How Much This Crypto Phone Farm Made in 1 Year

[@Simply_chase]

I have no plans to build one, or have anything really in crypto. Yet I’m here

[@SwanCastleCrypto]

Awesome welcome!

[@vegasrider7287]

same same

[@Wassup990udueuej]

same

[@michaelbraun9999]

Same

[@Holidayssong]

Same

[@NA-sy2fm]

The Current VRSC price is 6.20 making your mining revenue $5,189.958. This project was hugely successful. Nice work man!

[@SwanCastleCrypto]

thanks!

[@saulsilver87]

Smart plugs are a must for phone mining, you can set them to charge every other hour and keep your battery from charging 24/7

[@BorisXgen]

Thanks for the update. I had half of my ao3s bubble up and I'm in the process of changing out the batteries. And nice to see Verus hit ath today. I may add a few more phones.

[@SwanCastleCrypto]

What was the temperature of your farm? I have found keeping them cool is key to prevent bubbling. Love to see the ATH today!

[@BorisXgen]

@SwanCastleCrypto in the garage with the other mining equipment. So it was hotter during the summer, and fans I have for phone rack were probably not enough to keep them cool enough. Got 16 phones now, will get it up to 20.

[@thepinktreeclub]

archive of our our own is goated

[@Harith21AL]

Want to run your phone without battery Use this mod. Buy step down dc converter Cut your battery and take the bms circuit, set the output voltage to 4.2volt and connect to the output of the step down to the bms input, put it back to your phone Now you don't need to worry about bulging battery Search Google for more details on how to use dc step down converter, they're pretty cheap, less than a dollar for pieces

[@dleenes]

Is it possible to take out the battery entirely?

[@davidtaylor6772]

I run several old gaming laptops with what were at the time nice GPU’s. I pull in about $150 every 3 months or so. Not awesome, but it’s just a hobby. It all goes towards my kid’s futures.

[@santelmomusic]

Is it pure btc? Can you teach us how

[@Finn45517]

How much u spend in electricity over 3 months ?

[@Sensei_gojo]

@@Finn45517realistically, I doubt they’re spending more than 150 over the course of 3 months. Thats honestly a lot

[@1080p-Movieshd]

@@Finn45517frr

[@6666912]

How much was electricity

[@maus0292]

If you are worried about fire, you should put them in a metal and fire rated cabinet. You can find some on uline. I would add fire extinguisher balls or fire blankets to fall on the phone if a fire starts.

[@SwanCastleCrypto]

Good idea, but that might be a little overkill ha ha

[@NolanWayne-h9n]

It would kill the wifi signal. Like a faraday cage

[@maualcarazz]

@@NolanWayne-h9nrun an access point inside it

[@mpgroup6421]

a smoke detector would help

[@burb138]

Diminishing safety gain as it adds heat essentially insures bloating, fires, spicy pillow fest

[@jason29821]

If your worried about battery issues why not do the work to get rid of the battery? Its not that hard with something like a cell hasher. Then with a little setup you can use adb or other software to install apps and manage the phones.

[@SwanCastleCrypto]

I will definitely look into that, thanks!

[@resiigned]

Glad to see I wasn't the only one thinking this, would love to see a revised video in the future..

[@internetvide0]

I saw a video about social media farms in Indonesia and they said they took the batteries out

[@chrisgoat6435]

Not every phone and operating system allows that

[@dreadfulman5191]

​@@chrisgoat6435with enough elbow grease, you can always undesign a designed flaw

[@cryptoking24]

I'm looking forward to your next video; keep up the great work!

[@SwanCastleCrypto]

Thanks!

[@bl3ivids]

KZbin recommended me this video a while ago and it was very interesting. it laid in the back of my mind for a while. I've had Android phones just sitting there doing nothing, essentially free, for a while, but 2 days ago I decided to finally do it. The price is climbing steadily, but I can say I now hold *some* Verus. I have a Watt meter arriving to make sure its worth it beforehand, and created a spreadhseet much like you have in this video to track it. After seeing the price climb, I thought back to this video and thought "nice to see he made a quick profit!" Cheers for the vid, and all the best!

[@SwanCastleCrypto]

That’s awesome, cheers!

