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I’m a complete beginner with this , does anyone have any tips for apps to mine bitcoin through android phones? I read various stories on doing this, some not so great but thought I’d give it a try

No, you can't mine bitcoin with an android phone and if there is some software out there to mine bitcoin with android I am sure it's not profitable and it may risk your phone life due to high temp. while mining.

Don't fall for any scammy apps out there claiming it could mine a certain sats for just tapping an ads or opening them

Mining BTC is not for phones..

Youre just wasting time, energy, and worst could steal your phones information

By stories, I bet you've heard of "Browser-based mining" and "Mobile miners",
but any of these aren't really "mining" per definition.

If you're too enthusiastic to try it, here's some info:

• You can actually earn a few satoshi (uBTC) by visiting faucets that offer "Mining" using your browser (though, almost all known faucets removed this feature).
  
• Or try one of the most famous "mobile mining" gimmick ever created to earn a few centavo-value ETN (Electroneum);
  I don't want to link to avoid advertisement, just google search the keywords (I bet that this is the one that you've heard over the internet).
  

You sure can mine BTC or any nearly any other alt with your phone, but the problem is it's just not going to be profitable at all. All phones have terrible heat dissipation due to a lack of active cooling, and you're not doing your phone a favor by mining on it. If you're trying to mine alts, though, your PC is likely going to perform better than a phone at mining, though you'll have to take into account what hardware you have and your electrical rates to determine whether or not you're profitable or not.


If you have a laptop, do not mine with that either. Laptops are also generally crap with heat dissipation, not worth your time.

Don't do it if you don't want to see your android phone can damage. Your phone will be getting hot, and even it can blow in any second. We don't suggest mining on an android phone, and it's not worth it. Maybe you can try to mining using your computer but not using your laptop because it's the same as you used the phone.

But right now, you cannot get much reward from the mining if you don't have big power to mining.

I think you have false information. You cannot mine Bitcoin using your mobile phone. More powerful equipment is required for mining.

There's no way you could mine bitcoin over your android phone, do not believe on some scammer who says it's possible to mine bitcoin on your android. Even the famous ETN mobile mining isn't actually a mining.

I once upon a time by the way tried mining on Android. For the experiment. MTK processor 8 cores, the speed is negligible, but heated so that you can burn. It's completely pointless.
But POS can be mined on the phone for some coins that have a full wallet for the phone, but you need to download the blockchain. There was such a coin TX, there was such an opportunity.

This topic should be under Bitcoin > Mining this is altcoin mining session

if I had merit I'd definitely send this post some.

maybe in the future we'll have some chance of seeing phones preparred for "micro-mining" or no way it's gonna happen?

Definitely not for bitcoin mining but maybe for altcoins, if I'mnot wrong XTL had a project like that.

regarding OP question:
Please, just don't do it.
better to buy some bitcoin or invest in a couple of Rigs.

The stories you read are probably cloud mining which tells that we can mine bitcoin or it is a faucet type but that has a difference on mining btc. You need to have tool such as GPU and a power energy source to do this which I think phones can't probably cant supply unless someone integrate it on the mobile but that would be useless.

I heard this project Taucoin which is planning to build a mobile app mining and I guess they have potential to pulled it off using a different consensus protocol. But for btc not possible or never will using POW.

MTK is much hotter processors than Snapdragon so it is not surprising.


It is a pity that the mining on the phone does not make sense, and then at least use it could be that he worked out the funds invested in it

Most people would agree that mobile mining is not worth it. When factoring in high energy costs potential data fees and low computing power, mobile mining is a very difficult inefficient way to earn cryptocurrency.

While we will likely see some advancements in mobile/tablet computing power and functionality of mobile mining apps, it still appears that mobile mining will be no match for traditional mining for the foreseeable future.

I doubt if there are even 'legit' mining apps available for mobile devices, using it and damaging device is later thing.

You can mine bitcoin using your smartphone but i think it would consume you so much time to earn at least 0.0001BTC but there's a project here in the forum that is a new type of mining where in you can mine through your mobile phone and not using any GPUs or any other mining equipment.

You can read this thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5120083.0 and study it... I haven't tried it yet but it seems that it's legit

I don't know either, but I only could suggest him not to use his mobile devices to mining. He can try to use apps for mining electroneum, but I don't know how much he will get because I never tried before. I care for my mobile, and I don't want to see my mobile is damage.

No Android device is good for mining, not even the latest S10+ mobile from Samsung and the reason is simple , no mobile device is designed to handle a lot of heat which is generated from the mining process.

