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The new updates on Google again hit the crypto headlines due to its ban on cryptocurrency mining apps on Play Store. Play Store, the pre-installed Android based app will no longer feature crypto mining apps for the crypto enthusiasts. The developer policies of Google Play Store have completely prohibited the cryptocurrency mining apps which supposedly feature disruptive ads.

Amidst this stringent measure, the company has still considered giving permission to those apps which focus on remotely handling crypto mining. Android's digital distribution services has previously released update that led to the banning of all apps pertaining to fake ID.

I didn't get it. If the user understands what he is doing with the mining app then Google has no right to ban those genuine mining apps completely. I agree that mining on a smartphone is not much rewarding as compared to that of mining using advanced rigs but still, the user is doing it on his own responsibility. I can understand if Google stops featuring such apps in their Editors Choice section but putting the ban without justifiable reason is not acceptable.

None of those apps are telling the users the truth.
And truth was that for the most app there was barely any mining done and the apps were full of ads, that's how the "devs" were earning tons of money and you were just destroying your phone.
There was no warning about what 24/h mining would do to your phone and battery, there was no warning you're going to earn 2 cents a year.

Those apps were used just to promote shitcoins and tricking newbies.
Goodbye and good riddance!

That’s a bad news for me. But I hope I can find another way  as solution. But I will faced some problem at the beginning because I was use to with google apps.

Correct. It's almost impossible to utilize a mobile device's performance/power for mining (mining takes a lot, A LOT of power/performance). Mobiles/Tablets/Laptops/Low-end computers cannot be used for mining.

Nice decision by Google. Mining apps are nothing but crap providing you a very few cents/satoshis by showing you annoying ads all the time.

androind devices are not designed for mining. it would kill th battery and fry the CPU

is the OP stuck in 2012, back when webbrowser extensions / home mining was a temporary thing

honestly if people think they can mine bitcoin using a phone.. have obviously not done thier research

google isnt stopping anything real.. its stopping the scams that pretend they are mining but really they are spyware and trojans

Really? I don't think it's worth installing apps in your smartphone to earn pennies mate. If you want to mine consider investing in a more suitable device. You're only burning your phone for cents you cant even use to pay the data you are using in your phone.

It's good that google is taking an action against fake apps that claims they are mining. Anyway, will this include those crypto apps which lets you generate coins by exercising? Isn't that considered as "mining" the coins?

I heard the news before. But i can't understand why they did this. As far as i know Google has no right to ban cryptocurrency mining app. So it’s not justifiable.

I am atleast in google's side on this matter, all those creepy apps that claim to mine bitcoin from your phone, free bitcoin ponzis are really headache for many users. Many of them are there to just show you ads and they will never pay you and some even ask you to send few bitcoin to upgrade your miner or similar bullshit.

From my point of view its not amatter of concern. Google just ban mining app from play store. As far I know it temporary they will fixed it very soon. It will not affect in the crypto currency market I believe.

I do not think it will affect the market very much. It's not so easy to pay for mining from mobile devices.

This is a bit frustrating since we can mine using smartphones. We need to look a bit further and see if this really is the case or not.

Nice development from Google, most of this crypto mining apps are scam and they use it to scam newbies who are new to crypto world.

If the user understands what he is doing with the exploit application, Google does not have the right to completely ban those genuine mining applications. Most exploit applications are just scams that contain a lot of ads. and eat a lot of your time.

Good. Those never really amounted to anything, from what I heard. Never tried using them. For all the effort and the risk of frying my device, I would have just bought bitcoins from an exchange during a dip and held it. Easy peasy.

Also, Google owns the platform, they can ban whatever they want. There used to be apps that allows Youtube to play in the background even when the phone is locked. That didn't sit well with Google's marketing plans so they banned them.

If these are legitimate projects, the devs can just release an .apk.


Haha yes, better just make your own app that'll earn you ads rather than install those. Who knows what malware your phone might contract.

there is no "genuine mining applications" for your cell phone and play store is for android phone applications not PC. so there is no point in allowing applications that are not possible to even exist.

I second that opinion. Google play store is actually overburdened with loads of mining apps now and 99.99% of them doesn't do any good. I tried few of them when I started my crypto journey without any luck. It's better to have a clean marketplace instead of these useless apps.

Wait they are dictating what can be sold/downloaded on their platform.... How dare they.  ::)

I was about to pull out my first gen iphone and go to town earning so many satoshis I could buy another next week when it dies.

That will just be one less delusion out there about mining BTC, mind you it has been alomost 3 months since I saw a post about mining on a phone. If only we could get people to update their websites as well to let people know you can't CPU/GPU mine anymore.

They are taking actions with these mining apps but they aren't taking actions with the phishing sites and fake websites that has been advertised by them.

If this is the start of them stepping in with these apps, I hope they'll next those fake websites that mainly targets crypto newbies.

I don't mind if they can remain that too aggressive to crypto or they are very much skeptic to it but the action as the most popular search engine where they are allowing a lot of phishing sites to exist on their search query is really unethical.

They are taking actions if somebody reports that site/app that's on their engine is a fake or is only there to cause harm.

SO many minning apps are available on playstore, but i think most of them are fake, and givving nothing. Freebitcoin and freedoge coin app on playstore is providing very few btc and doge coin but in long run.

Thats upsetting! hopefully you will find a solution soon.

