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Title: Mining with mobile device
Post by: nareshrohra on October 29, 2017, 02:12:46 PM
Is mining with mobile device a profitable venture today? I read a bit about this and learned that Monero maybe worth mining. then there's Electroneum as well. I wanted to know from other's experience.

One might ask why spend on buying phones. Instead get a PC. Thing is I have few old phones that I can't sell, I want to see possibility of getting some cost back before giving/throwing them away


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: Berk on October 29, 2017, 02:15:34 PM
Not in Bitcoin. Maybe some alt coins have difficulty which a mobile device could mine but then you would require a client from them.


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: Zinkin on October 29, 2017, 02:59:08 PM
Is mining with mobile device a profitable venture today? I read a bit about this and learned that Monero maybe worth mining. then there's Electroneum as well. I wanted to know from other's experience.
I would say that mining is not bad since many Crypto Enthusiast are miners themselves and on top of that it is an opportunity to do less work. You just need the necessary equipment for this, it determines how powerful your mining will go far.
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One might ask why spend on buying phones. Instead get a PC. Thing is I have few old phones that I can't sell, I want to see possibility of getting some cost back before giving/throwing them away
I agree mate, a phone is not definitely useless also, it only have the advantage of mobility and instant accessibility but overall a PC is still more powerful.


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: Frank0209 on October 29, 2017, 03:25:21 PM
Don't try to mine any cryptocurrency with your mobile if you don't want to buy a new one :)) With mining people will have to invest a huge amount of money to buy mining hardware but the amount they got everyday is very little so do you think you can earn enough money to buy a new mobile when you mine cryptocurrency with your mobile? I can ensure that you're not :D. Don't waste your time with it :D


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: Fire Rabbit on October 29, 2017, 05:17:28 PM
Friend, its utter waste to mine monero using your mobile phone. Because it will take years for you to mine one monero using that. For mining monero you should use your pc. But you can mine electroneum using your mobile phone. That's what the developers claim about it. Even its mobile wallet has got the mining feature in it. Its blockchain will go live from 1st November. After that you can try mining it with your mobile.


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: Geemy on October 29, 2017, 05:21:25 PM
you can do this in altcoins only like you said ' electrneum ' , but i think it's will be very hard to mine and also very hard to get profit from thin mining , but we will see soon


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: greenpips on October 29, 2017, 05:36:43 PM
I tried this on a modded kindle tablet. I mined approximately 2 cents of bytecoin per day. However this stress on my tablet killed it. So it ended up being a net loss. You can mine on an android operating system, but you will probably lose money.


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: nareshrohra on October 30, 2017, 08:48:52 AM
I tried this on a modded kindle tablet. I mined approximately 2 cents of bytecoin per day. However this stress on my tablet killed it. So it ended up being a net loss. You can mine on an android operating system, but you will probably lose money.

Thanks mate. That's something I didn't thought of. Facing losses due to damage on mobile hard (incase of excessive heating). But, I wouldn't mind that. I guess, in that case I will treat my already abandoned mobile device as a "fallen soldier"


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: Golftech on October 30, 2017, 08:56:19 AM
I tried this on a modded kindle tablet. I mined approximately 2 cents of bytecoin per day. However this stress on my tablet killed it. So it ended up being a net loss. You can mine on an android operating system, but you will probably lose money.

Thanks mate. That's something I didn't thought of. Facing losses due to damage on mobile hard (incase of excessive heating). But, I wouldn't mind that. I guess, in that case I will treat my already abandoned mobile device as a "fallen soldier"
still not wise to mine coins from your mobile device as it will just break it instead better to sell your device then use the money to buy btc
that is much wiser thing to do if you are willing to let the device go from that you can start trading and earn from that venture.


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: Usui-Kun on October 30, 2017, 09:00:28 AM
The computations for mining bitcoins might be too complicated for a mobile device's processor. But I don't claim perfect knowledge. Maybe they are referring to altcoin mining, which is less complex.


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: Jating on October 30, 2017, 09:04:02 AM
Is mining with mobile device a profitable venture today? I read a bit about this and learned that Monero maybe worth mining. then there's Electroneum as well. I wanted to know from other's experience.

One might ask why spend on buying phones. Instead get a PC. Thing is I have few old phones that I can't sell, I want to see possibility of getting some cost back before giving/throwing them away

I think Samsung has already started mining with some of their old mobile phones, sort of doing re-cycling. But I don't know what much hash power it can produced though or it is profitable or not. They are just doing some experience to recycle old phones or course to become environment friendly. Monero has been breaking grounds with its browsing mining which turns out to be profitable. But mining with mobile phone, I haven't seen any reports yet.

EDIT: Here's the link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2331426.0


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: Hexah on October 30, 2017, 09:05:55 AM
I don't think that it would be beneficial to even mine a Monero using a mobile device because that might even end really up to a year to mine one. If you can have a PC to mine for that then that would be good because it's worth than you just mine it on mobile because if that happens maybe your mobile would end up worse or being damaged. Just keep in mind also that if you are into mining plan ahead to pay electric bills that much.


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: thehero on October 30, 2017, 09:06:34 AM
if you want better use pc do not use mobile device, for mingng nice use pc


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: yoseph on October 30, 2017, 09:06:56 AM
Is mining with mobile device a profitable venture today? I read a bit about this and learned that Monero maybe worth mining. then there's Electroneum as well. I wanted to know from other's experience.

One might ask why spend on buying phones. Instead get a PC. Thing is I have few old phones that I can't sell, I want to see possibility of getting some cost back before giving/throwing them away
I suggest you try mining other cryptocurrencies because people are using the latest mining devices with the hash rate of 11.5TH/Saturday and even they are finding to make a good profit out of it.