[@jt92]

I remember the days of making 20 bucks/day with my gamer PC. Those gains are long gone.

[@drealph90]

I don't remember who but there's a guy on KZbin who removed the battery from his phone and create a custom little circuit so the phone could always stay plugged in and still think it had a fully charged battery in it. This would remove all of your worry over lithium battery fires

[@SwanCastleCrypto]

I’ll try to find that, thanks!

[@drealph90]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/bZebhJ-fg6yYeq8si=kcTYnH824nWMWigd​@@SwanCastleCrypto

[@ClosestNearUtopia]

I highly suggest on trying to run those phones batteryless. You can do that, by removing the battery bms from the battery, solder where the batter was connected a steady voltage the pack would realistically putt out, and plug the phones in with their charging port. The only reason you add voltage on the bms battery terminals is to tell the phone via the bms a battery is installed and can actually boot, while in reality, it completely runs from their charging port.

[@SwanCastleCrypto]

I'll have to try that, thanks

[@DPain82]

​@SwanCastleCrypto see I was going to do this year's ago using this idea. With the batteries removed you can also cool the phones better. I designed a rack that would stack the phones so I could keep it in a mini fridge. I was also going to root the phone and turn the processor up. I've even thought about just buying the motherboard and running the boards via screen and mouse.

[@BHSAHFAD]

If verus coin didn't jump 3x its value since last month, your ROI would be 6 years instead of just the two year. Also you are looking at the fact you are mining and keeping it in vera coin, instead of selling it for cash all the time. Had the jump not happened you would have been in the red.

[@doge.inDaBay]

i can smell your room from this comment man, jezuz

[@BHSAHFAD]

@@doge.inDaBay That's rich coming from someone who has videos of high school cheerleaders on their youtube channel...

[@LadyBits2023]

🤣 Savage

[@Sickoloko24]

Mining is not focused on on todays gain it’s a long term investment that’s why ya poor.

[@BHSAHFAD]

@@Sickoloko24 most large scale mining is built on immediate value...

[@mochafaldodannyardiansyah-2478]

if u want to keep phone low temperature u can just let them lay at ceramic floor, im using this method and work so well even without air conditioner

[@SwanCastleCrypto]

interesting thanks

[@bahlzdeep]

Excellent honest breakdown.

[@unAgorist]

imo the right way to calculate roi, if you're into crypto to shortcut the bankin system is to : 1- count the costs in the crypto mined (if you pay 10$ for a phone you calcultae the price from the crypto value in usd at the time of purchase) 2- same for electricity charges every month, count the cost in crypto at the time of payment; that amount of charges you withdraw from the number of coins mined during the month (could produce some minus obviously) 3-sum up all those monthly return for the year 4- divide that by initial investment to get your yearly return on investment & an idea of how long it takes to pay back the phone if you're profitable if you count in usd you are just speculating & results you get don't mean a thing as the market could make appear a losing setup as profitable & the opposite as well

[@Chopper-w50]

WOw yOu MUsT bE RicH fUturE tElLeR . lmao. these people are too stupid to comprehend what you're saying.

[@DavidBaronStevens]

i really love the idea of repurposing old hardware for crypto mining it flies in the face of the previous impression that i had in which it was only possible with the most ridiculously advanced GPU and cooling systems i can totally see myself setting up such a system

[@Krowsis]

Thanks for the video!!

[@skippy284]

Have you tried the orange pi 5's to mine with that is what I use and they get around 8mh/s @9 watts

[@SwanCastleCrypto]

I haven’t, I’ll look into it, thanks

[@hurstharames6855]

Link to the info? I've only seen 6.85Mh/s at 8 watts... I'd like to stay up to date on the best info

[@HelamanGile]

Set up a direct power system make it so the displays turn off Make it's so it's using hardware acceleration within developer options megasaurus running GPU and CPU add passive heat sinks to them and then add some fans that blow through them

[@HelamanGile]

You can buy phones with broken screens total all you need is a display adapter and a portable touch monitor then you can set them up easier

[@paweka9149]

If you have brokem screen (no touch) you cannot accept hardware fingerprint which is needed by adb initial connection.

