Mining crypto by walking

[Abiky]

This idea is stupid, it's trivial to create thousands of virtual smartphones that will report that they are moving, and there would be no way distinguish between them and legitimate users. All these "proof of human" type of coins fail to create a truly secure system, because this problem is quite fundamental and people outside of crypto couldn't solve it to this day, so how can some noname startup succeed here?

In some way, the system can be cheated by anyone worldwide. But it can be perfected over time, if there's demand for something like this from people in the mainstream world. What I know is that getting paid by just walking, could lead us towards a much healthier society in the future. A mechanism that would prevent cheating via sensors and the use of a camera, would make this more practical for mainstream use. Instead of making a cryptocurrency from scratch (like the MangoCoinz project did), one could create an ERC-20 token specifically for this purpose. With mainstream adoption, I'm sure that "mining crypto by walking" will be a big hit for years to come.

Any cryptocurrency that can be gained so easily can likely be gamed. There would to be 2 systems in place to prevent this using your idea;

1. Walkers would need to somehow unequivocably prove that they were indeed walking, rather than strapping their phones to one of those Pokemon Go-esque fake walking devices.
2. The reward would need to be so small that nobody would bother faking it, or running 100 phones at once to multiply their rewards.

If (1) is true, then the barrier to entry will be too high to make it casual. If (2) is true, then it won't properly incentivize people to use it.

With that said, I do like the concept of being incentivized to improve, but it's a hard model to monetize. For example Healthy Wage offers up to $10,000 for meeting some difficult weight loss goals, but requires substantial proof.

There are also platforms where you can bet on a weight loss plan, and people will bet against you. If you succeed, you win the counterbets, if you lose, you've gotta pay up.

I've thought of that at first. But with proper planning, developers could come up with a way to prevent cheating of the system. Believe me, monetizing the number of exercises a person does could turn out to be beneficial for society as we know it. But even if this never becomes a reality via the use of an app, at least it could be done "the hard way" (by rewarding people manually who provide proof of walking). Back in the day where MangoCoinz was popular, I used to have a lot of fun walking while getting paid in return. With enough demand, any project which decides to reward its users via walking will become successful in the long run.

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[fuer44]

I think it is a new form, rather than suggesting medicine for disease prevention, exercise is the most effective activity for that. maybe in the future, mangocoinz can explore more to get liquidity from their tokens. not only mining on foot or jogging (sports) but also making products that support sports products that help in doing the sport. I think it will be more effective and can be synchronized with each other.

[jhonjhon]

It just sad that it was created in times wherein bitcoin isn't that popular yet, this only shows that bitcoin can be easily be mined before. Nowadays, if such app is present I think that a lot will patronize it because all you need to do is walk and you are being paid in coins, you will have the chance to exercise while earning. I also hope that another team will be able to come up with something like this to encourage people to exercise and earn at the same time.

[ashmodeus]

its will not have a value,i am sure.
"by simply walking" pfffttt.
its soo easy to cheated system, although the project have a great started,its just for a short time,when greedy people see it, i am sure there can be manipulated.

[TastyChillySauce00]

Don't quite understand all these ideas of "mining by walking", "mining by playing", mining by "feeding your neighbour's dog"... What's the point seriously? I think this is funny but nothing more. No real value.

A way to motivate person to do something by rewarding them few cents for a whole month I guess. The team that created such project I could assume are people who are doing it for fun and there's nothing more to it. Even "mining by walking" doesn't make sense at the slightest. If mining in blockchain means solving math problem through the use of computing power, how walking around the neighbourhood could solve a math problem let alone millions of it.

[Ucy]

I like the idea too... though I haven't tried it before.
It could be viable if well built. The developers probably need to take into consideration the possibility of people cheating to earn and dump. 
Lots of things will need to be put in place to keep people on the network...like a marketplace, a social media for joggers/runners/sports people etc..

How about mining difficulty? I guess if it becomes difficult to mine, people will stop exercising.

[marilynmanson21]

it would be better if you explain in detail about the products being developed, how can we mine just by walking?
okay, maybe it's good for us to make us passionate about walking, but if there is no detailed explanation, according to me, it's like an idea, it won't be realized,

[Eugenar]

Here's a question, what if there's no people will run to mine cryptocurrency of them? IMO, it might be bad as in cryptocurrency, we need consistent mining to have transactions be efficient in a daily basis, or else, they still have mining facilities and nodes to operate while there are people using their app.

Last option is instead of mining, what about a faucet of crypto that will surely attract people to be healthy and walk everytime knowing that they could save fuels and will earn at the same time.

[Tduty]

The idea is unique but I don't think this will be accepted well. Earning good money through Mining is not that easy, mate! Mining by walking means you have to have an app on a smartphone, right? So, it's another mining by smartphone project! The profit is very limited but the damages are high for a smartphone, so, I am not interested!

[ATSgrowth]

It is a good idea to get paid for walking, but who will buy these tokens? What will be the use case for tokens? You can earn tokens, but nobody will buy tokens from you - thats mean that you not earned money, just some points. 

