xmrig-for-android VS storage-node

The screenshot here shows 117H/s, and I guess the Android version hasn’t been as heavily optimized: https://github.com/XMRig-for-Android/xmrig-for-android

I think we‘d need to compare apples to apples, and not use Monero mining as a benchmark for mCaptcha. Also, as I wrote in another comment, the average case (server is not under attack) is 0.02 seconds on a laptop, and probably 0.4s on an Android device if we use xmrig-android as comparison.

P2Pool software has not been ported to Android. It is quite a senseless task, so I don't expect that happens in an overseen future. You have to build and install P2Pool on a PC or VPS. I strongly recommend Ubuntu since all the build instructions can be easily copy-pasted from the P2pool official GitHub page. Then, you just point your XMRig for Android running via termux to your P2pool instance on a PC or VPS.

And for older people like me who don't mind to read instead of watching videos: https://github.com/XMRig-for-Android/xmrig-for-android

I can use my phone to CPU mine with https://github.com/XMRig-for-Android/xmrig-for-android albeit at a very low hashrate. IDK about GPU mining though, seems like that could be more useful. But if you root your android device you can pretty much install anything you would on a linux system, with exceptions.

Also, I don't see why you couldn't just distribute a defi app on android as an APK, including tornado cash. I don't really know if trading on leverage is a critical part of using cryptocurrency, but I don't really see how you would be prevented from doing that on mobile unless your CEX distributes a different desktop app.

Crypto is not heavily censored in the US. I mean maybe, but it depends on what state you live in. Also, you can't legally mix coins as a service like tornado cash or coinjoin server, as that constitutes money laundering.

The Github

CPU Temperature by @garrylachman in https://github.com/XMRig-for-Android/xmrig-for-android/pull/107

Full Changelog: https://github.com/XMRig-for-Android/xmrig-for-android/compare/0.0.35...0.0.36

> Google Cloud, Azure, deploy a server yourself, etc.

My point is that if AWS decides to follow Hetzner, the rest will too. If it was so easy to just deploy a server yourself, then more people would be doing that already. Right now, AWS is the lowest bar cause that's what half the people running this stuff know already [1].

> If your service is illegal

PoS / staking is a grey zone right now... there is a lot of discussion over the legalities.

> There's a big difference between using AWS as dumb compute and using AWS features.

Correct, but even the dumb compute involves setting up VPC's, networking, disk, monitoring, logging... etc... and each provider does it differently. For one staker, no big deal... but for the larger ones... it gets a lot more complicated.

[1] https://github.com/verida/storage-node#lambda-deployment