[@HelamanGile]

@@paweka9149 you could literally just plug in the screen if needed the power savings are worth it

[@Acluduo]

@@paweka9149 then just use phones that have finger print scanner on the back or the side

[@ciklop4206]

>passive heatsinks >fans

[@Twitch_Moderator]

*I don't know why people still chase this dragon. It is like gambling. By the time you made back all your investment costs, your hardware is worn out and run-down. It just makes no sense. If anyone wanted to make decent profit in crypto, they missed the train, AGES ago.*

[@SwanCastleCrypto]

wrong

[@ric2408]

​@@SwanCastleCryptohe's right

[@bushidoxyza]

He is crypto brained bro. Can’t help them anymore.

[@chrisjames7803]

@@SwanCastleCrypto Ye your only a grand down in a year,,lmfao,, bud the bubble burst 10 PLUS yrs ago on this dream..

[@SwanCastleCrypto]

@chrisjames7803 actually I’m in profit now, thanks

[@oleg_eng1]

3:05 i would just look at the voltage what is needed for 50% charge for the phone. In order to charge 100% of a battery the required voltage should be 4.3 volts, but in order to charge no more than 50% 3.4 volts must be on the your charger device. I don't remember exactly but you should understand what I mean, do some tests and you will understand how much is needed (sorry for my eng)

[@survival_man7746]

Interesting but what about the time spent per $ earned? How much time do you work in your farm per year?

[@SwanCastleCrypto]

Setup time was the vast majority of my time spent, which was probably 2 full days. It was fun though

[@AlteredCarbons]

cool. ill never do it, but seeing the break down was cool

[@valeriocafiero]

Your comparisons between different cryptocurrencies were really helpful.

[@Chopper-w50]

if you took your initial $2500 and bought verus coin at .07 cents instead of wasting money on these phones you would have gotten roughly 35k coins.......so even if you get your $2500 back you still missed out on $50k+ lmao

[@SwanCastleCrypto]

One of the great benefits of hindsight

[@Chopper-w50]

@@SwanCastleCrypto you can just say you didnt do the math and jumped in blindly but i wouldnt really call it a hindsight issue. pretty ez maths." im gonna spend 2k on these machines which could have bought x amount of coins today. how many coins would this 2k of machines make me per day? is it plausible im going to earn these coins back before the next bull run?" yes or no. easy pz no hindsight or future telling needed.

[@peterice11111]

​@@Chopper-w50you can do math on hindsight? Amazing

[@WiseWingedLion]

​@@Chopper-w50nope it's entirely hindsight. If the coins were not successful then he's still actually have an asset that retains its value, the phones.

[@chrismay2298]

Plus he's acting like it's a win... Very odd behaviour once the sunk time fallacy takes over.

[@Joel_v4]

New ways of making money love it!

[@RickyJw]

Whats the ming software are you using? If anyone has any recommendations let me know. Thanks

[@Juhsga]

Have you looked into having a timer to have the power for the phones turn off for like 8 hrs a day to let the phones use the batteries and this will help prevent battery sweel?

[@SwanCastleCrypto]

I did try that for a little bit, but had a lot of issues with phones shutting down on me. It is a good option if I can get the timing right.

[@kc_toxic5185]

240volts at 1.6 amps doesnt really add up to 190 watts so i reckon your electric bills should be a bit higher. 240x1.6 ~ 400watts which would make a bit more sense to actually give proper power to all the phones. So i reckon the counter inst really accurate atm ?

[@ILoveTinfoilHats]

Yeah probably not accounting for half the circuitry

[@philipvandoren8435]

Where can I find that video of the helicopter bowling around the supplies? I am at Ft Liberty and I track aircraft. I have seen that same Heli doing recon here and it was a private ID operating for the military.

[@theZ3r0CooL]

Just remove the batteries and run them plugged in with a backup on the surge protector with their chargers. And offload some of the power use with solar maybe use a liquid cooling loop with heatsink stuck to the back of the phones so you can use less fans to cool more phones

[@SwanCastleCrypto]

i'll look into doing that, thanks!

[@WaffleCake-q7d]

My Samsung has a Battery Protection setting which only charges to a max of 80%. Maybe worth trying and keeping the pressure off the battery at 100% all the time?

[@rickiv7133]

Crazy timing on this video!!! I bet your numbers are quite different today :O You're break even prediction is spot on for the real price!!!!

