Recently, pool mining has been invented, where pool operator does the work and members of the pool contribute their processing power and receive a fitting reward for that. Regular mining uses your computer processor or your GPU power to solve a proof of work algorithm of a coin to create a new block, add it to the blockchain and receive the mining reward for his work. And yes, the word privilege is in quotes for a reason as well. Android users are the only ones who have the “privilege” to become mobile miners as of now. So if you figured you could kick off a mining side thing with your iPhone, you aren’t in luck. Yes, the sentence above does imply IOS doesn’t have any way of allowing you to mine cryptocurrency. However, apparently some people figured out a couple of ways to use a regular old Android phone for this purpose. Whenever someone mentions crypto mining to you, you will probably think of all those wasted 1080Ti’s endlessly kicking up dust and coins in a Chinese hangar or, as of late, those ASIC mining devices doing the same, just 10 times more effectively. Mining isn’t usually associated with mobile devices. In effect, their users just receive free ETN tokens for leaving their app installed and running on their phones – a proof of elapsed time, if you will. “Mobile mining” is essentially a marketing trick one of the irrelevant altcoins dubbed Electroneum put forward to grow their userbase.
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