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: Maveth13 on October 30, 2017, 09:15:29 AM
Mobile devices are just not meant for cryptocurrency mining. It would take years and years for you to even call what you mined a profit, assuming that your phone won't break, though it sure will within days. No one knows if mining electroneum will be profitable yet even though the developers claim it as it is not live yet, maybe you want to try.


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: WOW4U on October 30, 2017, 09:18:27 AM
Mobile phones are not made for mining coins. The phone would explode if you put a lot of pressure. In the future i think you can mine coins, but now they are not that good in mining.

After a few years phones will be more stronger, but it is a risk though, because mining will overheat your phone.


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: Almat on October 30, 2017, 09:24:40 AM
Why wouldn't you be able to sell them? Mobile devices aren't made for mining, so it wouldn't even be worth it to try. I suggest you just donate them to charity, or look up some uses of old phones on the internet.


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: quochuan29 on October 30, 2017, 09:27:21 AM
you can do this in altcoins only like you said ' electrneum ' , but i think it's will be very hard to mine and also very hard to get profit from thin mining , but we will see soon

electrneum  was a success ICO but i think we can't except much profict from mining


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: squatter on October 30, 2017, 09:32:39 AM
Is mining with mobile device a profitable venture today? I read a bit about this and learned that Monero maybe worth mining. then there's Electroneum as well. I wanted to know from other's experience.

One might ask why spend on buying phones. Instead get a PC. Thing is I have few old phones that I can't sell, I want to see possibility of getting some cost back before giving/throwing them away

It's unlikely to net much, but you might get something. I would never do it with any device that I planned to use in the future for something else; they need to be throwaways. They are likely to get fried.

I definitely wouldn't bother mining Bitcoin... you'll get literally nothing. Monero is the best option I can think of, and it's easy to set up with Coinhive. I don't know much about Electroneum. I've heard it's a scam.

I think it's much better to buy into cryptocurrencies with whatever amount of money you can spare, then trade amongst different coins. Mining isn't worth the effort without dedicated hardware.


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: Yanisumin on October 30, 2017, 09:39:41 AM
Is mining with mobile device a profitable venture today? I read a bit about this and learned that Monero maybe worth mining. then there's Electroneum as well. I wanted to know from other's experience.

One might ask why spend on buying phones. Instead get a PC. Thing is I have few old phones that I can't sell, I want to see possibility of getting some cost back before giving/throwing them away

I'm not particularly familiar in mining using your own mobile device, i bet youre talking about some mining sites that tells you that if you log in and stay on the site the device will let you mine because they are using your domain but I think its not real mining. You're going to need some knowledge in computer hardware and computer software in order to mine some crypto (processors, cooling system, video card and other other computer components that can give you some hash power, there are some platforms that can offer games and at the same time while playing, you can earn and mine some crypto (like the hashrush platform), and like they are saying mining BTC is quite hard nowadays so one must have to do some proper research and study in order to have a return of investment when someone is going to enter a crypto mining.


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: Harlot on October 30, 2017, 09:41:06 AM
I don't think that it is wise to do so. Buying a 500$ smart phone just for mining is not a good choice compared to buying a 400-500$ RX580 or GTX 1070, with this graphics card you will have more earning compared to what your smart phone can mine as its processing is not as strong and powerfule compared to a dedicated graphics card. If you really want to get serious with mining you need to invest in hardware.


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: Welsh on October 30, 2017, 09:44:36 AM
Mobile devices are just not meant for cryptocurrency mining. It would take years and years for you to even call what you mined a profit, assuming that your phone won't break, though it sure will within days. No one knows if mining electroneum will be profitable yet even though the developers claim it as it is not live yet, maybe you want to try.

You probably would never turn a profit. The phone requires charging which through mining the battery would be going down very quick because the phone would be operating at it's full capacity or near enough to it. Phones aren't meant for mining, and you aren't going to make a profit. If you want to mine you need to seriously invest in proper mining equipment.


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: TheGodson on October 30, 2017, 09:50:32 AM
I don't want to be the barer of bad news, but mining is pretty much a waste of time. Unless you have like a huge plant that you own or a rig in your basement you're just wasting your time. Sorry, but there are easier ways to earn cryptocurrencies then draining your electric bill.

Also downloading client stuff puts you at more risk to having your systems compromised. Hackers could gain access to your devices and steal your money.

tl;dr: Don't mine.


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: acpr23 on October 30, 2017, 09:54:11 AM
Is mining with mobile device a profitable venture today? I read a bit about this and learned that Monero maybe worth mining. then there's Electroneum as well. I wanted to know from other's experience.

One might ask why spend on buying phones. Instead get a PC. Thing is I have few old phones that I can't sell, I want to see possibility of getting some cost back before giving/throwing them away

Why not try posmining? No gpu/hardware needed. Just employ postoken mint function and youll stake your Pos with 100% of interest. Here's the thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2110712.0


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: Lipe490 on October 30, 2017, 09:56:29 AM
Actually you can mine some altcoins with mobile phone, but it's not worth it. Try mining bytecoin, there's a guide showing how to do it, it's one of few coins that you can actually get some little rewards mining on mobile phone because of its hardware limitation, but it's a funny and good way to introduce you or anyone in mining thing.


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: manhwa on October 30, 2017, 09:59:42 AM
definitely mining on smartphone just wasting your time and battery only for a little amount per month


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: btcprospecter on October 30, 2017, 10:19:06 AM
It is probably not worth the effort of mining on a smartphone. I set up an xmr miner for cpu on an old phenom 2 and it just wasn't worth the time expecially since I was using nanopool and it doesn't pay out until you mine 1xmr.


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: sangtuosimino on October 30, 2017, 10:35:28 AM
Combination of mining and mobile phone. I don't think it works. Now the mining is large mines in operation. Individuals can't dig bitcoin at all
The coin may turn into a POS system maybe later, so you don't have to dig.


