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I'm trying to figure out which software to download for my Ubuntu 12.04 box to start some litecoin mining. Via google search, I keep coming up with cgminer for both bitcoin and litecoin mining.

How does that work, is the same software cgminer used for both bitcoin and litecoin mining?

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Cgminer can be used to mine both LTC and BTC. When executed to mine Litecoin one would need to add the command line switch --scrypt It is also worth noting that the last version to support GPU mining and scrypt is version 3.7.2 Versions after that have all GPU mining capability removed.

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  • All versions after 3.7.2 have GPU mining capability removed? As in anything newer than 3.7.2 has had GPU mining removed? Why is that? – oshirowanen Dec 14 '13 at 16:09
  • going forward they will only support asic mining but I suspect the open source community will fork the project and potentially continue supporting gpus – Mark S. Dec 14 '13 at 21:18

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