Is it actually possible to mine Bitcoin using a mobile phone?

[YEKTANA]

Hi everyone, I have a beginner question. Is there any real way to mine Bitcoin using a mobile phone?
I’m genuinely interested in getting into Bitcoin mining, but I have zero hands-on experience and very limited technical knowledge. Most of what I’ve heard so far is that mining requires noisy ASIC machines, high electricity consumption, and setups that are not really suitable for home use.
So I wanted to ask: Is mining with a mobile phone or even a regular laptop technically possible, or is it basically unrealistic today? If it is possible in some way, does it make sense financially, or is it only useful for learning purposes?
Besides loud ASIC miners, are there any other ways to participate in Bitcoin mining (for example, cloud mining or similar alternatives)?
I’d really appreciate advice from people who have experience in this area, especially to understand whether learning about mining is worth the time at this point or not.

[philipma1957]

Hi everyone, I have a beginner question. Is there any real way to mine Bitcoin using a mobile phone?
I’m genuinely interested in getting into Bitcoin mining, but I have zero hands-on experience and very limited technical knowledge. Most of what I’ve heard so far is that mining requires noisy ASIC machines, high electricity consumption, and setups that are not really suitable for home use.
So I wanted to ask: Is mining with a mobile phone or even a regular laptop technically possible, or is it basically unrealistic today? If it is possible in some way, does it make sense financially, or is it only useful for learning purposes?
Besides loud ASIC miners, are there any other ways to participate in Bitcoin mining (for example, cloud mining or similar alternatives)?
I’d really appreciate advice from people who have experience in this area, especially to understand whether learning about mining is worth the time at this point or not.

Forget mining with a cell phone
Forget mining with a laptop
Forget mining with a pc.

You need to use an asic.

but you can go cheap buy a bit axe and hope.

my bitaxe mining solo cost under 200 dollars to buy it.
and it costs 7.5 cents a day to mine it. as 15watts x 24hours = 360 watts or .36x20cents per kwatt

and I get a shot at each and every block to hit that motherfucker.
With great luck I will hit one today as I type this out.

the gui of my miner

the pool info of my miner

[NotFuzzyWarm]

Hi everyone, I have a beginner question. Is there any real way to mine Bitcoin using a mobile phone?<snip>
So I wanted to ask: Is mining with a mobile phone or even a regular laptop technically possible, or is it basically unrealistic today? If it is possible in some way, does it make sense financially, or is it only useful for learning purposes?
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Forget it, period. Ref https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2415854.0 mainly point-3
Even for learning purposes, using anything other than an ASIC-based miner is absolutely pointless because CPU's/GPU's process the data (mine) using entirely different program structures and flow.

[ABCbits]

Just half a year ago, similar question was asked on Bitcoin mining using an Android phone. You can see everyone's answer, where most of them sound similar.

So I wanted to ask: Is mining with a mobile phone or even a regular laptop technically possible, or is it basically unrealistic today? If it is possible in some way, does it make sense financially, or is it only useful for learning purposes?

Financially it doesn't make any sense. But if you just want to do it for learning purpose, consider using device you already have. I assume you're serious about learning purpose and have any computer/laptop, so personally i would suggest you to read this guide [Guide] Solo mine testnet bitcoins with bfgminer, Bitcoin Core, and a CPU/GPU.

Besides loud ASIC miners, are there any other ways to participate in Bitcoin mining (for example, cloud mining or similar alternatives)?

ASIC also comes on small size. such as BitAxe Gamma and Compac F. But such ASIC have poor hashrate/price ratio, so don't expect to break even unless unless you're extremely lucky through solo mining.

[BitMaxz]

Besides loud ASIC miners, are there any other ways to participate in Bitcoin mining (for example, cloud mining or similar alternatives)?

There are some legit cloud mining services out there, but the problem is all of them are sold out, like on the Binance pool.
You can try the renting services, but I'm sure you won't make any profit there because most of the hashrate sellers there are selling their hashrate expensively. Also, there are some fraud sellers not providing the right hashrate they promise, but if you still insist, check this link below.

- https://www.miningrigrentals.com/rigs/sha256

[FP91G]

Hi everyone, I have a beginner question. Is there any real way to mine Bitcoin using a mobile phone?
I’m genuinely interested in getting into Bitcoin mining, but I have zero hands-on experience and very limited technical knowledge. Most of what I’ve heard so far is that mining requires noisy ASIC machines, high electricity consumption, and setups that are not really suitable for home use.
So I wanted to ask: Is mining with a mobile phone or even a regular laptop technically possible, or is it basically unrealistic today? If it is possible in some way, does it make sense financially, or is it only useful for learning purposes?
Besides loud ASIC miners, are there any other ways to participate in Bitcoin mining (for example, cloud mining or similar alternatives)?
I’d really appreciate advice from people who have experience in this area, especially to understand whether learning about mining is worth the time at this point or not.