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: Halcyon Days on October 30, 2017, 10:44:32 AM
Mining with mobile phones is quite difficult, as the hash rate is very low. Furthermore, we all now, that the battery of modern phones only last a day, by the mining process I am pretty sure, that the battery will be empty after a couple of hours or even before.

What might be interesting is mining through proof of stake. However, I am not sure, if there are many mobile wallets who support this features.

Keep in mind that you need a permanent internet connection for any kind of mining.


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: pat4cryptoreal on October 30, 2017, 10:45:18 AM
Mining with phone will be a very great news. The portability and accessibility of phone will bring a greater experience to mining. So I do not think it is a bad idea.


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: z38630610 on October 31, 2017, 08:07:47 PM
Is mining with mobile device a profitable venture today? I read a bit about this and learned that Monero maybe worth mining. then there's Electroneum as well. I wanted to know from other's experience.

One might ask why spend on buying phones. Instead get a PC. Thing is I have few old phones that I can't sell, I want to see possibility of getting some cost back before giving/throwing them away

I guess it is very hard to mine bitcoin with mobile phone. It is also hard to mine with common laptop or PC. One of my friend tried to mine with his laptop and then he had to buy another one because his device got out of order. Another friend is mining professionally and he has very powerful devices which are only made for mining.


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: azguard on November 03, 2017, 07:43:09 AM
This is only good fiction. There was one coin that was mined with phones back in 2015 if my memory is correct it was program that calculate and hash power was you, Basically when you walk you mine and when you run you mine, only this coin was worth few satoshi but it was good concept for that time.

Bottom line is no way to mine some coin with phones.


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: pawanjain on November 03, 2017, 07:53:15 AM
Electroneum has not yet opened the mobile phone mining feature yet and so it won't be possible to say whether it is profitable or not.
Although they did mention in their article that a high end smartphone will be able to mine 71 ETN coin per month at the price of $0.29 per coin which would give $21 per month. So it is not that profitable since we will have to keep the phone mining always ON which makes it prone to be dead. A single smartphone can't handle such a load and that is why it is recommended to make a mining rig and then mine the coins.


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: nhoj25 on November 03, 2017, 07:55:26 AM
you can do this in altcoins only like you said ' electrneum ' , but i think it's will be very hard to mine and also very hard to get profit from thin mining , but we will see soon
I think mining with mobile devices wont be a success/profitable since it depends on your internet speed and device performance which is much lower than computers/supercomputers can. It will just stress out your phone until it dies. Hence, a negative profit.


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: Fappanu on November 03, 2017, 07:57:12 AM
Is mining with mobile device a profitable venture today? I read a bit about this and learned that Monero maybe worth mining. then there's Electroneum as well. I wanted to know from other's experience.

One might ask why spend on buying phones. Instead get a PC. Thing is I have few old phones that I can't sell, I want to see possibility of getting some cost back before giving/throwing them away

I really think that mining bitcoin through phone is not that profitable. Mining using computer will take years before you can gain income because you will need to update your system, pay electric bills, pay for your computer maintenance. What more if you will mine with your computer.


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: CuriousGeorge on November 03, 2017, 08:00:30 AM
Is mining with mobile device a profitable venture today? I read a bit about this and learned that Monero maybe worth mining. then there's Electroneum as well. I wanted to know from other's experience.

One might ask why spend on buying phones. Instead get a PC. Thing is I have few old phones that I can't sell, I want to see possibility of getting some cost back before giving/throwing them away

I really think that mining bitcoin through phone is not that profitable. Mining using computer will take years before you can gain income because you will need to update your system, pay electric bills, pay for your computer maintenance. What more if you will mine with your computer.
Practically, bitcoin mining will be profitable only if you have low cost electricity or even renewable source of electricity. A damn tons of graphic card with the highest performance yet the most efficient energy consumption. and last thing, the maintenance to keep your hardware fine and cool, and preferably to mine in the location that have low temperature like countries in north europe and north america.
Sad to be say, individually mining a bitcoin with lowe end rigs will only wasting atime


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: Pursuer on November 03, 2017, 08:04:41 AM
you can't mine with your mobile device! they just made a device (or a rig) with a lot of old versions of their mobile devices to show it is still a good and powerful enough CPU inside them to even mine bitcoin. with the current total network hashrate you can't even have enough to find anything decent. not to mention that cell phones run on batteries that are not designed to work extensively night and day.


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: yndye on November 03, 2017, 08:05:15 AM
Is mining with mobile device a profitable venture today? I read a bit about this and learned that Monero maybe worth mining. then there's Electroneum as well. I wanted to know from other's experience.

One might ask why spend on buying phones. Instead get a PC. Thing is I have few old phones that I can't sell, I want to see possibility of getting some cost back before giving/throwing them away

Maybe there is a way for this to be profitable but as I read some post about mining Monero, I think it would be better if youo just use your PC in mining rather than your phone. I have read somewhere that they tried to mine an altcoin but then the phone get too hot that the owners are afraid it might blow up and some apps are very slow that's why they just stop mining through it. As for bitcoin, I think it is highly unlikely to mine it with mobile phone because even with PC it is just hard to mine, you need to have the specific tools for mining.


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: sofi@ on November 03, 2017, 08:33:11 AM
I don't think mobile device a good stuff for mining I tried one and only earn few satoshi for an hour it's really small it will still depend on your place but for those beginners maybe this would help otherwise I would still suggest pc to be use for mining, with the help of good device and tools maybe you can earn good enough.


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: Nawaytes on November 03, 2017, 08:56:19 AM
Is mining with mobile device a profitable venture today? I read a bit about this and learned that Monero maybe worth mining. then there's Electroneum as well. I wanted to know from other's experience.

