Fun fact: Dogecoin has 80% of litecoin hashrate

Wait a joke coin has about 80% of a hashrate of a seventh largest coin? How is that possible? Well because of merged mining. Merged mining is the process of allowing two different crypto currencies based on the same algorithm to be mined simultaneously. Think of as free mining for miners. Litecoin miners mine litecoin as their main source of income while Dogecoin and Viacoin are extras. In bear runs, merged mine coins give extra $ to miners to survive longer while in bull runs it becomes a whole lot of $.