My Verus Phone Farm...

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[@brianfritz575]

As an engineer who has spent 30 years designing power systems for portable devices, with emphasis on batteries and battery safety circuitry, I can say your comment regarding Li-Polymer vs Li-Ion, is just not true. The batteries swell, or as you said "puff up", when the electrolyte decomposes. This typically occurs as the batteries age and the anode to cathode ratios have changed, resulting in chemical system changes that overvoltage the electrolyte. Electrolyte decomposition occurs in all Li carbon based batteries, of which both Polymer and non-polymerized cells are carbon based anode. Your best bet for getting long cycle life from the cells is to charge them to only 80% and discharge to only about 15%. Most damage occurs as the battery is taken to the lower or higher voltages, so keeping it outside those extremes will result in longer life.

[@trillioncap]

I think your focus on efficiency is such a unique advantage in your process, certainly has served you well and will continue to do so

[@cc-.-]

FYI, the Tr 3970x is getting 82mhs @ 226w on vrsc. The lucky boy found a deal for an used tr 3970x + mobo for U$740. BTW, your vrsc phone farm is awesome 🎉

[@alvydasjokubauskas2587]

You forgot to mention that if you used solar energy, you would not need those inverters as much thus saving 10%-20% of conversion from AC-DC. Also this would become a very portable setup to deploy outside when sun is shinning, else batteries are included in the phone so it makes it even more portable. If possible to turn of the screen, you would save even more energy. And if you would connect to internet trough Bluetooth, phones would save even more energy compared to WIFI, I don't think there would be any latency. USB wires would save the most, you could try to connect it even to PC and just connect trough USB to internet. Instead of Buying invertors, just use PC: it would provide power and internet. But it won't be a portable setup. *Bonus: IT IS VERY SCALABLE. if you would own a roof Therese or a land, you can deploy lots of portable solar panels with these phones outside. Energy cost would be 0, but it will be dependent on sun. But if you like to do the effort, you could bring them inside home later - undeploy them. It might sound tedious, but if you have like 100 solar panels that bring you 1 dollar each per day, than I would not complain at all. It would become like a beekeeping hobby.

[@user-yf4tz1hu1r]

30 долларов в месяц

[@beefwantko7269]

lol... your talking about 1200 dollars just in phones.. and the hashrate is going up pretty quickly for a coin that is hardly transferable, with little use cases... If you think the price is going to spike.. buy 1200 dollars of verus, and wait for the bull market for the coin to appreciate. and as far as buying 100 sollar panels.. your better off just selling the power you make off that massive investment to aquire the 100 solar panels back to the grid.. thats assuming that you have the land or the space to deploy 100 solar panels... and coming from a solar farm/house your looking into the 10-20k range to set up a pannel set up like that not including inverters, battery banks charge controlers and what not.. just to power your phones.... people do it for bitcoin mining sure.. because they are 200k into it with land and when mining drops below profitablility they sell the power back to grid. plus the cost of installation and everything... lol dont set up a solar farm to farm something less valuable then solar itself.. you dont see big companies buying up acres of land to set up solar.. just to power a niche coin that could go knowwhere.

[@TrevorDuke]

That’s how I mine everything I used to own a solar company that I sold last year so I was able to set myself up at cost and mine with free energy! I love the sun 🌞 and also Verus has the possibility to 100x in this next bull run…. I would say that at minimum 10x.

[@kennethwelch9203]

It's been found that buying almost any ASIC like a bitmain 19s pro makes you more than the power company will pay you. There is a guy I know that is off grid at his house and was selling his left over power back to the grid at something like 5 cents a kw/h. He found a used L3 and started merge mining and makes over 20 times for the extra power by turning the miner on for only 3 hours a day

[@kennethwelch9203]

I can see either a phone farm, tablet farm or smartest way just buy the evergreen miners for a mobile van life farm using a roof covered in solar panels with probably 4 deep cycle batteries

[@blackmennewstyle]

Actually buying the phone unlocked could be a good idea, you could easily root the phone and use a real "smart charging" app which will only charge your battery if it goes below a specific threashold and then stop charging and let it discharge when it goes over a specific threshold. This will extend your battery lifespan significantly :)

[@RandomNick422]

Yes could it could be by using battery limiter app when the device is rooted

[@jacksfm6313]

or you could ditch the battery all together and trick the phone thinking it has battery

[@GozMeu]

Just get a battery with solar panel and put them on the battery 🤭 free power

[@driftaway2806]

How?

