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I had friend who downloaded a mining application from his tablet. I am just confuse if is it legit or not? If not, is possible in some ways? How?

Thank you guys for your ideas.

Actually you can mine now using browser. But using a website as a host.

We have app is  better that in browsers.. . 

you are in the bitcoin mining subforum, so i'll give a bitcoin mining answer: No, you cannot mine bitcoin with a tablet

Here's proof: https://www.mocacinno.com/nonspecialisedmininghardware.php
The cortex'es, allwinner's and atoms are cpu's that are commonly used in tablets... If you look at the yearly revenue, you'll see that even with an eletricity price of 5 cents/kwh, you'll lose more money in power bills than you'll ever make while mining... Let alone the fact that you can break your hardware

There are some altcoins that can be mined using a cpu/gpu, but even then, i don't think it's a wise idear to mine them on your tablet... I don't think a tablet has an efficient way of dealing with the heat that comes from a 100% cpu load over a prolonged time. In other words, even if you try to mine a coin like monero, you're probably much better off mining it on a recent desktop than mining it on a laptop, and certainly better off than using a tablet.

Thank you so much for that clear information.

Mining bitcoins with tablet is like mining gold with silver spoon. It's possible  :) :)

Your friend is probably mining with the new Electroneum app? If yes, then I guess it is legit. What is unclear is whether it is profitable or not.
Heard the App is available on Google Playstore. You should try mining with it and tell us how legit and profitable it is?

I have red some post regarding mining in gadget,and ive seen that it can but wasnt enough to get what is needed to sustain the needs..and as i think it is just a waste of time,so better do mining in a proper way and right tools.

I think many android devices actually mine, but without knowledge of their owners - botnets

There's no known Android mining botnet that is operational. But if there is, you most likely can't get it on your device provided that you use trusted sources for apps such as Google Play. Unless you download some app that manages to slip through Google's checks. There was a botnet with over 300 Play Store apps that was taken down in August.

And to answer OPs question, there probably are some mining apps for android that are legit. You will kill your device and NEVER make anything by using them.

Don't worry it's legit.Use Gridcoin and you can mine on any number of mixed devices, I have a powerful PC on Win10, an old laptop on Win10, x2 galaxy S6 Android, an Xperia z4 tablet Android, a Pi3 on Linux, a Pi2 on Raspian and even on my mums PC when she runs it. The only devices you can't use are iPhone or iPad, cos of Apple licencing.

The best mining for now is  using hardware of gpu, but the app of tablet is possible because of technology of bitcoins, many case in mining is use gpu not popular an apps to mining btc. in next next year no matter what happen the technology of mining is possible an app and not to gpu too.

You are missing a few key points.

1) Are they saying they are using your phones power to mine?
2) Are they selling cloud mining?
3) Is it just a game?

If 1 is the answer then it is a lie. This does not exist yet.
If 2 is the answer then it is most likely a scam. (even reputable companies in the past turned out to be scams) Just be careful
If 3 is the answer then it probably is legit.

Idk but i found it on my facebook home, he just use unused tab for mine.. and it's free he said

This is probably what the original poster's friend downloaded to mine,
https://cryptosoft.org/

They claim to have an ability to stake mine with their system.
Mine what

That is not what I checked into. :-[

Maybe their own ethereum based tokens. ::)
I do not know because as soon as I saw mining from just downloading an app

I switched off. :-X

It absolutely waste of time buddy because mining needs more hash powers to get good rewards even the powerful CPU can't get the rewards how do you think that you can get rewards using mobile or tablet.So its better to invest some money to get good rewards.

I think you can mine bitcoin on tablet but consider the consequences when mining bitcoin, it consumes so much energy of your tablet, like in computer which is also plug into the electricity if you really want to mine on your tablet and charge it while mining there's a tendency that your tablet will explode or be broken. That's why mining is not applicable in tablets or smartphones although many apps in google play that say's you can mine bitcoin using your phone just read the reviews on it before you try that app so that your time wont be wasted installing that app. ;D

Here we go, once again,...
No, it's very, very unwise to mine bitcoins with your GPU, your CPU, your phone's GPU, your phone's CPU, a tablet, a supercomputer, your fridge, pen and paper,...
There are devices being produced that have the sole purpose of creating sha256d hashes, they're called ASIC's (they should be called sha256d ASIC's, since the term ASIC in itself is also applicable in other branches).
These ASIC's are so efficient, they pushed the difficulty so high it's impossible to make any money mining anything but the latest gen ASIC.

Don't belief me, here are the calculations for some CPU/GPU's => https://www.mocacinno.com/nonspecialisedmininghardware.php




This, i can believe... This is not bitcoin mining, but altcoin mining. Monero is known to be CPU minable, however, personally, i wouldn't risk breaking my phone for a couple of bucks a month.

So try and tell us if it is available, then why is it illegal. The only drawback is that it can be pirated, then of course very scant and limited not worth any attention.

It's probably a scam as there's no way to know if the developer is actually skimming your hashes off the top and sending them to his own pool. But if it isn't then it's still probably not worth it since you'd eventually wear out your hardware or the cost of electricity would be more than the money you'd make.

So if you got devices you don't care about and free power, you might be able to make a couple pennies  ;)

your friend may not know or he is just using a new app.
better use the browser only.

You are going to use $11 electric and make $0.001 congrats!

I think if he mines Electroneum then I should say I guess it’s legit since there is also altcoins that also requires android phone or ios, because if we push to mine coins that needs to have huge capital then that is hard since mining is really expensive to have.