One might ask why spend on buying phones. Instead get a PC. Thing is I have few old phones that I can't sell, I want to see possibility of getting some cost back before giving/throwing them away
If you don't spend money to buy a phone, it's not bad if you try it.
But I think it will be useless, because you will get..mmm..just a little from there, even to pay your internet bill will not be enough.
But you have to try and let us know how it works ;)


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: pxo.011 on November 03, 2017, 09:02:20 AM
is this applicable or possible in BTCBTCBTCBTC


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: Jake052478 on November 03, 2017, 09:09:02 AM
I am not familiar with mobile devices to be used in mining, but one question lingers on.  does it really have the computing ability like the graphics cards chips??? to those who experienced, how much they are mining in a day.  can it handle the computing requirement to mine digital currency?  hmmm.... interesting but no thanks...


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: sangkler11 on November 03, 2017, 09:14:52 AM
for Better mining bitcoin i sugest to use computer, the result is also better.I think the mobile phone just for communication.


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: Bittoshi on November 03, 2017, 09:17:42 AM
You can use the Electroneum app to mine Electroneum and then sell it and buy BTC instead. The app does not use much power on the phone. Its more a kind of POS (prove of stake) than POW (prove or work).


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: whoisyourking on November 03, 2017, 09:43:19 AM
Is mining with mobile device a profitable venture today? I read a bit about this and learned that Monero maybe worth mining. then there's Electroneum as well. I wanted to know from other's experience.

One might ask why spend on buying phones. Instead get a PC. Thing is I have few old phones that I can't sell, I want to see possibility of getting some cost back before giving/throwing them away

This is maybe possible with some alt coins but in bitcoin or the some of the top currency it is not profitable mobile phone do not have enough hashing power to mine crypto why choose phones if you can buy computer but if you think again phone is more power saver than computer but dont have enough mining power than computer. good luck just invest if you think you can make profit.


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: Zastria on November 03, 2017, 10:02:53 AM
Do not use your phone for me, I've tried to mine on freebitco.in site and do not produce anything, if anyone ever make it from mining via phone, the result is not too much.


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: Suaves on November 03, 2017, 10:04:38 AM
Samsung has made a Bitcoin Mining Rig Out of 40 Old Galaxy S5s  :o

Their headlining project at Samsung’s recent developer conference was a 40-stack of Samsung Galaxy S5s turned into a Bitcoin mining rig. Not only were the phones able to mine Bitcoins, they were able to do it more efficiently than a desktop computer. In fact, eight Galaxy S5s can mine more efficiently than a computer with an Intel Core i7 2600.

Of course this is an experiment, but it serves to see the potential that can have relatively obsolete devices.


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: Mascrypto on November 03, 2017, 10:12:49 AM
Mining BTC in mobile device? No way, forget about this.


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: Chanock on November 03, 2017, 01:00:43 PM
Using mobile phone in mining can encounter difficulties because mining is need a large CPU usage that mobile phone cannot supply. If you are using monero in mining through mobile phone its take to long time before you gain your expected bitcoin value. Mining is good and if you want to engage in mining it is better to use computer or laptop because it is ideal use for mining due to the large CPU capacity.


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: DrGuns4Hands on November 03, 2017, 01:06:56 PM
mining with mobile device an altcoin is not profitable you will just end up on losing your phone because phone has a li-on battery unlike computers they have a power supply and also they can handle the pressure of being used for a long term. i never had a mining rig since the electricity cost here in our country is really expensive so im just end up on getting a net loss.


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: dejectedstream on November 03, 2017, 01:08:31 PM
Is mining with mobile device a profitable venture today? I read a bit about this and learned that Monero maybe worth mining. then there's Electroneum as well. I wanted to know from other's experience.

One might ask why spend on buying phones. Instead get a PC. Thing is I have few old phones that I can't sell, I want to see possibility of getting some cost back before giving/throwing them away
Not profitable,   even if you think you're making a profit,  the battery will quickly deteriorate.


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: Red-Apple on November 03, 2017, 01:16:17 PM
every device is built to serve an specific purpose. what you are asking is like asking about how to cook a meal with your refrigerator! you can do that with its internal system if you break your fridge but an oven is meant to do what you are trying to do!

a cell phone is not designed to do hard calculations for long period of times. your battery is not meant for it either.
you can build a rig from mobile devices like what Samsung did with their galaxy phones but it is not going to be efficient


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: reisuke24 on November 03, 2017, 01:31:08 PM
with pc is good one than with mobile device.
i dont know how much we can earn if mining with mobile, but it will make our battery broken slowly.
but i think many people will take risk to mining with mobile.
but i will use pc to do that


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: KuromaYoichi on November 03, 2017, 01:38:25 PM
Is mining with mobile device a profitable venture today? I read a bit about this and learned that Monero maybe worth mining. then there's Electroneum as well. I wanted to know from other's experience.

One might ask why spend on buying phones. Instead get a PC. Thing is I have few old phones that I can't sell, I want to see possibility of getting some cost back before giving/throwing them away
No, it's not profitable at all, the hash rate you can get with phone can't be compared to mining with gpu or even cpu. It's hard to get profit with cpu so don't expect to make money mining with phone because it's not made for mining. I think you'll break your phone first before you make some significant amount from it.


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: esgdrhlg on November 03, 2017, 01:41:45 PM
The machines used by professional miners are not comparable to those of our ordinary people.Them more efficient, this is a whimsical topic, I think the news is more likely is the people's attention turned to the currency mining, because we all know that mobile phone ARM CPU capacity than completely but the computer.


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: OrcaTech on November 03, 2017, 01:44:13 PM
Are you serious?! It will take forever to mine at least 1 BTC


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: kier010 on November 03, 2017, 01:57:36 PM
Is mining with mobile device a profitable venture today? I read a bit about this and learned that Monero maybe worth mining. then there's Electroneum as well. I wanted to know from other's experience.