Mining will only kill your device in a very short amount of time for pennies.

i see many app for android - but they take very smoll profit and your phone have very big temperature
and I met an app that tried to steal my data.

Which mining app allows you to mine btc? Afaik, there isn't any. Even those high rate miners are no longer sufficient, what do you expect from mobile devices.

Even laptops are not good for btc mining because they can't handle the temperature. If you try to mine on android phone that will end with a broken phone and nearly no money for mining.

Bitcoin android mining isn't relevant, it's too complicated. If you want to make a mining on your phone, you can try this coin: Electroneum (ETN). Seriously, you need a powerful asic and a video card to do the mining.

No they can handle the temp but the problem is it's not worth it to mine with laptop and it may slow down the speed of your laptop and honestly it takes years before you can make a 100 sat.

For phone maybe if there is some shitcoin you can mine altcoin without value and only time can tell if the value of the coin increase or not but it may also lead to destroy your smartphone like wifi signal, network signal or possible it become deadboot due to hardware failure. So not worth it to mine with android phones.

It seems to me that given the complexity of mining and the fact that now even with an average video card there is nothing to do in mining ... mining on smartphones has no chance.

In this thread shows the whole farm of smartphones! (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5120083.msg50381322#msg50381322)
Don't really know how this is true and appropriate!

I think this is nonsense! ASIC and fpga are now actively used. Even videocards now give a small profit. What can you earn on a smartphone?

I have an old android tablet which is mining Electroneum (ETN). I have downlowded the APPs in the playstore. 
It mines  aprox. 4-5 ETN daily, does not overheat and the battery lasts for 2 days.

Is roughly $ 0.06 for two days! Which is about $ 11 a year! Very profitable! ;D

Before you actually even ask the question "is it profitable to mine with a laptop or a smartphone", you should just sit back and think for a minute.

Currently a rig of AMD RX 570 GPUs - that are still the efficiency kings of ETH mining - is barely profitable.

How on earth do you expect a puny device to make you any money? How would you think it would create enough hash to even justify it killing its battery and heating up itself to death in the process?

Use your common sense, people. Get this stupid idea out of your head. The only crypto related thing a smartphone is good at is mobile wallets.

ohh no, at moment until the coming year it is not possible even though you have 1000 Android Samsung Galaxy S10 with the spec that high you will be defeated with ASIC and also the maximum level of difficulty.

maybe back again in 2011 and mid-2012 where the level of difficulty was low between 5k - 500k possible can still :)

ok, lately I saw a coin that can be mineable through a smartphone with a very simple, you can find it through the Google engine was called MIBCoin.

It is impossible to mien BTC with android but you can mine other coins. If we consider that a mobile is mining only a few cents then we come to the conclusion that it is not worth doing it. The electricity costs are higher and we are just destroying the battery. Howewer, if the prices of  cryptocurrencies  increase heavily one day then we could still  be rewarded .

I've come across a few programs like this before. You can be sure about it does not work. I totally see it as a waste of time. They usually aim to do this by advertising

Exactly, most of these so called 'mining' apps give peanuts to users and earn lot from ads.

mining with phone aren't recomended. when you do it, will be broken your phones.
i did mined use app bluestack android on my computer too, same case here. my pc was error and got bluescreen, need reisntaling new OS.

Why do you need mining on your phone? Or maybe you want to make a whole farm out of phones? To they all quickly broke down! ;D

there were projects that allowed to mine on phones effectively. I even mined my cryptohive on the phone in spare time

If mining do not worth it with Laptop, how is it going to worth it with phones, don't be deceived, I have seen some projects marketing this phone mining things, to me it is just like telling people what they need to here and not what they need to here and the truth is that mining requires some investment in mining gear if you are to have a chance at it

I think mining in android devices is only for fun not for profit but its a good way to start learning about mining ;)

I also saw several projects (and even participated in the bounty of one of them). It ended with the fact that the project changed the concept and from mining began to create a clicker game.
I think, in addition to the processors power, another important detail is the work of the battery on the phone..

If mining with smartphones were possible, then I guess a lot of people would try to silently install miners and run them in electronics shops because smartphones are turned on while shops are open.
The only thing that comes to my mind is SweatCoin, it's possible to mine this coin with your smartphone when you walk or run or move, It collects steps. But exchange is a real problem, it's only possible through official website.

It is completely possible to mine on a smartphone, the problem is there’s just so little to be made most android applications don’t harbor stealth miners inside of them. It’s more worthwhile for someone malicious to infect phones and get money through other means. Windows-based computers and other laptops and desktops with non-ARM processors are a different story, though, and many applications intended for those devices can harbor stealth miners that mine in the background for a profit.

