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How can I mine bitcoin from my android mobile phone?

Read this as starters: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2415854.0

Bitcoin mining is nowadays done with ASIC miners only.
And you can't turn profit by mining any coin with phone... it's a stupid idea. Sorry.

You would probably need to use your phone to mine another coin (like XMR) and then convert that over to BTC. But keep in mind, you won't mine much of anything from a mobile phone. It doesn't have the power that's really needed to make mining worthwhile. And keep your battery charger close by, cause mining on a cell phone will probably drain the battery extremely fast.

You can't use your android phone for mining anything, you would only destroy your battery for nothing or get scammed and infected with some malware, so stop thinking about this.
Bitcoin needs much more expensive special ASIC machines for mining and you need to spend more more electricity for them.

You cannot. Bitcoin mining is dependent upon a hardware with dedicated processing power and dedicated energy, and mobile phones don't have those features. In fact, you can't run a full bitcoin client in a mobile phone, either, so the idea of mining through a phone doesn't make much sense.

If you are serious about Bitcoin mining, then you should read this "First time/Small miner reference for getting started. (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4636521.0)"

Gone are the days when bitcoin was mined with a Mobile phone, we are even in the days that even with a power system you won't even be able to compete with some other miners who are using Advanced computer system and great energy source to mine, so maybe you could try learning some other thing that is good for your starting level then you could grow from there and maybe be a Bitcoin miner some day

I don't think there ever was a time when bitcoins could be mined with a phone.

Yes, as Odolvlobo already said, Bitcoin was never mined with a mobile phone. Some altcoins might have been, but never bitcoin.
In fact, you can't even run a full bitcoin client with a mobile phone as far as I know.

To be honest I haven't even seen any altcoins that could be mined with a mobile phone either. There has been a bunch of them that claimed to be able to do that and some applications were released but those that I have seen were all scams that sometimes infected the device.

No way you can mine it on Android devices because the other miners in the network are using ASIC machinery for the same purpose and lot of GPU power is consumed at this time so you can't even mine it on some good laptops also so just elude this thought of btc mining on mobile phone.See here are some images of bitcoin mining farms which mine btc blocks to earn reward with coinbase transaction:

https://i.ibb.co/ZYgJrtx/images-61.jpg (https://ibb.co/5nj93tL)   https://i.ibb.co/JkZ4smj/images-60.jpg (https://ibb.co/5cZyRGh)

What do you think is capable of mining btc at faster pace or in technical way which system will compute the hash faster to generate next valid blocks and earn 6.25 bitcoins at this time?

The early days were when mining difficulty was low but now it's too high that there are mining pools setup for the same purpose and combined power is used to mine bitcoin blocks and Android devices are not capable of doing so.

There are certain application which have in built wallet also and they claim it's too simple but most of them are fraud as this will only damage your system using your power and will not give you anything or say after giving out whole time power to your devices and spending funds on their maintainence due to heat generated by them you will get too low so no fun of do such things.But yes i have also heard this specially for Laptop as phones have some issues with it.

Is it even worth the time and hustle?

The most effective way of mining XMR is through using some modern computer CPUs, It never crossed my mind that it would be possible and even profitable to mine XMR  using a phone, otherwise it would be a popular way of mining by now.

Crypto mining is not easy on Android phone. And there is not way to mine crypto by using your Mobil phone. First thing where you here about to mine Bitcoin on mobile phone that's is wrong way to guide you. You have to invest to before mining of Bitcoin.

I think from the beginning when Bitcoin was introduced like the year 2009, Bitcoin or cryptocurrency people of that time were mining Bitcoin with phone then, and that era has been wiped away, cryptocurrency and especially bitcoin is not involve in mining with phone except having a giant mining farm that requires or consumed a lot of electricity to carry the functional operation of bitcoin, i know vividly that many people has render positive suggestions of bitcoin pathways of mining or educational and possible solution of bitcoin mining shortcut.

Think first if these android mobile phones now are capable of mine cryptocurrencies, it seems it needs high RAM before you can do it, or else your mobile phone will be exploded due to the heat that may occur.  Why mobile phone if you're interested in mining?  They aren't mining equipment.  Just choose mining equipment such as mining rigs, this machine has the capability to mine crypto.

I have heard before that there are mobile phones that can able to mine cryptocurrency but I think that it not will work, the result could be malware that could be infected our device and steal your private data.

What you've said is right but the latter part, the investing part is on the machine, the miner itself. You just can't mine bitcoin without having those antminers.

I guess OP was introduced wrongly to mining. There are scam projects that they say they're mining through phone but they're all false hopes and there's no way someone can do that with their phones. I think I've heard of it with electroneum as their mobile mining but it's not really giving the hash power you need to mine and the project is nearly dead. I guess he got that comparison with projects like that.

Like seriously?
Why don't you just sell the phone and buy bitcoin instead of heating up an innocent phone with poor battery and get nothing at the end of the stress. Mining is now a business that require sophisticated and special powerful machine (ASIC) to mine bitcoin, you wouldn't just kill your Android, yiur are also wasting your energy.
Back to OP, you will atleast some resources to get kick start bitcoin mining.

Yes but not making any good sense, if your phone is at its highest capacity to mine bitcoin, it will not be profitable, it will be a total waste of time. We can then say that phones can not be used to mine bitcoin. If you want to mine bitcoin, I will suggest you to check for asics and go for the best ones like S19, S19 Pro and T17.

Invest in what sense? All I know is that you just have to buy mining equipments which are though expensive and you will join a mining pool which is better. Having access to cheap electricity is important.