[@SwanCastleCrypto]

haha it was!

[@dotdoot8558]

clean video

[@jacksonhicks9781]

what you can do for that battery bubbling is since you are keeping them plugged in is see if you can remove the battery and while plugged it turn it on. This will make it so you don't have any issues with batterys since there wont be one.

[@ZachOKelley]

What was the new software you switched to?

[@context4719]

damn the results were underwhelming asf :(

[@SwanCastleCrypto]

yea unfortunately phone farming isn't a huge money maker, but VRSC is up over 100% since I made this video lol

[@schwuppdiewupp7]

I expected way less actually, was suprised when he showed his net profit

[@GuruRangerAlpha9er]

Can't you run the phones at only 85% battery capacity? I know I do that with my Samsung tablet.

[@trainerchappo1233]

Just take the batter out, runs fine when plugged in without it

[@chaoswolf9452]

Seeing this makes me wonder how well this would run on the Ampere Altra platform. I wish I had one lol.

[@Errors_unknown]

How do you install crypto tap on mobile iOS and not the app the actual mining part?????

[@PotPlease]

just checked the price congrats on the play man hope its still working well for you

[@SwanCastleCrypto]

Thanks, it’s chugging along

[@axielive]

Watching after VRSC broke its all time high .. Dayum !!!

[@Ingallsgarage]

Another great video.

[@SwanCastleCrypto]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@lcke8380]

why not running the phones without battery?

[@Bellphorion]

Would newer phones mine at a higher hash rate? My building gives me free power...hrmmm.

[@BoredPCGuy]

I'd say the boost from rate cuts did well for this project, huh?! 😆 👏👏

[@SwanCastleCrypto]

No complaints here 😂

[@dragonsb2014]

Have you made a video of how to duel mine Arr and the new Verus coin method?

[@aidenkim6629]

3:42 I think you forgot to add that fire extinguisher thing to your costs

[@SwanCastleCrypto]

Oops yea you’re right

[@itoldyou7887]

Where I can find this mining software pleas?

[@iananderson8392]

The bms should bypass the battery when plugged in just depends on the quality of the phone

[@progaming3662]

Do you know what to mine now for a heavy power consumption i have free electricity from solar

[@progaming3662]

I mean what to use to improve the hashrage. Mining of verus

[@OrangePharm]

Love the video. Question about taxes. Do you have to have an LLC to write the miners off on taxes?

[@SwanCastleCrypto]

I have an LLC for my KZbin channel, but not for my miners. You don’t need an LLC to write miners off for taxes

[@andrewjones198]

I mine verus on cpu. It's a little less efficient, but the equipment can be sold later, plus way more reliable and safer. More options to mine also

[@SwanCastleCrypto]

thanks I'll look into that

[@andrewjones198]

@SwanCastleCrypto the efficiency of those phones though. 4x less watts anyways.... so not bad at all!

[@zombiator4hire]

Where to dual mine ARRR?

[@SwanCastleCrypto]

It was automatic for me, I mine using Luckpool

[@xgamer8237]

Which new software are you currently using?

[@SwanCastleCrypto]

Check out retro Mike tech video I linked in the description. It has a link to the software I’m using.

[@Element_115_]

It's awesome that you have fire suppression.... however, thoes will not put out a lithium ion battery fire.... suggestion a fire blanket that can be easily deployed over the top to try to suffocate the fire & or a foam spray to suffocate the fire from oxygen that fuels the fire. Now the lithium that are in these batteries are normally lithium salt & not the pure form of lithium metal. The lithium salt is water soluble, hence why fire fighters use water to fight lithium battery fires. The powder fire extinguishers have no effect on putting out lithium battery fires, which is what you have in those exploding fire suppression balls. Do what you will just figured I would throw my bit of knowledge at ya.

[@SwanCastleCrypto]

thank you, that is very helpful!

[@footstoolofgodflatearth2933]

what's the new software you changed to mine verus coin?

[@SwanCastleCrypto]

I"m using this script: github.com/TheRetroMike/VerusCliMining Check out Retro Mike Tech's video I have listed in the description if you want to learn how to install it. It's a very good tutorial.