As many have said, its not that its impossible...but doing it would be horrendous for the phone. It isn't built to handle that in terms of heat and in terms of power consumption. It would kill the battery and wouldn't make you anywhere near a positive return.

It would be better to just buy whatever coin you're looking for. Or if you're looking to do real mining to buy a rig specifically built to handle mining.

It`s an interesting game. For some newbies  it  could be the first introduction to the mining.  Not much profitable, but interesting.

Since you've already heard a lot of stories about it, I think it's enough because mining in android phone is completely worthless. You'll be only wasting your time, electricity and effort in it. Phones are not made for mining. If you really insist to try it, you could try mining in some faucet to earn some very small amount of satoshi in a very long period of time.

I don't think it can be done when mining on Android, and if there are those offering mining in Andriod, don't be fooled because the possibility is a fraud that is under the guise of mining, and until now many people have been deceived by mining on Android, even though it's possible the results are not as expected, because the Android function is not for mining.

I assure you -you can mine some coins on your phone.
If you have a good processor on your smartphone and your smartphone is too powerful-look here on the forum -there are many coins that can be mined using the processor.
Note that the heat exchange must be provided by an external cooler.

It seems to me that it is absurd to get coins to use a smartphone for this purpose? This is a hello for a smartphone malfunction and the cost of the mined coins is unlikely to override the cost of repairs.

Most likely there is a virus in mind. Dont see the meaning of mining on the phone. The battery very quickly sits down and the phone itself may become unusable after a few months.

It is absurd. People get confused with pretend mining (like ETN), and the many airdrops/scams/viruses out there.

Phone processors are not designed for mining, and are not as powerful as more practical items like GPUs. Practicality is the key here - sure, you can theoretically take an expensive high end phone, access the CPU die, add an external cooler, then mine at a loss on electric costs. Probably would need to improve the power delivery, maybe solder on some new PSU power traces.

But is this sensible? No.

I guess mining on an mobile phone is not feasible and will be proved costly later on. So I think we should evaluate projects that supposedly are mobile phones mineable and maybe should shy away from them since its a little bit inappropriate. Imho.

Of course, mining on a smartphone is unprofitable. This will lead to rapid wear of the device. And besides, given the weak power of the smartphone, I do not think that this can really earn.

Didn't Electroneum recently announce their own Android mining smartphone M1? I am really wondering how this smartphone should work then, especially with the price of that phone.

I agree it's absurd. What will come next, mine on your toaster, on your tv? My tv also has android and a processor actually. Mine on your gpu's. If you dont have any, go buy some.

Most coins that are mineable with a phone at their early stage have little to no value and it can take all the time to mine just a little destroying your phone and ending with lots of hardware issues for just 2$ My advice is just do some bounties follow airdrop and stay clear of phone mining

do not mining using your smartphone because the smartphone is made not for mining and it is not designed to do hard work continuously and it will cause overheating and damage to smartphone components quickly. so if you want to do mining, start using GPU or Antminer.

Mining with your android phone is just a waste of time and  battery consumption, Android is not made for that and doing that at that extent will cause harm to your phone which may contain your vital information. Get yourself appropriate devices for mining which is profitable than these so called and Android Apps.

Yeah they did announce it in this site - https://electroneum.com/m1/ but I did not find any data to its mining profitability and also find the battery specs inferior and not advisable to mining. Imho.
 
Battery:
1600 mAh
72 hours standby
6-8 hours talk time

When project Electroneum appeared, everyone thought that there would be some restrictions so that mining could only be available from mobile devices with protection from other algorithms. But as we see the system is easy to fool.

Still wouldn't buy the M1; seems like mostly a gimmick from what I can see with Electroneum advertising potential rewards of "up to $3/month". Specs also do not look that great with 8GB internal storage and other features that are pretty basic for 2019. You can get a better value elsewhere for a phone, and you also shouldn't be buying a phone simply for mining purposes in the first place either. Not worth the premium you're paying for a basic phone IMO.

That's exactly my point. The specs for the M1 look like they came from a ten year old smart phone. But if you believe their promise of "up to $3/month", I am wondering what would be possible with the 2019s flagships. These $3 per month are probably just marketing gossip.

I totally agree with you. The price of $ 3 looks unconvincing. I think this is a marketing ploy. Although of course anything can happen on the cryptorink.

Mib coin is the only real phone mining crypto. Very profitable and can only be mined by phone.

