Wait, I could mine Monero on my phone? 🤔
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look in to it
Here's an opensourced version for older devices.
Nothing open source that works on newer devices? Sad
There is, there's an app for Android 10 and above
Haven't been able to get anything working. XMRig for Android doesn't work out of the box and search engines don't find any info on how to get it working
Mining Monero was useless on my 6 node x86 cluster
WTF are you going to do accomplish with a silly arm device w/Android
Sounds like a skill issue
I should have given you a serious answer.
I didn't give you a serious answer at first because I guess I don't actually take phone based mining very seriously, but you did need the actual info you were asking about.
Answer:
You can get free electricity for a phone at most libraries but they might not react the same way to you bringing your 6 node cluster to plug in.
When you have to pay for the electricity, the newest phones always have newer CPU transistor manufacturing than your cluster for better power efficiency.
So if anyone can make a profit on the cost of electricity to mine cryptocurrency, it might be a phone.
But like I said, it's all kinda silly to me since phones aren't really secure or private enough to be as good for this as dedicated mining rigs can be.
AH ty.
But ignore all that.
Just think about time and money....with phone hardware, you can expect to make $0. I only made at most 2 cents a day with 6 nodes
Nothing useless about securing the network and getting paid for doing so. Running any device via xmrig just adds to the global hashes
Decentralized, localised, cheap, accessible, private, anonymous, peer to peer,
What more do you need?
How do you actually get it to connect to anything though? Everything I've tried just has the pools reject the connection
I haven't tried it yet!
I'll only be able to do that in a few days time.
There is a xmrig wizard: https://xmrig.com/wizard
what pool are you using? did you set up in accordance with them?
I've tried a few different pools starting with HashVault, tried both the app's built-in presets and the xmrig.com wizard
Couldn't find any further info about how to set up, so not sure about accordance
Weird thing is there is a guide for mining Nano using XMRig which might have the info I'm looking for but I don't feel like clicking that search result since it's sus. Just can't find anything else, all the other search results are even more unrelated to my queries but the search engine is good at trying to make them look like possible answers to make me waste time sifting through 😮💨
Haven't been able to get this working.
It's not a great idea to mine on today's consumer devices anyway - especially for a coin like Monero where the more blockchain data the deep state has, the more the purpose is defeated.
But on the other hand I think some coins should allow mining on consumer devices just so people have another way to try to get a little bit of cryptocurrency. I don't think Monero should be one of those coins, but it is, so it would be fun to try.
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