<p>If you're looking to mine on your phone, it's literally useless. The hashing power on these devices is so low that you'd probably need a very large amount of phones (around the thousands) to reach the hashing power of a single ASIC machine.</p>

<p>Also, storage is an issue because a Bitcoin node needs all of the blockchain data (around 17gb as of today), so you'd need a high-end phone that has a large amount of disk space.</p>

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Luca Matteis
<p>For example, instead of using my laptop to run bitcoind...how can I run bitcoind on a smartphone to create a light bitcoin wallet?</p>

<p>I understand hashing may drain battery, but is this possible? If so how?</p>

<p>I read somewhere a client is considered "light" if it doesn't download the whole blockchain, but just communicates by sending headers.</p>

<p>Thanks.</p>

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There are no mobile apps that do hashing (i.e. bitcoin mining); this would be absurdly inefficient.  But there is no technical obstruction to writing such an app if you really wanted to.
Nate Eldredge
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How to Create a Light Wallet and Light Bitcoin Node, and run it on Mobile?
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# How to Create a Light Wallet and Light Bitcoin Node, and run it on Mobile?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2014-05-16)

For example, instead of using my laptop to run bitcoind...how can I run bitcoind on a smartphone to create a light bitcoin wallet?

I understand hashing may drain battery, but is this possible? If so how?

I read somewhere a client is considered "light" if it doesn't download the whole blockchain, but just communicates by sending headers.

Thanks.

**Tags:** wallet, bitcoind, mobile

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: There are no mobile apps that do hashing (i.e. bitcoin mining); this would be absurdly inefficient.  But there is no technical obstruction to writing such an app if you really wanted to.  

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### Answer by username_2 on 2014-05-16. Score: 0

If you're looking to mine on your phone, it's literally useless. The hashing power on these devices is so low that you'd probably need a very large amount of phones (around the thousands) to reach the hashing power of a single ASIC machine.

Also, storage is an issue because a Bitcoin node needs all of the blockchain data (around 17gb as of today), so you'd need a high-end phone that has a large amount of disk space.


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