Actually it's a wise decision from Google. Those apps in playstore that were telling you that you can mine bitcoin/satoshi by solving captchas and clicking/watching annoying ads are "Scam and Fake apps". I've tried one of those before but guess what? A bitcoin mining app? Where you can easily modify the value of satoshi by modifying its "Shared preferences" file?

I assure that the developers of those apps earned some bucks for fooling people to use their apps. Its Google's great move to take some action to those fraudulent developers and apps  :-\

Hmmm.... That's interesting, but I don't see that as a real threat for us because you can easily download and use applications on android smartphones without having to download it directly from Play market.

Many cryptocurrency mining apps are living on the Play Store. Some of them aren’t harmful, but the concern is the existence of the apps that hide the mining code and perform cryptojacking. I think they are doing the right thing to protect their users. However, they mentioned in the updated policy that "We permit apps that remotely manage the mining of cryptocurrency,”. So you still can use these apps.

And what is the real purpose of Google forbiding bitcoin mining applications via Android? Will it cause bad for Google Play Store? I don't think so, because the APK was not made on behalf of Google, right? ???

That is another bad news in cryptocurrency I can't understand why they did this to us and to crypto. I hope that they find a way to get back the crypto. But they have a reason why they do that because most of this crypto mining apps are scam and they use it to scam newbies who are new to crypto world.

i never involved such kind of things which can possible harm my device and informations. I am not interested  either using play store  for applications.

Bitcoin is a decentralised crypto currency and this is the reason that there is no such proper authentic regulating body over the bitcoin who could keep eye over all the bitcoin activities thus leading to illegal use of bitcoin so because of this many countries and big companies are not legalising bitcoin and this could be the most probable reason why google has banned the crypto ads but to their knowledge once Facebook and Twitter has banned crypto ads leading to decrease in the valuation of their stocks.

I think that this is how it adversely affects Google or just this kind of public relations advertising such a move Well, whatever the direction of Google in the right to make such decisions, I personally do not use any such applications to get bitcoins or other coins

We know that google is a big company. Making an app on playstore is very easy to do and it really depends on the developer on how he do it. Like for what  i know is that they can see our information and tracks what we are doing. So for me this a good news that playstore will ban crypto mining apps on playstore becauase it is not really safe and google can't track all day the happenings. But don't worry there are still crypto mining websites that are 100% safe to use.

Most exploit applications are just scams that contain a lot of ads. and eat plenty of your time. I'm about to pull out my first iphone gen and go to the town earning lots of satoshi, I can buy another week when it dies. If we are only able to make people update their site and let people know you can no longer use the CPU / GPU. If this is their start stepping in with these applications, I Hopefully they will follow those fake sites that primarily target new nannies. Freebitcoin and freedoge coin applications on the playstore are providing very little btc and doge coin but in the long run.

no there aren't. any mining website or commonly known as the cloud miners are a terrible things to use because they are either scams since they run a ponzi scheme to make money or they eventually are forced to turn into a ponzi scheme when they fail to make profit and have to sell hashrate they don't have.

Maybe because there are many mining apps with fake promise to be able to pay the miners. I have found many fake miner apps, if you mine the coin and want to withdraw the coin, you won't be able to do it or it is pending. If google banned mining apps from now, i wonder how electroneum will create their mobile mining apps.

How dare they? That would be just a little illusion out there about exploiting BTC, mind you it has been almost 3 months since I saw a post about tapping on the phone.

Mobile has not met the demand for Mining, the Google ban does not affect much to users! If mining on the phone will adversely affect the daily use of mobile devices!

Actually the crypto mining is not possible with the Android hardwares because it is not designed for the 24/7 operations so if you try to do that then it will wreck your phone and I don't know how they are oing to create policies against it because most of the apps that are claiming mining apps are no related to that job it simply a piece of shot to advertise some pop-up ads.

I have seen an Electronium Coin mining app in google play store. That was good and they paid to the users! But after Electroniums success, many mining apps were created. Litecoin, Ethereum, Ripple mining apps were among them. Maybe they were not official, they did not pay to mobile phone miners. I think Google's decision is okay! People were getting scam!

I knew FB and Google doese not support crypto. But it is not important. I believe they do not approve crypto because it is not good. They have own reasons. Anyway, there are still hundreds corporations in the market accept and use crypto technology. That's enough

There are many fake mining apps in google playstore, maybe that is the reason they banning the apps.
If you want to mining crypto, just use your pc and not your phone. Using PC will be more efficient because you can get high hash rate with low power.

In my opinion, mining on a phone is not a good idea in the first place and maybe it's even good that they banned so many scam apps
However, their new regulations are not only about mining apps, there are so many restrictions for all crypto related apps, took a month for me to upload such

I gather they received a lot of complaints from people about phones being damaged or being rendered useless by these Apps, or they would not have reacted this way. Anyone that tried these Apps before, would tell you that it is useless and the battery and resources are hammered, without any result in the mining.

Mobile phones should never be used for mining, even if you are only going to mine some worthless Shitcoin with it.  >:( Why would you "kill" your phones performance, for a gain of a few cents?

Will this update remove the applications that associated with Crypto exploits? Moderators may be the best way to do this, but many forms are posted to the store every day, so it's hard to control them all.

They should. I know a few people that got into those apps and they only earned nothing. I don't know what's the real objective of the owner of those apps for faking such things. Google did the right move and they really should ban those apps.