One might ask why spend on buying phones. Instead get a PC. Thing is I have few old phones that I can't sell, I want to see possibility of getting some cost back before giving/throwing them away
using mobile device is not profitable. if you want your phone to last longer then do not mine in it.


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: liutenko on November 03, 2017, 02:12:28 PM
It's deffinitely bad idea mate... Don't do that please ;D


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: bitvalak on November 03, 2017, 02:45:47 PM
Is mining with mobile device a profitable venture today? I read a bit about this and learned that Monero maybe worth mining. then there's Electroneum as well. I wanted to know from other's experience.

One might ask why spend on buying phones. Instead get a PC. Thing is I have few old phones that I can't sell, I want to see possibility of getting some cost back before giving/throwing them away
if just to mine I think it can, but if to expect stable profit I think it will never be achieved. Because the smartphone is very limited to use mined altcoin.


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: Mahanton on November 03, 2017, 02:48:04 PM
Is mining with mobile device a profitable venture today? I read a bit about this and learned that Monero maybe worth mining. then there's Electroneum as well. I wanted to know from other's experience.

One might ask why spend on buying phones. Instead get a PC. Thing is I have few old phones that I can't sell, I want to see possibility of getting some cost back before giving/throwing them away
Mining altcoins in mobile phone? its not possible as of today because it will surely make your mobile phone be on fire since they are not  designed for the purpose of mining and there is an prescribed mining equipment on that one and we shouldnt really bother at all on mining on mobile phones because its not profitable and you are really just wasting up your time.Better to save up money to buy graphics card and better to mine altcoins.


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: jatin729 on November 03, 2017, 02:51:50 PM
No never because it can't be profitable at all.
It is totally depend upon the hardware of the particular device. mobile devices are made up for only simple use for mining we need Hardware that is made specifically for mining.


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: dejectedstream on November 03, 2017, 02:54:16 PM
No never because it can't be profitable at all.
It is totally depend upon the hardware of the particular device. mobile devices are made up for only simple use for mining we need Hardware that is made specifically for mining.
I completely agree,  the only profitable miners are like computers.


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: AicecreaME on November 03, 2017, 02:56:43 PM
No never because it can't be profitable at all.
It is totally depend upon the hardware of the particular device. mobile devices are made up for only simple use for mining we need Hardware that is made specifically for mining.
Hell yeah, I mean who would mine in a mobile device that would never result to any amount of bitcoin due to it's low mining power. It hard enough already to earn bitcoin on a PC without the hardware required for it so how come a Mobile device can even do things like that.  It doesn't even support connecting hardware on it and there's no mining app that will give a good income for any mobile device.


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: layoutph on November 03, 2017, 03:29:07 PM
In order to mine using your phone you need a phone with Octocore or greater chipset. But the thing is it will ruin your phone. Your phone might overheat as it uses a lot of memory and processor. It might end up destroying your own phone. And the price? I guess you will earn only a cent for a 3 days non stop mining. Its a waste of time.

Is mining with mobile device a profitable venture today? I read a bit about this and learned that Monero maybe worth mining. then there's Electroneum as well. I wanted to know from other's experience.

One might ask why spend on buying phones. Instead get a PC. Thing is I have few old phones that I can't sell, I want to see possibility of getting some cost back before giving/throwing them away


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: blueteam09 on November 03, 2017, 03:40:46 PM
I think this is a good idea at first, as mobile chips are already as powerful as computer makers, but there is a problem if you run it. With mobile devices, do you feel profitable after I calculated that I will lose money when investing in mobile devices because the device does not suffer from the heat of the CPU when the test. waterfall coin


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: Theb on November 03, 2017, 03:52:41 PM
It won't be profitable and efficient as what you think, even if you have sets of old phones at your disposal the power it has compared to a dedicated graphics card is very different. Also basing it on my experience I have tried to mine altcoins with 2 of my smart phones whom of which both didn't earn enough and it really maximizes your phones power as you will feel your phone rise up in terms of temperature so high that you wouldn't try it again as it will damage your phone. You will just waste your electricity charging your phones trying to mine altcoins with it.


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: felipe04 on November 03, 2017, 03:59:53 PM
Is mining with mobile device a profitable venture today? I read a bit about this and learned that Monero maybe worth mining. then there's Electroneum as well. I wanted to know from other's experience.

One might ask why spend on buying phones. Instead get a PC. Thing is I have few old phones that I can't sell, I want to see possibility of getting some cost back before giving/throwing them away
yes we can earn here in bitcoin i experience a lot of mining like genesis mining and hashflare or in telegram bot there's a lot of legit and also scam site here in bitcoin world the best way to avoid scam or phsing site is to do not invest in their site and the free in their site are your investing tool because they can scam you if you do invest so better is the free first then invest if they have that


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: grumpylittlepoodle on November 03, 2017, 04:01:21 PM
Is mining with mobile device a profitable venture today? I read a bit about this and learned that Monero maybe worth mining. then there's Electroneum as well. I wanted to know from other's experience.

One might ask why spend on buying phones. Instead get a PC. Thing is I have few old phones that I can't sell, I want to see possibility of getting some cost back before giving/throwing them away

I think not, if upgraded computers are having a hard time mining the bitcoins then cellphone computers would not have a chance to mine them.


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: Core.BUSTER on November 03, 2017, 04:04:58 PM
Is mining with mobile device a profitable venture today? I read a bit about this and learned that Monero maybe worth mining. then there's Electroneum as well. I wanted to know from other's experience.

One might ask why spend on buying phones. Instead get a PC. Thing is I have few old phones that I can't sell, I want to see possibility of getting some cost back before giving/throwing them away
Actually, you can't do mining with you mobile devices or phone and I think mobile is not compatible on bitcoin mining. In addition to that, mobile phone or devices is useless things for mining and they can handle it well because it needs more energy and your mobile devices will get heat when you try to use it in mining and it may cause of explosion.


