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June 13, 2014, 11:53:10 PM
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what is the difference between SHA256 and Scrypt and which one must be used for mining for better results?
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The network tries to produce one block per 10 minutes. It does this by automatically adjusting how difficult it is to produce blocks.
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June 14, 2014, 06:17:09 AM
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Not exactly sure what you mean. Different coins have different mining algorithms, you can't mine Scrypt coin by solving SHA256 and vice versa.
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June 14, 2014, 06:18:48 AM
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some googling gives these 

coinpursuit.com/pages/bitcoin-altcoin-SHA-256-scrypt-mining-algorithms/

reddit.com/r/BitcoinMining/comments/1ztaau/what_is_the_difference_between_sha256_and_scrypt/
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