Can I mine Bitcoins with my smartphone? - page 3.

ribuck

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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.

aleiprecht

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I have seen this:

http://www.bitcoinplus.com/generate

but as others already mentioned, it's not really worth it. If you want to mine, you need serious machinery.

bittencoin

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Just an observation here, but this can't be a serious question that requires serious answers.

XX55XX

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I suppose it wouldn't hurt if you want to complement your other CPUs and GPUs with a bit more power. After all, every bit counts, right?

Tronlet

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That's pretty much useless, I don't see any point in even trying. Remember, you don't get gradual payout, the only way you'd get anything is if you got an entire block of 50 bitcoins, and the chances of getting anything with something that weak are infinitesimal.

Your GPU is much more important than your CPU, as GPU mining is hugely faster, and considering that my computer with full GPU and whatnot would take years to generate a block at the current difficulty, smartphone mining isn't really worth thinking about. It is a cool idea though, sorry!

doodyhead

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I don't think it's really feasible. CPU mining generates very low MHashes on the latest desktop processors. Even dual core phones are still vastly underpowered by comparison.

SomeoneWeird

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Quote from: calista on June 22, 2011, 08:02:04 AM

it has a dual core cpu so it is pretty powerful.

what app is best for mining?

Won't be worth it.

calista

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it has a dual core cpu so it is pretty powerful.

what app is best for mining?

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