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: CryptoUser25 on November 03, 2017, 04:18:59 PM
You will destroy a lot of phones by mining with phones. You will have to wait for better phones with coolers. I think that phones will have a mini cooler in the future to keep the heat away.

If this will happen i think that everyone will try to mine it.


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: tuniscu on November 03, 2017, 04:21:31 PM
Is mining with mobile device a profitable venture today? I read a bit about this and learned that Monero maybe worth mining. then there's Electroneum as well. I wanted to know from other's experience.

One might ask why spend on buying phones. Instead get a PC. Thing is I have few old phones that I can't sell, I want to see possibility of getting some cost back before giving/throwing them away
I have searched a lot of things online to help my phone work and make money. But almost paid applications will catch us shopping, doing tasks, watching videos. download application. But there is no mining with mobile device


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: christian07 on November 03, 2017, 04:22:53 PM
Its not big but we can have profit coming from that but we need to study first their site for the safety of our money because some mining are going to scam after a few weeks or a month only so invest if you see the proof first then try it ,its risky but we can have profit try also in coinpot there's a mining in doge,litoshi and btc


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: w33man on November 03, 2017, 04:23:12 PM
Is mining with mobile device a profitable venture today? I read a bit about this and learned that Monero maybe worth mining. then there's Electroneum as well. I wanted to know from other's experience.

One might ask why spend on buying phones. Instead get a PC. Thing is I have few old phones that I can't sell, I want to see possibility of getting some cost back before giving/throwing them away

It’s actually legit. I am also doing mining on my own mobile device. It’s more convenient I think and I no longer need to buy or invest in expensive devices such as processors and cpus so I guess it’s good.


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: romecheo on November 03, 2017, 04:26:58 PM
That was too risky to do, mobile are not design for mining, no cooling system, and less hash power due to limitation on processor.

Let's say you can mine AltCoin, with very low difficulties setting, however for Bitcoin, it was mission impossible for now.

Perhaps we have to wait another 2 years for the innovation of Mobile phone for mining purposes.



Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: nareshrohra on November 03, 2017, 04:28:04 PM
Is mining with mobile device a profitable venture today? I read a bit about this and learned that Monero maybe worth mining. then there's Electroneum as well. I wanted to know from other's experience.

One might ask why spend on buying phones. Instead get a PC. Thing is I have few old phones that I can't sell, I want to see possibility of getting some cost back before giving/throwing them away

I think Samsung has already started mining with some of their old mobile phones, sort of doing re-cycling. But I don't know what much hash power it can produced though or it is profitable or not. They are just doing some experience to recycle old phones or course to become environment friendly. Monero has been breaking grounds with its browsing mining which turns out to be profitable. But mining with mobile phone, I haven't seen any reports yet.

EDIT: Here's the link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2331426.0

That's really good. And to me it seems positive if they allow to update a lighter version of software that is optimised for mining, it may turn out good for mining some altcoins.


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: Dudeperfect on November 03, 2017, 04:31:29 PM
I don't see that mobile device is a good way for mining because Bitcoin mining is a serious business now and we should leave it for those who treat it in such way. Mining on a single Android device would take nearly 1+ year to generate the revenue of $10 to $100 so I would not recommend it.

However, there is a good news for you. There are some ongoing projects which might help you earn handsome profits by selling the SMS capacity of your device and network operator. However, everything is now in the beta phase and might take some more time to roll out.


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: Alok Yadav on November 03, 2017, 07:11:59 PM
Friend, its utter waste to mine monero using your mobile phone. Because it will take years for you to mine one monero using that. For mining monero you should use your pc. But you can mine electroneum using your mobile phone. That's what the developers claim about it. Even its mobile wallet has got the mining feature in it. Its blockchain will go live from 1st November. After that you can try mining it with your mobile.

To mine 1 ethereum coin using the gpu of a 500$ nvidia GTX1080 graphics card it takes 2 months. The gtx1080 can crunch 2 roughly 25.000.000 hashes per second.

Sure, there are ethereum miners for android (look for minergate on google play).

Ethereum has been designed to make it impossible (at least… none succeded until now) to be mined using specialized hardware chips designed explicitly for the mining task, so the graphics card GPU miner, for ethereum is still the most powerful miner you can get.

For bitcoin this is not true: GPUs are outperformed (the same way a gpu outperforms a phone) by dedicated ASIC miners which are a thousand times faster than GPUs.

Now: both coins have in common that they automatically get more hard to be mined to compensate the introduction of more powerful hardware: there is a predetermined number of coins to be generated globally every day: you just get a slice of this pie and its size is proportional to the amount of computing power you can offer compared to the total amount provided by the rest of the world.

Miners are in a continuos competition one against the other in getting the most powerful hardware they can and the cheapest electricity bill.

Today it is practically impossible to mine bitcoins without using ASIC miners: it takes months to get one bitcoin using an ASIC miner, it takes decades using a GPU and well… a phone is as useful as a stone for mining bitcoin.

Moreover: keeping an ASIC miner running, today has electricity costs high enough to make it more convenient to simply buy bitcoins at the regular markst price, unless you live in a place where electricity costs are really low (read: China)… or unless you get your miner powered by solar panels. But you need hundreds of asic miners to get some serious money, today, and they aren't cheap.


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: chickenfried12 on November 03, 2017, 07:15:06 PM
we  will see some old phones  samsung s5 it will be make a desing and system mine to some coins  but i dont know which coins maybe altcoins but it will be use old phones with a system :) everybody want to try


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: rainbow169 on November 03, 2017, 07:48:39 PM
Mining for any coins like btc that are heavily rely on CPU or GPU power is not a practical model on mobile, however there could be other intelligent way of mining, like play a game, watch an ad, a bit like, proof of attention or time.


