Topic: BitCoin miner for Android? - page 2. (Read 29642 times)
Yeah, the only benefit of doing this I could think of would be as a conversation peice. I mean, you may be able to get say, 500 KHashes/sec(and that's being extremely optimistic- the mining hardware page says only about 200 is to be expected), but still, that's unbelievably slow all things considered. But hey, I'm not going to stop you. It'd be entertaining in the sense of a 'screw it, we're doing this' sense.
Did he release the apk for the Galaxy S II yet? Im dying.. I know its not profitable but what a conversation piece!!
I already have a hard time getting my Android phone through a whole day. Can't imagine battery life with a mining app! 
Well today you have phones that can solar charge themself
Not a good idea to mine on a phone.
I have the n900 running a very old version of bitcoind, it is very difficult to get to compile bitcoind in arm hardware.
One good thing about software running on n900 is that it will also run on the guruplug, and the openmoko, but none of this platforms are good for mining, might be good for a mining pool where the shares are done by other computers in the case of the guruplug.
In the case of the n900 just by running the bitcoind daemon, the phone gets very hot and drains the battery very quickly, that is running the daemon without any mining gets the phone very hot.
The only reason the daemon was run, was to use the phone as a portable wallet, but it was not a good idea, since it is exactly the same command line daemon that you have on a pc, but on the phone cut and paste from the command line or to the command line can no be done, and typing the bitcoin address with a stylus or keyboard is difficult but not imposible, good for emergencies however.
Also the phone can barely run bitcoind, it lacks resources to run bitcoind properly.
I have the n900 running a very old version of bitcoind, it is very difficult to get to compile bitcoind in arm hardware.
One good thing about software running on n900 is that it will also run on the guruplug, and the openmoko, but none of this platforms are good for mining, might be good for a mining pool where the shares are done by other computers in the case of the guruplug.
In the case of the n900 just by running the bitcoind daemon, the phone gets very hot and drains the battery very quickly, that is running the daemon without any mining gets the phone very hot.
The only reason the daemon was run, was to use the phone as a portable wallet, but it was not a good idea, since it is exactly the same command line daemon that you have on a pc, but on the phone cut and paste from the command line or to the command line can no be done, and typing the bitcoin address with a stylus or keyboard is difficult but not imposible, good for emergencies however.
Also the phone can barely run bitcoind, it lacks resources to run bitcoind properly.
I would like to try it as well. Plus I have a wattmeter, so I will try to do some empirical measurements of the cost-benefits.
kr105, would love to try your android miner.
kr105, would love to try your android miner.
I'm pretty sure it won't be cost effective
The only benefit of this would be possible further exposure of bitcoins
Well... Since kr105 says that he has one in development, might as well try it right? Otherwise all those man-hours of development would be for naught.
Well of course
I do not think this would be profitable, and it may damage your phone, as phones are not designed to operate at that intensity.
Basically, this project would be interesting only, as an experiment, and spreading the news about the bitcoin (as someone mentioned above).
Basically, this project would be interesting only, as an experiment, and spreading the news about the bitcoin (as someone mentioned above).
I would like to try it as well. Plus I have a wattmeter, so I will try to do some empirical measurements of the cost-benefits.
kr105, would love to try your android miner.
kr105, would love to try your android miner.
I'm pretty sure it won't be cost effective
The only benefit of this would be possible further exposure of bitcoins
Well... Since kr105 says that he has one in development, might as well try it right? Otherwise all those man-hours of development would be for naught.
I would like to try it as well. Plus I have a wattmeter, so I will try to do some empirical measurements of the cost-benefits.
kr105, would love to try your android miner.
kr105, would love to try your android miner.
I'm pretty sure it won't be cost effective
The only benefit of this would be possible further exposure of bitcoins
I would like to try it as well. Plus I have a wattmeter, so I will try to do some empirical measurements of the cost-benefits.
kr105, would love to try your android miner.
kr105, would love to try your android miner.
I want to try on my galaxy s2
Lol everyone keeps mentioning phones that would be pointless for sure. Beaglebone (maybe beagleboard might be better) on the other hand might go faster with a mini lunux version no gui, nothing to compute besides btc transactions.
Cost of a battery to the amount of bitcoins you generate will not be worth it :\
That alongside the possibility of your phone pretty much dying..haha
That alongside the possibility of your phone pretty much dying..haha
Even if you could do this, you would make so little ... a couple pennies a day or something.
You won't make any money. In fact, you will lose it. There is no way a phone will ever make more in coin than the cost of electricity.
Even if you could do this, you would make so little ... a couple pennies a day or something.
Dont think this would be good, maybe for litecoin.
Bitcoin on ARM suggests that, like other forms of BTC mining, it works best if you simply ignore the math. For example, there's a post here somewhere where someone estimates their payback period on FPGA hardware to be 2 years. Two years to break even on something that will have no resale value in six months? True Believers have to be lining up left and right for a deal like that.Remember that there is OpenCL supporting gpus already avalibe for ARM cpus...
ARM Gpus from 2012 onward are going to Support full OpenCL, Directx 11, OpenGL 4.0, OpenGL ES 2.0 and some even Directx 9.
Last I checked there was no API yet though, at least not for Android. ARM Gpus from 2012 onward are going to Support full OpenCL, Directx 11, OpenGL 4.0, OpenGL ES 2.0 and some even Directx 9.
Remember that there is OpenCL supporting gpus already avalibe for ARM cpus...
ARM Gpus from 2012 onward are going to Support full OpenCL, Directx 11, OpenGL 4.0, OpenGL ES 2.0 and some even Directx 9.
ARM Gpus from 2012 onward are going to Support full OpenCL, Directx 11, OpenGL 4.0, OpenGL ES 2.0 and some even Directx 9.
As long as your phone is plugged into someone else's power. (at work, maybe?)
I'm looking to optimize it to give at least 500khash/s per core, so i can get 1mh/s on my phone. Yes, all of this is just for fun, not profitable at all. I will let you know when it is ready
an arm core optimised release would be useful in other areas as well, so please include source in any release.
Though for 1Mhs you might as well put it on glbse.com in one of the 1Mhs/share mining co.s and have a responsive phone :-)
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An android miner would actually be a cool but very wasteful way to pay for android software.
Want to play a puzzle? pay by mining in the backgound!
and that would be a sure way for your app to be thrown out of the android market / google play.
But nice thinking ^^
Edit: Please release your code !!
Want to play a puzzle? pay by mining in the backgound!
and that would be a sure way for your app to be thrown out of the android market / google play.
But nice thinking ^^
Edit: Please release your code !!
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