[Smitty Werben Man Jensen]

The idea is unique but I don't think this will be accepted well. Earning good money through Mining is not that easy, mate! Mining by walking means you have to have an app on a smartphone, right? So, it's another mining by smartphone project! The profit is very limited but the damages are high for a smartphone, so, I am not interested!

now Samsung and HTC have also started to make crypto-based phones, if I can buy Bitcoin or other altcoins with mobile phones, I will buy it, but it looks like the specifications that must be available for these phones must be really support, the price will definitely be expensive  

[tungaqhd]

A couple of years ago, there was a crypto project named "MangoCoinz" which allowed anyone to earn crypto by simply walking. The app used the smartphone's pedometer to keep track of the steps taken by an specific person. This encouraged anyone to exercise their body while getting paid in return. While this was great back then, the project is no longer being developed. Something like this would've been great to have in the mainstream world today, but I guess there was lack of demand for it back then.

I'd hope that someday a new dev team takes charge of the "MangoCoinz" project or simply create a fork of their own, to allow people to "mine" crypto by walking. It's completely revolutionary way of doing exercise while getting paid in return. Maybe launching an ERC-20 token with its own app will do the trick? Whichever way it is, I look forward towards the revival of an app that would work just like "MangoCoinz" did in its early days.

Do you think something like this will be viable in the future?

I think this is not a good idea because smartphone pedometer can be faked by modifying sensor signal in virtual devices. It will be cheated like pokemon go.

[JC btc]

It is a good idea to get paid for walking, but who will buy these tokens? What will be the use case for tokens? You can earn tokens, but nobody will buy tokens from you - thats mean that you not earned money, just some points. 

That's the question, lol, who will be interested with this and what will benefit them from investing on it. That's why we really need to be extra careful, we should not just attract with the use case and how easy we are going to earn, because it's easy to have those tokens, but who will buy it? Let's think well before we invest.

[naruto7676]

Kinda interesting but in my own opinion, it is really a great way to innovate mainly you can actually mine and earn crypto by just walking and it is a great way to encouraged people to do exercise everyday. But on the otber hand, this kind of projects will not make any good investment Maybe the reason why this mangocoinz is dead today because it has no volume that no one is trading with it. So leaving one alts name that mamy investor might interested amd this alts called Aci coin.

[Zionatin]

There is an app called sweatcoin and you walk to earn sweat coins. The newest update allows your steps to even be measures whilst indoors so you earn while walking around your house too. Have a look here :
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.sweatco.app&hl=en_USA

You can also donate your coins charity. Keep in shape and earn.

[Aikidoka]

I've already heard about the app "MangoCoinz" before, but I didn't know that the project is no longer developed by now, I hope that the team come back and develop it again because it's really amazing to earn crypto by just walking, anyway, I have been using an app since 4 months which it's in the same concept as MangoCoinz, it's called "Sweatcoin" which it's available in the app store and play store as well. I've just earned really a good amount of coins as far as now, I really recommend it for people here.

[MiraMiraMira]

It is great that this project exists. Perhaps vehicles will be stored. Everyone will keep a clean environment

[Abiky]

It is a good idea to get paid for walking, but who will buy these tokens? What will be the use case for tokens? You can earn tokens, but nobody will buy tokens from you - thats mean that you not earned money, just some points. 

Good point. There might be no use for something that rewards you by simply doing nothing other than walking. It's important to keep in mind the use cases a cryptocurrency will bring, in order to take it as a serious investment for the long term. For the end user, getting paid while walking is a fun and rewarding task. But it's terrible for the sustainability of the underlying Blockchain network. Maybe that's why MangoCoinz failed in the first place?

I believe that something like this works best in a form of a token (ERC-20) than anything else. To keep the longevity of the crypto project, the dev could decide to give a very small reward to its users by walking. That way, the sell pressure will be reduced allowing the coin to maintain its price across the market. It would be something similar to a crypto faucet where you get paid fractions of a penny by just spending hours on it. At least, the idea is there. Making it something viral or popular within the mainstream world, is another story. Rewarding users with free coins by walking could turn out to be beneficial for the mainstream adoption of Blockchain technology. But I guess that there are other more important things to work on, besides this. Just my opinion

[mirgo1791]

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[Pinkris128]

A couple of years ago, there was a crypto project named "MangoCoinz" which allowed anyone to earn crypto by simply walking. The app used the smartphone's pedometer to keep track of the steps taken by an specific person. This encouraged anyone to exercise their body while getting paid in return. While this was great back then, the project is no longer being developed. Something like this would've been great to have in the mainstream world today, but I guess there was lack of demand for it back then.

I'd hope that someday a new dev team takes charge of the "MangoCoinz" project or simply create a fork of their own, to allow people to "mine" crypto by walking. It's completely revolutionary way of doing exercise while getting paid in return. Maybe launching an ERC-20 token with its own app will do the trick? Whichever way it is, I look forward towards the revival of an app that would work just like "MangoCoinz" did in its early days.

Do you think something like this will be viable in the future?

It is really fun to earn cryptocurrency by just walking but it will be very difficult to attract investors in this kind of project because people will just focused in earning cryptocurrency for free that they always keep selling it, without buying it pr investing their money, that is why MangoCoinz failed in the first place.