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: Geemy on November 03, 2017, 08:16:22 PM
if you will mine bitcoin , it's totally impossible , but alt coins like ( electrunem ) yes you can , but save your phone and buy ASIC or GPU it's better


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: ubay on November 03, 2017, 08:23:49 PM
Is mining with mobile device a profitable venture today? I read a bit about this and learned that Monero maybe worth mining. then there's Electroneum as well. I wanted to know from other's experience.

One might ask why spend on buying phones. Instead get a PC. Thing is I have few old phones that I can't sell, I want to see possibility of getting some cost back before giving/throwing them away

It will make your phone damaged, try buying a VGA Card to start mining.


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: Zinkin on November 04, 2017, 04:34:48 PM
Is mining with mobile device a profitable venture today? I read a bit about this and learned that Monero maybe worth mining. then there's Electroneum as well. I wanted to know from other's experience.

One might ask why spend on buying phones. Instead get a PC. Thing is I have few old phones that I can't sell, I want to see possibility of getting some cost back before giving/throwing them away

It will make your phone damaged, try buying a VGA Card to start mining.
VGA Card? Now I'm confused, we all know that a Phone has a built-in Hardware components, including the CPU, Memory, the camera, right? So why the heck are you recommending this person to buy a freaking VGA Card?

That's hilarious, I don't want to be rude man but this is a serious matter.


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: karmamiu on November 04, 2017, 04:43:52 PM
Is mining with mobile device a profitable venture today? I read a bit about this and learned that Monero maybe worth mining. then there's Electroneum as well. I wanted to know from other's experience.

One might ask why spend on buying phones. Instead get a PC. Thing is I have few old phones that I can't sell, I want to see possibility of getting some cost back before giving/throwing them away

It will make your phone damaged, try buying a VGA Card to start mining.
VGA Card? Now I'm confused, we all know that a Phone has a built-in Hardware components, including the CPU, Memory, the camera, right? So why the heck are you recommending this person to buy a freaking VGA Card?

That's hilarious, I don't want to be rude man but this is a serious matter.
             You're actually right! Since PC is more recommendable rather than mobile phone, aside from that there's a lot of specs disadvantage from mobile phone compared to PC. It will also be rough for your mobile phone to be used in mining altcoins because it is too way impossible to mine bitcoin by those specs.


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: mrayazgul on November 25, 2017, 05:48:19 PM
Is mining with mobile device a profitable venture today? I read a bit about this and learned that Monero maybe worth mining. then there's Electroneum as well. I wanted to know from other's experience.

One might ask why spend on buying phones. Instead get a PC. Thing is I have few old phones that I can't sell, I want to see possibility of getting some cost back before giving/throwing them away

Mining isn't bad but its all depends. Its not only bitcoin we can mine other alt-coin i myself mining XMR ( Monero ). You can earn some profit with the help of mobile device. But it can be effected on your mobile battery.  I think we should use the PC with high specs if we want to get some profit after all from the mining.


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: Roboabhishek on November 25, 2017, 06:00:30 PM
Is mining with mobile device a profitable venture today? I read a bit about this and learned that Monero maybe worth mining. then there's Electroneum as well. I wanted to know from other's experience.

One might ask why spend on buying phones. Instead get a PC. Thing is I have few old phones that I can't sell, I want to see possibility of getting some cost back before giving/throwing them away

No i will not suggest anyone to mine bitcoins with mobile devices unless you want to destroy the device.
there's not a proper colling in mobile devices and it might get into bad position,


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: GreenBits on November 25, 2017, 11:08:43 PM
Is mining with mobile device a profitable venture today? I read a bit about this and learned that Monero maybe worth mining. then there's Electroneum as well. I wanted to know from other's experience.

One might ask why spend on buying phones. Instead get a PC. Thing is I have few old phones that I can't sell, I want to see possibility of getting some cost back before giving/throwing them away

at this total network size, anything less than a dedicated mining device is ultimately a waste of time :(  you just wont be able to compete with a device designed to hash; your device is essentially emulating the same process. dont do this. besides being inefficient, using your device in this manner will degrade it prematurely. they arent designed for the load the emulation process puts on a non dedicated device.



Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: Hamstead on November 25, 2017, 11:27:27 PM
Definitely, it is more advisable to use pc than using mobile phones for easy and safe mining. And you should expect for high electric bills if you start into mining investment because possible that your pc will run for a whole day mining operation that certainly add cost to your expenses. But it still be worthy because the more you have a mining pc installed the more hash power you've got and a big chances that you can mined more coins compared to used only one pc.


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: azguard on November 26, 2017, 07:02:33 PM
Think that better question here is why to mine something with mobile device.
If someone want to mine better invest in some rig and then start mining with mobile devices (phones and tablets) is waste of time better spend that time on faucets then you will more with this method rather then with mining on your phone.


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: bitbunnny on November 26, 2017, 07:09:21 PM
Why on earth would you use your mobile phone for mining? That makes no sense and it's not worth waisting time and your mobile phone. If you realy want to do serious mining get some proper equipement. Although if I were in your place I wouldn't mining at all. These days if you are not having a farm it's just not profitable enough.


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: Zentor on November 26, 2017, 07:33:40 PM
Mining with mobile device is like drinking water with the spoon. You`d better buy some good ASIC/gpu and don`t waste your time


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: ukboss on November 26, 2017, 07:47:43 PM
All Mobile is not support mining but if you use high quality mobile device then you can use it for mining . Mining is a three system but mobile and pc use only cpu mining so just open one tab and start mining with your device.


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: ponicita on November 26, 2017, 11:50:47 PM
I tried to mine with my cellphone, just for fun, I wanted to see its hash rate, it wasnt that bad
But after a few minutes it started to get really hot... And just to get a few satoshis, I wouldnt recommend it


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: littlewizard on November 27, 2017, 12:05:07 AM
It is not worth it to mine with mobile phone or tablet. The performance is much lower than high end desktop graphics cards, perhaps hundreds of times lower, not to mention the Bitcoin ASIC miners. You may not get any share with your mobile phone. Now the only way to profit in bitcoin mining is Bitcoin ASIC miner.