[@ModestCube100]

You can take out the battery and keep the charger attached and it’ll stay on

[@SwanCastleCrypto]

I will try that

[@writtenplague]

Could you get some more revenue by having your set up act as a click farm also? Or would that take too much of the cpu utilization?

[@SwanCastleCrypto]

Interesting, I haven’t looked into that

[@footstoolofgodflatearth2933]

Can you set this up for Solana?

[@Amycryptomining]

Thanks bro you are real infulencer. The vedio helpful.

[@teeslunk]

I liked the video 👍

[@teeslunk]

And I liked my own comment. 😂🤙🖖🤘👌🤟👊🫶✌️👍👋✋🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧

[@SwanCastleCrypto]

🤣

[@SiddharthSharma-v4q]

Hey ! swan im watching your videos from a while now and started mining after seeing your videos. i have started mining VERUS coin, but while mining it always got stuck at 563/563 or nearmby numbers it never goes above that , im new to this i dont know why it always got stuck. Please HELP me out. what is the reason why it got stuck ??

[@ТимофейЧерников-щ2х]

Why not use a more powerful chip(without a phone attached)?

[@natking1u1z99]

I'm a tech by trade and tankerer by nature, this looks like a good project even if I don't make any coins.

[@AICryptoAcademy-100]

Have you tried solar panels?

[@SwanCastleCrypto]

I haven't

[@deepdash_]

What software do you use ?

[@james10739]

Ya for the battery it woube nice if all had a way to limit the charge voltage or at least precedent my Samsung s22 lets me stop it at 80% you might look at the battery settings and see if you have an option

[@olagarto1917]

Actualy a 3 years return time is very good , if you compare it with stocks like mcdonalds os the bit tech one that avarege on 10% per year, the farm is closer to 30%~ ... BUT with way less liquidity...

[@SwanCastleCrypto]

Yea I think most in the crypto space have a distorted view of good ROI’s due to the constant boom and bust of many crypto mining projects and the crypto 4 year market cycle. My farm is small potato’s so liquidity shouldn’t be much of an issue for me when I decide to sell

[@olagarto1917]

@SwanCastleCrypto i ment liquidating the phone , it wold be a bit of a head ache but yep... these results are kinda good, Are there any progections for rentability with increase in hashing dificulty? Wold it have a bit more eficiency with net over the cable rather them Wi-Fi?

[@kevinkev1530]

Great info

[@AmericanDaders]

Do iPhones work?

[@Anthony-uz5tj]

mirror the cracked phones or use a cable to connect to a display could be helpful and save $

[@Xjag]

Verus to the moon 🚀

[@SwanCastleCrypto]

to the moon 🚀

[@hendra_joe_]

How bout using phone farm for view bot, bot like or social media bot? Or even using apps like earnapp (getting money in exchange data usage by the apps)

[@SwanCastleCrypto]

not interested in turning them into bots,

[@FelixReeeeeeee-j1k]

Can you help a noob out. I have free electricity and two phones to spare. How do I get started???

[@cbrogold4603]

It’s always hindsight with these things, the important thing is you made profit.

[@SwanCastleCrypto]

it really is!

[@michaelanderson3096]

Crypto currency = Information storage & decentralized banking.

[@AxieLover-f4e]

Damn the token is like 2xed now. So you should be at break even now right?

[@SwanCastleCrypto]

Yep!

[@gabakusa]

what software do you use in those phone to mine?

[@SwanCastleCrypto]

check out retromiketech's video I linked in the description. it has a link to the software and a tutorial on how to install it

[@merlone1]

Do the phones ever crash ? As for some phones I have on versus I have to restart the miner app seldomly

[@SwanCastleCrypto]

Very rarely

[@CORPOR-iThomasKorb]

That profit looking nice now in this bull run

[@SwanCastleCrypto]

it does!

[@TheOutdoorExp]

The amount of people on here expecting huge results and being disappointed is hilarious. What do you expect its a phone farm lmao, nice video tho!

[@SwanCastleCrypto]

haha very true, thanks!

[@daruthebeast]

if he had 500 phones he would've made 15k. Get a very cheap office somewhere and put a few thousands phones and you earn your livelihood like that.

[@miningspec]

Verus is the way!!

