Cpu Miner Android Today

Let’s be brutally honest. A flagship Android phone (e.g., Samsung S23 Ultra with Snapdragon 8 Gen 2) mining Monero 24/7 produces roughly 1,000–1,500 H/s.

If you mine Verus Coin (VRSC) with the same phone, you might earn 0.01 – 0.05 VRSC per day ($0.001 – $0.005 USD).

Conclusion: You will earn less than $2 per year running your phone 24/7. Cpu Miner Android

We create a class responsible for the actual calculation. In a real-world scenario, this would be native C++ code via JNI for performance. Here, we use a Kotlin Thread performing hashing operations.

MinerThread.kt

package com.example.cpuminer
import android.util.Log
import java.security.MessageDigest
class MinerThread : Thread() 
@Volatile
private var isRunning = false
private var hashCount: Long = 0
private var lastLogTime: Long = System.currentTimeMillis() Let’s be brutally honest
// Callback to report stats
var onStatsUpdate: ((hashRate: Double) -> Unit)? = null
override fun run() 
    isRunning = true
    val digest = MessageDigest.getInstance("SHA-256")
    var data = "initial_block_data".toByteArray()
Log.d("MinerThread", "Mining started...")
while (isRunning) 
        try 
            // 1. Perform a hash operation
            // In a real miner, this would check if hash meets difficulty target
            val hash = digest.digest(data)
// 2. Update data for next iteration (simulate nonce increment)
            // Just XORing the first byte to change data slightly
            data[0] = (data[0] + 1).toByte()
hashCount++
// 3. Calculate Hashrate every second
            val now = System.currentTimeMillis()
            if (now - lastLogTime >= 1000) 
                val hashRate = hashCount.toDouble() / ((now - lastLogTime) / 1000.0)
// Post update to main thread if needed, or handle via Handler
                onStatsUpdate?.invoke(hashRate)
// Reset counters
                hashCount = 0
                lastLogTime = now
// Optional: Sleep briefly to prevent total UI lockup on low-end devices
            // Thread.sleep(1)
catch (e: Exception) 
            e.printStackTrace()
Log.d("MinerThread", "Mining stopped.")
fun stopMining() 
    isRunning = false

You will see apps claiming to mine Bitcoin at 5 TH/s on a phone. These are 100% scams. They are usually:

Rule: If an app says "Bitcoin Cloud Miner" and has a fancy dashboard, delete it immediately. If you mine Verus Coin (VRSC) with the