Forget about it. At first, it will be a heavy duty work for your phone. As result it will die much earlier than you will have mined at least it's cost. Secondly, this will load a processor closer to 100%. So you will be unable to use this phone as an everyday gadget for calls, internet, etc. Or, all of this will work too slow. Third, a mining requires a certain volume of internet traffic. Mobile traffic usually is more expensive than others. So you shoul consider possible additional charges. And also there are too many scams among such apps, those especially targeted to newbies and promise high profits in a short time. But actually there is a big chance that your phone will mine a lion share of satoshi for somebody else and only a few penny for you.

Also saw this topic! But not quite sure what mibcoin mining only phones and mines into whether it at all!

This is real mining. Works only on phones. At least I didn't get to run mining on Android emulators. Tested on several emulators. But to make a big profit, you need to engage in mining on dozens of phones. So this coin is only for those who have the opportunity.

Mining with laptop is alwayse wasting time and electricity , i have tried several time with other mining coin and is not working yet!

You are saying it's very profitable?! I thought the main conclusion of this thread is that mining with your smartphone isn't really worth it. Why should it be for that MIB coin any different?

It's probably still profitable. I've been turning on mining on three different phones to check their speed, and how much they'll heat up. In General, for a period of about one hour, and during this time received more than three coins. May be he has some powerful phones, and for a day he gets 100 coins? Today 1MIB ~$0.03. With phones, power consumption can not even take into account. It would be a paltry sum. Here in some thread I read that a person gets ~$1.5 profit per day from mining on GPUs.

Why will you even think of mining Bitcoin or any other crypto coin with an Android phone?? Android phone and phones in general don't have such hardware requirement needed to mining cryptocurrency. Please get yourself a pc mining rig, that will be better than using your Android phone. But If you want to know how to setup a pc mining rig, you should go on YouTube and research there. It helped me get the needed info I need to setup a simple pc mining rig.

mining in android phones are waste of time and waste of hardware you will just break your phone or lessens its durability so its better mine on rigs  ;)

I know that now they are producing special mobile phones for mining. I can not say so much as it is a profitable business, but as for me, the mobile phone is a thing for communication and certainly not for the property. All of this is aimed solely at earning money. I know there is a coin ETN which can be mined on a smartphone. You can try it

So what were the specs of these three phones that you tried out? I know it's a bit off-topic but are there other similar coins that can only be mined on smartphones? And how exactly can it be ensured that no one uses his computer to mine it?

Checked phones with such SOC: Exynos7870 8 cores 1.6 GHz, Snapdragon 801 4 cores 2.5 GHz and MTK6592 8 cores. Exynos is the fastest, Snapdragon is about 2 times slower. MTK is even slower and warmed up like a stove.
On the phone with MTK6739 mining has not started, probably the application does not work on the screens 18:9.
As for mining on the computer, I can only say that I tried several Android emulators to run mining. Unsuccessfully.
From other coins for phones know only Electroneum. But it's a simulated mining operation.

If you really want to try then you can get some cheap androids (usually $20-$30) from walmart or on other markets during sells. However you need to make sure if this coin have any future worth investing into otherwise you will be just wasting your time.

I remember some alt that called "MangoCoin" back in 2015-2016 I think? You can mine mangocoin by just walking/running, basically if you have to do a long commute for work it's great to have this app on your phone.
To be honest, it doesn't make you rich by any means, but the concept was good to attract people. Yeah this was more like a gimmick than actual mining. But it's nice to get rewarded to do something you always do every day, like walking. But yeah the coin already dead.

Oh after a quick google search, here the ANN: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=902788.0

Yeah I also think that if there have any way to mine Bitcoin with our android device then It's never gonna be profitable. It will destro your android phone.

Yes, mining simulation is a very cool idea! Coins can be mine even on the calculator!  ;D

We cant prefer mobile phones for crypto mining, even poor setup computer cant be use in mining your just wasting time and money off course paying monthly electricity bills. If you want mining, you need a full advance set up computer to stand in high spec needed by mining technology, estimated 5000$ worth of mining rig. But if the rate of electricity in you country is high, it would be hard for you, think twice before start in crypto mining

Well, I had this thought. However, I'm not sure it's worth investing in buying old phones for this. I think it's just an interesting way of mining. But if someone already has a lot of unnecessary phones, then this is a good way to use them.

Perhaps this is still a more stupid idea, it would be like  creating mining on a smart watch or a refrigerator. In principle, this is feasible, but most importantly - why?

