business development at ElphaPex.

Elphapex業務發展主管Payne Cong說：“採礦道或LTC可以幫助礦工最大化收入。”

And Alan Martinez from hardware maker JSBIT told Decrypt that while the miners could potentially earn $750 per month mining DOGE on just one of the nearly silent machines, big mining companies are also showing interest in snapping up the money makers.

來自硬件製造商JSBIT的艾倫·馬丁內斯（Alan Martinez）告訴Decrypt，儘管礦工可能每月只能在一台近乎無聲的機器上賺取750美元的礦業礦業，但大型礦業公司也表現出有興趣的興趣。

“We’re talking with large firms—listed on the Nasdaq—who are interested,” he said.

他說：“我們正在與大型公司（納斯達克河上的名字）交談。”

Case in point: Last year, the Nasdaq-listed VivoPower (VVPR) announced that its subsidiary Caret Digital would start mining Dogecoin and Litecoin.

例子：去年，納斯達克上市的Vivopower（VVPR）宣布其子公司Caret Digital將開始開採Dogecoin和Litecoin。

Data from CoinWarz shows that right now, miners can make profits of $5.83 per day mining DOGE with one machine. Mining Bitcoin with one machine can, on average, reap operators rewards of $9.41 per day.

Coinwarz的數據表明，目前，礦工可以用一台機器賺取每天$ 5.83的礦業利潤。用一台機器採礦比特幣平均每天收穫$ 9.41。

Public American miner BIT Mining said in December that mining DOGE was a bigger cash cow for the company than the orange coin. Mining Bitcoin is becoming increasingly difficult for smaller players as mining difficulty increases and the price of the biggest digital asset takes a hit.

美國公共礦工比特（Bit Mining）在12月表示，礦業道德（Doge）比橙色硬幣（Orange Coin）更大。隨著採礦難度的提高，最大的數字資產的價格受到打擊，採礦比特幣變得越來越困難。

DOGE gained a cult following after Tesla boss and now Trump advisor Musk started talking about the coin on X (formerly Twitter). Before that, the asset was largely seen as a big joke—but then it started to gain substantial value.

在特斯拉老闆和現在的特朗普顧問馬斯克開始談論X上的硬幣（以前是Twitter）之後，Doge獲得了追隨者。在此之前，資產在很大程度上被視為一個大笑話，但隨後它開始獲得大量價值。

Recently, Musk praised the coin’s tokenomics. DOGE has an uncapped supply with 10,000 new coins minted every minute, and the tech billionaire has argued that this makes it good as a currency, instead of Bitcoin, which is largely touted as a “digital gold.” With its limited supply, Bitcoin is seen by many as a store of value rather than a coin that’s worth spending like cash.

最近，馬斯克讚揚了硬幣的標記學。 Doge每分鐘都有10,000個新硬幣的無上限供應，而科技億萬富翁則認為，這使它成為一種貨幣，而不是比特幣，而不是比特幣，這在很大程度上被吹捧為“數字黃金”。由於供應有限，比特幣被許多人視為價值存儲，而不是值得花錢的硬幣。

But big-time miners aren’t getting small-time serious—at least not yet. Martinez said that so far, the biggest customers were small businesses, such as owners of cafes and office buildings.

但是大型礦工並沒有變得很小，至少還沒有。馬丁內斯說，到目前為止，最大的客戶是小型企業，例如咖啡館和辦公樓的所有者。

He cited an example of an unnamed coffee shop chain that he said was mining Dogecoin at six of its shops, “almost” like a side hustle, taking advantage of the heat recapture as well.

他列舉了一個不願透露姓名的咖啡店連鎖店的例子，他說，該連鎖店正在其六家商店開採Dogecoin，“幾乎”像側面喧囂一樣，也利用了熱量捕獲。

“Don’t turn on your heater—turn on your miner,” he said of DOGE mining’s additional benefits. “When was the last time a heater paid you?”

他說：“不要打開加熱器，在礦工身上轉移。” “加熱器上次付給您的是什麼時候？”