If you're a beginner, don't try this. You can mine altcoins on your PC and earn Bitcoin rewards, but it won't be entirely profitable. If you're willing to invest heavily, consider renting out computers for AI mining and similar offers. But this field is definitely not for beginners.

[ABCbits]

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If you're a beginner, don't try this. You can mine altcoins on your PC and earn Bitcoin rewards, but it won't be entirely profitable.

Doesn't most app that give Bitcoin when you mine altcoin either take big cut or require KYC (such as Nicehash)?

If you're willing to invest heavily, consider renting out computers for AI mining and similar offers. But this field is definitely not for beginners.

I did quick and rough research, but doesn't seem to be profitable either. WhatToMine shows single Nvidia 5080 currently can have $0.65 revenue[1], but hourly price for that GPU apperarently start from $0.14/hour[2-4]. That means you're losing $2.71/day. CMIIW.

[1] https://whattomine.com/coins...
[2] https://qudata.ai/en/gpu/RTX5080
[3] https://getdeploying.com/gpus/nvidia-rtx5080
[4] https://gpus.io/gpus/rtx5080

[mocacinno]

I agree with the previous posters, but wanted to give you some more background info...

A cpu, GPU, fpga, old ASIC can technically create sha256d hashes.

Basically, you need the block header of the previous valid block, you need the merkle tree of the transactions in your current block (the block you're trying to get into the blockchain), you need to be able to iterate over nonces and create a sha256d hash of the header of your own new block. If you find a sha256d hash of your new block's block header that's under the current target, your block is valid... and TECHNICALLY, you can use pen and paper, a cpu, a gpu, an fpga, and old asic to do this... Technically

Please not that i used the word technically..

There's a nice article on the bitcoin wiki: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Non-specialized_hardware_comparison
If you're asking about mining with a cellphone, the benchmark puts you in the "less than 1.000.000 hashes per second" category (<1Mh/s).
If you look at the current hashrate chart: https://www.coinwarz.com/mining/bitcoin/hashrate-chart you'll see that the current estimated hashrate is around 1 ZH/s.

1 ZettaHash = 1.000.000.000.000.000 MegaHash

This means that your cellphone would have one chance in 1.000.000.000.000.000 to solve the current block because your cellphone has about 1/1.000.000.000.000.000 of the network's estimated hashrate...

This looks "feasible" because people are notoriously bad when it comes to interpreting large numbers...

I looked at the powerball odds, those are one in 292.200.000 to win the jackpot... It's about 3,5 million times more plausible to win the powerball lottery jackpot than it is to find a valid block with your cellphone... Even if the average time between blocks is ~10 minutes and powerball draws seems to be once every two days, it's still 11.833 times more plausible to win the current powerball jackpot than to solve any block in the time between two powerball draws... AND, if you win powerball, it seems to be a multi million dollar jackpot vs solving a block for ~300k... I did not calculate the cost of running a cellphone cpu, but i'm pretty sure it would be more or less on par with a powerball ticket (since you'd need a cellphone specifically for mining, so you could not use it for other tasks, you'd also need power for your cellphone, cables, chargers... and you'd need network equipment or a mobile subscription to mine...).

Now, i'm not a gambling man myself... But if i had to chose between buying a lottery ticket and mining with my cellphone, the math is pretty clear... It's thousands of times more probable to "win" with a lottery ticket, and the lottery pays out hundreds of times more than solving a block... It's a no-brainer...

The main problem with cellphones is their cost per hash, both in hardware and power cost... They are simply to expensive to buy, store, maintain and they are to inefficient in creating sha256d hashes... If you would buy up 1.000.000.000 old cellphones and let them mine, you'd have a one in a million chance to solve the next block, but you'd need a huge warehouse and a lot of staff to store those phones, and they would burn so much electricity you'd probably have to build your own nuclear power plant to have enough electricity (i did not do the actual calculations)

[FP91G]

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If you're a beginner, don't try this. You can mine altcoins on your PC and earn Bitcoin rewards, but it won't be entirely profitable.

Doesn't most app that give Bitcoin when you mine altcoin either take big cut or require KYC (such as Nicehash)?

If you're willing to invest heavily, consider renting out computers for AI mining and similar offers. But this field is definitely not for beginners.

I did quick and rough research, but doesn't seem to be profitable either. WhatToMine shows single Nvidia 5080 currently can have $0.65 revenue[1], but hourly price for that GPU apperarently start from $0.14/hour[2-4]. That means you're losing $2.71/day. CMIIW.

[1] https://whattomine.com/coins...
[2] https://qudata.ai/en/gpu/RTX5080
[3] https://getdeploying.com/gpus/nvidia-rtx5080
[4] https://gpus.io/gpus/rtx5080

On the Russian board, safar1980 wrote a list of services, most of which do not require KYC.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5457533
Nicehash has become a very bad service, it even stopped working with Russian miners, which is the second largest mining country in the world. Based on the calculator, mining isn't profitable. But that calculator doesn't include all coins