There are some legit mining application and we can used browser to mine bitcoin but some of them are only scam you only waste your time and it will harm you gadget that is why this is not recommended if you want to mine for long period of time. Much better to build your mining hardware and buy good quality of equipment.

Some apps do mining like Coin Pot but it's always recommend to use a computer or laptop. I personally tried with my android phone it freezes every time if I open particular app only for mining. :) :) :)

That's actually very interesting! Botnets are dead... mmm

Possible but not efficient. You are better using that tablet in many other things except mining. If you want to mine, I suggest you use an ASIC miner.

I have heard that there are some apps that allow you to mine with your mobile or tablet, but I haven't seen or try any. Friend of mine have tried a mobile app, and from what he said it was legit. He was able to mine some small amount, but because it was too low amount he quited fast. I would suggest to you, don't waste your time and resources on that. It is just waste of time, or you can try it and see for your self.

Yes, it's monero, altcoin mining. But the risk to break your phone due to over heat and push the cpu, it's not worth.
People can't mine bitcoin easily through CPU, GPU, browser phone or tablet as it's not profitable and not worth at all compare to the risk, you need real hardware such as antminer s9 to mining bitcoin. Just simply like that.

It will really be impossible for a tablet to mine bitcoin, even GPUs are not profitable if you will use it to mine bitcoin. You have to verify it first if that application don't have any malwares just to make sure, or maybe they will ask you to do some payments first and will eventually scam you.

We can't say it is scam but the reward will be very very less if you mine through mobile just do some research about mining the you will realize we need powerful computers to mine and to get good rewards we can't expect the same reward through a mobile which is designed to perform simple operations like apps and playing games.

It is possible some altcoins with the small devices like mobile or tablet but most of cloud mining and these kind of application oriented mining options are not legit and they will scam once they get into the site and they will send a mbtc at least to receive the mined bitcoins. Please be aware of scam sites.

Minning is not possible with any software.all softwares are fake. Minning Rig price was start from 120$ .

Probably. You would just destroy your tablets hardware as the tablet is not made for mining and for heavy games. If it can't even run a heavy video game you should not mine, simply because its not profitable. You can try mining on browser, but i suggest you to use a old pc that is nearly dead. Otherwise if you would use your main pc it would die soon then expected. Maybe after a few years if phones/tablets can run heavy graphical games it than maybe could mine, but still its a tablet not a pc thats like a ferrari.

Most probably that application is a scam app, it will ask you to pay for something in order to continue with their service.
It is impossible for a tablet to mine bitcoin. ASIC miners are the only device nowadays that can profitably mine bitcoin.

It is hard to do and I think spent more time and our phone can maybe over heat and there is a possibility to break our phone than using our computer to mine. I think if you gave a computer shop you can mine them all if there is no player playing but consume more electricity so it is better to mine if we have free electricity or maybe if we have solar.

It may can be legit but you will end up with earning 1 cent in a year  ;D ;D ;D ;D

Mining in tablet is not possible, As all of us know doing mining in well set GPU is not possible. It take cooler to cool the heat produced by the process.If the Mining process is done in tablet means, it will burst due to over heating process. My suggestion for you is avoid of doing Mining in tablet.

I looked a bit here and there in the internet but i couldn't find website that said anything about mining through mobile app. Even if it is possible, I don't think it is profitable enough. I think it is good to mine from PC or even better money it directly.

If you have free power then you could make some money, it is actually not worth doing, may be if you wear out your hardware or the cost of electricity would be more than the money you would make.
It is like you are going to spend $12-13 to make $0.001, hope you got it, i believe we can make something worth.

Know about ASIC's which are called sha256d hashes, there are few devices that produce.
Mining bitcoin with GPU, CPU, Your phone's CPU, a tablet etc
These devices produce with a main purpose of creating sha256d hashes which are ASIC's

We could say it is a scam, if there is no way to know, how the developer is actually skimming your hashes off and directing to his own pool.
I strongly recommend you to mine with advanced ASIC's to make it Legit.

Every Free mining application in the internet are totally fake and scam OP are wasting time money and also effort for doing a fake mining its so hard to mine in the tablet or smart phone if I to you stop that stupid thing if you really want to mine bitcoin or other altcoin buy a mining equipment but it cost so high but it will give you a good return.

I can see it working, I don't see why I shouldn't, it would just be a very slow and painful process for your tablet and it would most likely overheat and possibly die on you a lot from over heating, so I would just stick to mining with a computer of with real mining software and electronics means for mining, like and Antminer.

mining bitcoin through a smartphone is not a good idea.
it totally wastes your time and slowly damages your phone.

I downloaded telegram and started playing games, is it legit? or can I really get bitcoins? I am a new member here and am new to earning bitcoin. If anyone can help me, that would be great. Thanks!

Did anyone has positive results?

Actually you can mine now using the browser. But using a website as a host. actually

My cousin had some malware app which was mining coins in the background. Tablet was very laggy and hot all the time. Needed to recharge 3 times a day. His stupid head decided to reinstall tablet only after month.

Bitcoin mining power is calculated on the hashing power that you can provide on a pool
to solve those blocks. ASIC miners have TERA HASHES how could a tablet get a chunk
of the pool if your power is 1000 less that others?

It is just a scam you will spend more cost that your earnings.These kind of mining will give you earnings around $0.1 per month if you still wanna continue your tablet mining just go ahead.
But proper mining needs ASIC miners which are the best to mine bitcoins so buy one of these miner and install it on your home then you can earn around $300 to $400 per month based on the electricity cost of your country.

Many are legit but that is wasting of time and not are usefull its little of earnings that u got in that and ur tablet will not succed for minings it will break ur tablet.