As long as there are almost non coins that can be mined exclusively on smart phones, I'd say it doesn't make sense to buy new phones just for the sake of mining with them. So far there is only this MIB. What would be if, for any reason, the development for that project gets discontinued? You wouldn't have any chance to get your investment back by mining something different on your phones.

no one will use this method of mining. but who knows, maybe after a while, mobile devices will catch up with such powerful computers because the technology and progress do not stand still.

Nope. even on a low or medium spec computer.
Small miners get thrown out easily at the blockchain mining competition.
Those chinese were selling their old mining rigs for more high spec ones.
Even if you do, it is not really profitable. Either mining is for big guys or guys with big cash and pockets.
It is really SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST OUT THERE!

Yes, I agree that buying phones for this will be risky. But if you already have phones, it makes sense. Here is to example, I launched mining on Samsung with chip Exynos7870, he gives ~140-160 KH/s. In one hour it gives ~0.8 MIB. If the phone will work while you sleep, for example 8 hours, you will get 6.4 MIB, that is about $0.12. In this case, the cost of electricity can be considered equal to 0. And if someone has 10 such unnecessary phones, and he will be engaged in mining continuously, then in a week he will receive about ~$27.

It's easier to sell these phones on the secondary market and not kill them on obscure coins!

Are there refrigerators with cpu's now. LOL! What about my old ps3, would that be able to mine with some custom softmod or something? Not sure it would give much of a hashrate though  ;)

There's no way to mine bitcoins using an android phone if I am not mistaken Electroneum can be mine using their app which I think is not also profitable because you will just end up losing your phone because of using it.

There is an existing App which simulates the mining of Electronium (for example) or which is doing real mining for example for MIB coin.
As the mobile should be charged  all the time use only that mobile you will not miss if it goes wrong.

I admit that imitation mining is possible, but real mining on a mobile phone is nonsense. Who needs this power? Farm video cards can not resist Asic, and you are talking about smartphones ...

Yes, but you dont take into account the time spent on it. Time is a more valuable resource, as it is unrecoverable. Is it worth spending time on it?

Mining on phones, televisions and hair dryers is something like a marketing trick whose goal is to draw attention (to products or mining and so on).

Well, I agree that's marketing. Simulation of mining Electroneum this is the kind of airdrop. This is done precisely to attract attention and increase the number of users.

I don't know if you can mine bitcoin or major altcoin on Android, but if I'm not wrong you can mining some altcoin
One of them is Electroneum, you can mine it from your Android phone.
I don't know about the profit and calculation, but if you want to try, you can go with that
You can search on Google the tutorial to mine Etn.

For Android there is a miner based on XMRig: https://github.com/NanoBytesInc/Pickaxe
Supports monero, aeon and others coins.

Hi,

I recently covered mining crypto on Android mobile phones in these videos.

Android Mining Guide - How To Mine Crypto Coins On Mobile Phones
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_2XEM7qzQE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_2XEM7qzQE)

You might also like this one which is a bit simpler to get started.

Android Mining Guide [NO ROOT] - How To Mine uPlexa On Mobile Phones & TV Boxes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCwu0FqcO_M (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCwu0FqcO_M)

There are very few apps that can mine with the android OS. But I must warn you, mining is not profitable via PCs let alone Android phones

electronium is the only choice to mine in your android and when someone was trying to mine bitcoin with phone and believe my that phone will have exploded instantly without any notice. That just another nonsense idea to mine bitcoin using a phone. That's a big joke.

Those apps that tells you can mine with bitcoin are fake, there's no way to mine bitcoin through a mobile app (iOS or android). Don't believe such apps that are existing on app/play stores. You can mine with altcoins but the reward won't be that much unlike mining through GPU. If you want to mine bitcoin, you need powerful machine, ASICs miners.

Majority of newbies learnt bitcoin, ltc, doge and Ethereum can be mined using an android phone but it's a farce. What is obtainable is through cloud mining system through a faucet that is mostly useless. The best bet is to get any good antminer version and begin, of you have cheap and stable electricity

I think the bitcoin mining application that you mean is already available in the PlayStore. but I advise you not to do that on your Smartphone, because this will torment it, or even damage your Smartphone. and your mining results will not be enough to get an equivalent Smartphone.

Minning on android phone won't work there are lot of difficult i faced phone gets hang and most of the time it get switch off so prefer CPU mining

Mining on your Android or the IOS mobile will be very slow and you will also get some fraction of Bitcoin but by doing this you will the sole responsible of you mobile to be damage. The mobile will go very hit at the time of mining application running and this will also hamper to your battery life of duration.

No chance to mine bitcoin with your phone, but you could try an altcoin such as NKN.