Interesting how do you manage to connect these devices into this pool without an ASIC unit?
I have 3 broken old phones and 2 broken laptops that I bought for around 5$ each and I already fixed them and no one in my family wants to use them due to the versions are outdated and slow.
I might be lucky to mine a block reward if I run them for mining so what software or tools did you use? Do you have any guides that you can share?
Of course.
I am sure that you are aware the odds. There is a chance theoretically, but in practice, it is not possible mine. Still, I would bet that; in next 10 years, we will see a CPU mined block. Just for fun. I just put a message about it recently here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5462980.msg63465128#msg63465128For old PC and Raspberry Pi, I installed Ubuntu Server and have setup cpuminer-multi. I followed this tutorial here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_M13MQQ5GPE&lc=UgxiSCocUAZooN-lFSh4AaABAgKudos to him, it is really good one, but I want to prepare a better one on weekend. I will post here if I prepare.
For Android phones, I used aaminer apk. So you need to enable installing apps from unknown source option and install this apk here.
https://github.com/aa-miner/aaminer/blob/master/aaminer-1-50-release.apkIt is easy and pretty straightforward app. You just put pool url, address and select algorithm as Bitcoin, and press start mining button and that's it.
But use your own risk about this app. I really do not know what it contains really. Do factory reset the phone, enable guest wifi on your router and disable accessing your actual network in your router setting, connect guest wifi, do not login anything, directly install the app. So, in this way, it will be isolated in your network even if it does any harmful activity. According to Public Pool graphs, it does mining as expected.
About pools: CK Pool seems not accepting non ASIC miners. In logs, it shows as accepting but does not show low hash rate users in the website. This is why Public Pool is a better option for low hash rate mining. It shows all users without any minimum hash rate limit.