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: darefreads on November 27, 2017, 12:16:40 AM
It's hard to mine using mobile phone rven it is easiy to handle with only one hand, but it can't handle mining more bitcoin in a day. And it is harmful from virus it can easily adopt it, and I really suggest computers.


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: sonny123 on November 27, 2017, 12:20:12 AM
i've tried to mine monero on my cp but i stopped only a few minutes in, my cp was getting hot rapidly so i turned it off right away, good thing my cp didnt explode or the battery


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: Vastraint on November 27, 2017, 12:31:55 AM
I tried to mine with my cellphone, just for fun, I wanted to see its hash rate, it wasnt that bad
But after a few minutes it started to get really hot... And just to get a few satoshis, I wouldnt recommend it

That is why technology built a hardware which can be used in mining. Because they knew mobile devices may end up breaking itself if it resist the pressure that mining can give to that certain phone. So we should don't recommend mining using our mobile phones because we knew what will happened. Breaking a mobile phone for satoshi is nonsense!


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: reck1ess on November 27, 2017, 12:33:41 AM
For me, I don't think it's a good idea, since mobile doesn't have fans or some cooler to make it able to mine for a long time. Also most of mining aren't bitcoin but only altcoins. It may also even cost you a lot if ever your mobile get destroy.


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: hernanlazaro on November 27, 2017, 12:36:35 AM
Is mining with mobile device a profitable venture today? I read a bit about this and learned that Monero maybe worth mining. then there's Electroneum as well. I wanted to know from other's experience.

One might ask why spend on buying phones. Instead get a PC. Thing is I have few old phones that I can't sell, I want to see possibility of getting some cost back before giving/throwing them away
Ive tried mining with my mobile device and its not working. I think it is only a waste of time and may cause my mobile to broke. Ive watched many videos about mining and they spend a lot of money to buy some expensive computer parts for their mining and earn only a small amount of bitcoin.


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: Vik87 on December 18, 2017, 02:00:50 PM
You can use the Electroneum app to mine Electroneum and then sell it and buy BTC instead. The app does not use much power on the phone. Its more a kind of POS (prove of stake) than POW (prove or work).


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: HunterBTC on December 18, 2017, 02:14:18 PM
I don't think that it would be beneficial to even mine a Monero using a mobile device because that might even end really up to a year to mine one. If you can have a PC to mine for that then that would be good because it's worth than you just mine it on mobile because if that happens maybe your mobile would end up worse or being damaged. Just keep in mind also that if you are into mining plan ahead to pay electric bills that much.
I think more you use PC or other hardware that is adequate to mine, so you can freely and not vulnerable to damage to hardware that you use. Many tools that can be used to mine one of them is a PC with sufficient capacity to mine.


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: thenameisjay on December 18, 2017, 02:17:31 PM
Is mining with mobile device a profitable venture today? I read a bit about this and learned that Monero maybe worth mining. then there's Electroneum as well. I wanted to know from other's experience.

One might ask why spend on buying phones. Instead get a PC. Thing is I have few old phones that I can't sell, I want to see possibility of getting some cost back before giving/throwing them away

Definitely not with bitcoins for mobile phones. But with a PC? The chances are slim, but I guess mining with a PC is good enough than mining with an ant miner. But with alt coins, I guess the chances with a mobile phone is relatively high, your chances, however, is greater with a faucet.


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: CryptoVance on December 18, 2017, 02:20:39 PM
Altcoins mining is possible with mobile phones. I recently watched a video on YouTube where people are mining Altcoins with mobile phone using MinerGate app.


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: Rubick99 on December 18, 2017, 02:25:16 PM
Mining with mobile device is not recommended. That just makes your device broke. Use mobile device just for trade or transfer only, and to manage your asset on crypto


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: kucritt on December 18, 2017, 02:34:27 PM
for me mining in smartphone (android phone) is not profitable, because i already try it and for 5 minutes my mining work my smarthpone is getting hot and it drain the battery so much, and my phone get freeze for a while, i dont know why it happens but maybe because the hardware of our smartphone is too low for mining


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: ahmadhidayat27 on December 18, 2017, 03:22:24 PM
I'm not suggesting you to mine ALT coins on Android. Because I've tried and proved it right away. You will only waste time and not get paid just the time and effort you have done. Even people who deliberately buy mining tools for thousands of dollars profit they get not so much. It's just my opinion and suggestion based on direct experience, it's up to you. Good luck!


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: drunkcoin on December 18, 2017, 03:25:52 PM
I doubt that you can mine even small altcoins with smartphone, cuz mining requires dedicated graphics. Although newest iPhone X CPU is incredibly fast it doesn't have dedicated graphics as powerful as Nvidia GTX1080Ti.


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: rasmadisulaiman on December 18, 2017, 03:35:22 PM
You could just use a mobile device to be a bitcoin miner. It's just that you need the skills to assemble some mobile devices for use as a mining machine like Samsung with 40 Samsung Galaxy S5.
You can see it here https://www.androidauthority.com/samsung-bitcoin- mining-rig- 810977 /


Title: Re: Mining with mobile device
Post by: azguard on December 18, 2017, 05:41:45 PM
You could just use a mobile device to be a bitcoin miner. It's just that you need the skills to assemble some mobile devices for use as a mining machine like Samsung with 40 Samsung Galaxy S5.
You can see it here https://www.androidauthority.com/samsung-bitcoin- mining-rig- 810977 /

And if you have all this wouldn't be better to buy mining rig rather then mine with cell phones no matter what the model is.
In this its better to invest in mining machine not to phones only waste of money invested.