[al68]

What do you guys think about this idea? Looks interesting, even if I'm not a pro at BTC mining.
Samsung turned 40 Galaxy S5s into a Bitcoin mining rig
Samsung’s C-Lab, an engineering team that focuses on creative projects, is heading up the venture. Their headlining project at Samsung’s recent developer conference was a 40-stack of Samsung Galaxy S5s turned into a Bitcoin mining rig. Not only were the phones able to mine Bitcoins, they were able to do it more efficiently than a desktop computer. In fact, eight Galaxy S5s can mine more efficiently than a computer with an Intel Core i7 2600.  

More: https://www.androidauthority.com/samsung...ig-810977/

[Drako]

Personally I don't believe this could be efficient enough at the moment. Possibly in the future handheld technology could become powerful enough to handle the heat and other 'stresses' systems face when BTC mining.

[Bish0pQ]

Since this would probably mine with CPU, I don't think it would beat a decent GPU, also this would probably heat up the devices a lot and these phones would probably break soon. I highly doubt you can even get out of costs with this.

[naxx99]

What? A smartphone can mine?
Still haven't heard of it, but It looks promising (kinda)
I'm skeptical about mobile performance

[al68]

of course it can, why not?. But as Bish0pQ said, will mine with CPU...

[Elf]

Don't ever mine BTC expecially with a phone, apparently a $800 phone can pull 20h/s well you can get th same from a cheap build.

50 phones = 1k pc

Dont even try and just ruin a perfectly fine phone.

[mothered]

They shouldn't make this statement If they're comparing It to a 6 year old CPU.

Not only were the phones able to mine Bitcoins, they were able to do it more efficiently than a desktop computer. In fact, eight Galaxy S5s can mine more efficiently than a computer with an Intel Core i7 2600

[Kuem]

of course it can, why not?. But as Bish0pQ said, will mine with CPU...

You just took a part of what he said and left out the rest. The phones will break nothing more to it

[al68]

I wanted to show the idea of reusing the smartphones, not the technical details. It's just a prototype, can be used in other means, not necessary mining. I think we all agree that most of the people change their phones after a year and a half or so, even if they can be easily reused. I think they should be reused in other ways, and this one, even if it's not perfect, it's a start, better than nothing

[mothered]

I wanted to show the idea of reusing the smartphones, not the technical details.

And rightly so.

Take the above comments as constructive criticism.