Can I mine Bitcoins with my smartphone?

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Quote from: Newar on July 06, 2012, 12:46:58 AM

Found that Litecoin miner for Android:
http://www.file-upload.net/download-4516645/AndLTC-Miner-2.apk.html

QR code in case anyone else wants to try it out on their phone Grin

Doesn't work on my Samsung Epic 4G Touch running CM9 Alpha 6.

Newar

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Found that Litecoin miner for Android:
http://www.file-upload.net/download-4516645/AndLTC-Miner-2.apk.html

silentseawolf

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smart phone/tablet CPUs are built for apps and video/sound, not the intense but simple shader and pixel math that a GPU is built for. even a low end GPU is more powerful then your CPU by a power of ten, but it is very specialized, and does not do anything else very well. the CPU is the all around number cruncher, and will do most things well.

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Quote from: tgmarks on June 27, 2012, 04:49:56 PM

I found the litecoin miner.

Free version: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.simran.andltcminer

Pro/Donate version ($0.99): https://market.android.com/details?id=com.simran.andltcminerpro

That is the same as:

Quote from: Newar on June 27, 2012, 12:37:48 AM

Quote from: Trance104 on June 26, 2012, 09:22:13 AM

The LTC miner is not on the marketplace. There are no miners on the marketplace sadly. :0P

You could try contact the dev:
http://simrandev.com/ or https://github.com/Simran

I however got a feeling that he canned the project.

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You can but wont be worth it to slow.

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Quote from: Francesco on June 27, 2012, 05:03:13 PM

Quote from: tgmarks on June 27, 2012, 04:49:56 PM

I found the litecoin miner.

Free version: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.simran.andltcminer

Pro/Donate version ($0.99): https://market.android.com/details?id=com.simran.andltcminerpro

Oh, litecoins! On my pc I got 2-3 litecoins per nigh, so, on a phone you can maybe hope in a full litecoin per 12h of intense work!

However, I am curious... but the link appears broken to me! Sad

The free link seems to work, but the donate seems broken.

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Quote from: tgmarks on June 27, 2012, 04:49:56 PM

I found the litecoin miner.

Free version: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.simran.andltcminer

Pro/Donate version ($0.99): https://market.android.com/details?id=com.simran.andltcminerpro

Oh, litecoins! On my pc I got 2-3 litecoins per nigh, so, on a phone you can maybe hope in a full litecoin per 12h of intense work!

However, I am curious... but the link appears broken to me! Sad

SheldonCooper

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My 2500k overclocked to 4700 MHz gives 5-6 Mh/s

CPU mining is useless.

tgmarks

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I found the litecoin miner.

Free version: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.simran.andltcminer

Pro/Donate version ($0.99): https://market.android.com/details?id=com.simran.andltcminerpro

wong RAP

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Well I actually wanna know along with op.

Trance104

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Thanks for the links Newar... I was just looking to add a few shares just so I could have more.

Francesco

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Of course everyone would love to go around knowing to have a money generator in pocket Grin

But it's not even worth the headaches to set it up -even if you have free hardware and electricity. I tried for some time to run the bitcoinplus web java miner, both on my pc (both it and electricity are paid by the university) and on my website's visitors', but I've stopped it since I probably wouldn't even have reached the 0,02 BTC (minmum amount to cash out, and 0,01 BTC is fee) this year... and 0,02 BTC is an amount I hope to find laughable soon now that I am on GLBSE Wink

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Quote from: Trance104 on June 26, 2012, 09:22:13 AM

The LTC miner is not on the marketplace. There are no miners on the marketplace sadly. :0P

You could try contact the dev:
http://simrandev.com/ or https://github.com/Simran

I however got a feeling that he canned the project.

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I'm not trying to re-coup the cost of my phone and charging it would be done at work as in I planned to only use it while I mined at work.

I've already got back what I paid for my phone through use of the services it provides me with daily.

The LTC miner is not on the marketplace. There are no miners on the marketplace sadly. :0P

I also though about doing it while I drove places in my car. I'm already running my A/C and the charge will be fine because of my cars motion and battery warranty.

I planned to remove at least the back cover while mining, but was going to gauge it if it worked out.

A_CardeN

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Even if you could get it to work ... you would have SO many problems.

Heat, because you have no vent. Speed, it would take you a year to mine one BTC probably. Value, your phone probably costs 600 dollars.

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Imagine a room full of cellphones just mining away ahahaha

Newar

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There is (was?) a LTC miner available for Android, beta but worked.

Trance104

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Has there been any update to CPU mining in smartphones? I don't care about any debate about cost vs mining from a phone. I don't pay for any of it. I would be happy submitting 5 shares an hour if it meant me getting them for free.

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Quote from: ribuck on June 22, 2011, 08:34:07 AM

Quote from: bittencoin on June 22, 2011, 08:25:26 AM

... this can't be a serious question that requires serious answers.

It sounds like a reasonable question to me.

But there's no point mining on a smartphone. Running bitcoind on my Nokia N900 yields 0.13 Megahashes/second. On average that would generate a block once every 335445 days (about once every thousand years).

You might do slightly better on a smartphone with a GPU, but the next difficulty increase due in a few days will take care of that. The GPU on a smartphone is nothing like the GPU on a 5870 card.

Where do I find a mining app for my N900 phone? How to setup mining? I wish to complement what I already have in mining ability.I know the implications of mining on a phone so please don't debate with me about that as I am aware but I choose to experiment and use auch an app on my N900.CPU id OC'd from 600MHz to 1150MHz.Now if only there was a GPU miner for Nokia N900 phone.Also how to overclock N900s GPU to speed up GUI?

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CPU mining even on a desktop PC is a no-win game. You pay more for power than you get in BTC. Unless you have your PC running 24/7 anyways it's not worth it.

On a smart phone it's even worse because now you have to charge your phone every hour and it's not as efficient as your desktop CPU.

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