[@TylerWhiting]

Verus had a pretty nice run up recently check your balance's $$$

[@handlesaresuperghey]

I used to be an advocate for crypto, but after the graphics card scandals during and after covid made me hate anyone who mines for coin.

[@DamienBoath]

I wish us aussies had that cost of power. I have solar, but I still am charged 55 cents per kilowatt during peak times and 27 cents offpeak. Literally daylight robbery

[@gregoryspeers3992]

Nice phone farm and your earlier videos were an inspiration to try phone farming myself. Currently. I am running 20 Moto G power mostly with some Samsung, all 2-3 years with Android 11 or better. I find the Moto G works well and are dirt cheap if you buy broken screen models. Be careful when ordering them to make sure they are not password locked. I mine Acurast with either main app or the lite version as well as Nodle, Network 3 and Uprock. 5 are running 3 at the same time. None are left plugged in after being recharged, I'm semi retired so I am home a lot and check them often and let them run off battery. This way none get hot when not charging. My average price was $47 CAD, but that involved weeks of searching and carefully buying. So far all phones are working well. Keep the great videos coming!

[@SwanCastleCrypto]

I had a phone that i ordered from eBay that was carrier locked, but fortunately i was able to return it. Nice setup you built! I'll have to try some of those other apps on my phones too.

[@matchc0635]

Phones provide a pretty cool all-in-one package compared to SBCs but I see no other advantages compared to a modern SBC rocking chips that rival S845 or more, at least you can dunk on them silly cell provider by scooping up cheap prepaid phones

[@howtoblitz287]

You risk your house for 0,04 cent per day? Great dude!

[@StackableGoldMC]

Congrats on passing break-even.

[@SwanCastleCrypto]

Thank you!

[@lolPaperclip]

Nice brother! Wait till you get to 162 phones.

[@lolPaperclip]

but the A03s sucks.

[@SwanCastleCrypto]

are you at 162 phones now?! What phones are you using?

[@lolPaperclip]

@SwanCastleCrypto anything I could get my hands on really, but I started off with CAT S48cs, then moved onto Dream 5gs, and now Orbic Joy's and Q10s

[@rtz549]

Put the phones in a fridge or ac room. If they are hot they throttle down the cpu.

[@Dezz101]

This popped up on my suggested. Didnt know Christian Eriksen did crypto. Nice!

[@EmerioOetting]

You can remove the battery screen of the mobile phone and only keep the motherboard integrated into the chassis. We have this solution

[@luckorski1181]

damn so if you wouldve invested $100 on veruscoin when it first dropped, you'd be at $2312 today?

[@earlyplays8810]

Built several ethereum miners with 6x gtx 1060ti's back in 2018. I realized very quickly, I was at the end of the general public being priced out. I made my money back on a 10k investment in like 9 months and figured out that timeframe was only going to get worse as we moved forward with adoption. Unless you got like free power or cooling with a very northern climate it isn't worth your time nor effort to try and mine just hold coins. Look at all this work and investment put in to be seeing a net of 1200 usd and needing 2 years lols. And don't forget that's 2 years to recoup ASSUMING that asset your mining doesn't fall apart. That isn't a fixed timeframe to get your money back. All that being said quality video that was very well put together, but don't do that.. Mining is like half a decade late to the party, which in crypto terms is like half a century.

[@talelbenmansour]

and here you go, break even already

[@taurihaidma359]

0.165$ a kw is so crazy cheap. wth. in Estonia 1KW is like 0.60€, that is 0,65$... Crazy how cheap over there.

[@SwanCastleCrypto]

Wow

[@jakob6399]

Oleneb kas börsihind või fikseeritud hind, börsiga samas keset ööd vahest tasuta.

[@H2PROz]

I was looking to do this but I would be afraid of one of the batteries going bad and then my house would be on fire.

[@SwanCastleCrypto]

Yea that is the big risk

[@stacy532]

I still have some running swollen. For years. The TCL phones are mini bombs. I replace batteries too on some. Super easy they sell kits on Amazon. With all tools needed with batter for 15 bucks. Or less

[@trainerchappo1233]

Just take the battery out, they run without it when plugged in

[@cheskoxd]

Or you can run them with a smart plug and an extension, make the plug turn off at 12 and back on at 8 so it stays 8hra unplugged, ( you can change the time depending on the phone)