[@GozMeu]

@@driftaway2806 aliexpress solarpanels to chargecontroller to a 200ah battery or bigger store your solarpanels there and take power from the battery

[@solveit1304]

Battery is kinda hazard in this farm. Hacking connector or straight cable soldering for power should be great - less power loss. Battery usually have 3 pins. VCC, NTC and GND. You can trick phone to think that battery temperature is fine by adding 10k resistor between GND and NTC. Just like that you save power by cutting of middleman (battery). Also, in every phone, screen is most power hungry. Dim them as low as you can or disconnect screen by opening it after everything is set up. Add VNC or other to be able to remote access your phones without screen. I know it's risky but your cost will go down, keeping same performance. If you want to know more, leave comment with some contact info.

[@GeekOfAllTrades]

Ok, now I gotta find all those old phones we upgraded from over the years!!

[@NewEnglandCrypto]

Slacker... Get it done!

[@motsuwu]

Good Luck 😆

[@trillioncap]

That is such a clean setup man,

[@Alvyrre]

i have several cheap chinese phones with G99 chips, getting 4.9mh/s each. sd8+gen1 gets 6.6mh/s (bypass charging at 7w), sd870 at 5.2mh/s while a dimensity 8100 gets 5.4mh/s (3.8w).

[@tylernope2752]

"I don't mine for profitability" is a layman's term for 'I wasted my money' lol.

[@nedlyest]

I was thinking the same thing when he said that.

[@AndrewSutherland-ub3hd]

nah, I am gonna stick to Bitcoin cloud mining that I know where i make $30,000 monthly , than buy 100 phones for mining hell nah

[@MariaTerradas]

could you please tell me what cloud mining service is making you $30k monthly?

[@MariaTerradas]

wow, just went through their platform and it was really shocking to me that I made a mistake buying physical rigs.

[@MariaTerradas]

when I can just mine bitcoins easily and earn easily without wasting my time and money.

[@ThomasMooney-mw2eg]

whats the best mining plan to use with them ?

[@AndrewSutherland-ub3hd]

use the custom plan

[@sNEAKYnIGHTmUPPET]

just so I understand this math, you need 1200 days to break even? How can you recomend this?

[@ewor99]

haven't seen this before, looks cool bro

[@domg6614]

Impressive set up, I should try with my old s9 and s10

[@NewEnglandCrypto]

S8 and S9 do very well. Samsung's last the best. The newer google phones have been dieing on me.

[@domg6614]

@@NewEnglandCrypto Just tried my S9 and only getting 0.95 mhs on 7 cpu, no idea why it is so low, any taught ? EDIT, look like I got it, bad wifi connection hahaha

[@NewEnglandCrypto]

@Dom G also try different pools. Hashrate can vary widely depending on the pools set difficulty

[@CryptoKiller]

Very interesting one, including the analysis on the hashrate!

[@Halfshellgaming1]

Love the video man, it inspired me to start mining some verus myself 😀

[@berlinfamof4]

I'm mining Verus coins right now as well. I'm using Google Pixel 2xl cell phones plus a few others. I have a couple of LG G4's as well. Plus, 1 Nord 200 and a OnePlus. My pixels are running around 4 megahashes a peice. My Lg's around 2 megahashes a peice. My Nord 200 and OnePlus is around 4 megahashes a peice. I'm gonna try the Samsung Galaxy S9 here in a couple of days. If I'm satisfied with the S9. That will be my phone of choice. My goal is to have around 300 phones before end of summer.

[@VictorVels]

What do you recommend as a phone?

[@FunnyAnimalsCrew]

So about 3.5 years to break even right? Dont sound to good right now

[@magiclucky5152]

Crap. I don't need another rabbit hole. How do I forget I saw this?

[@NewEnglandCrypto]

You can't!! 😄 🤣 love my phone farm

[@lamine333]

How much you make a day?? And how much hashrat you have ??

[@slothsquatch5023]

Thanks for the rundown on your phone pharm. I haven't used gsmarena in years.

[@alexfleener]

Looks awesome 😎

[@Borneo1972]

What cellphone is good for mining, sir? Give me the information, sir. Thank you for replying to my comment.🙏

[@happyball5503]

If the batteries are removable, can you run them on straight power?that should help air out the processors

[@alenpasnikov]

EU now accepted a law that requires all phones from 2027 to have removable batteries. Most phones don't have removable batteries currently though.

[@mcw701]

So, If you buy one phone for $45.00 USD how long would it take to pay it off Mining Verus Coin? 20 years or more right? HOW long would it take you with one phone to make $45.00 back?

[@lighttheoryllc4337]

Phbeeh LOL that voice 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅

[@maikon672]

How guide mining verus on android?

[@NewEnglandCrypto]

Mike made me do the recent update video on my channel lol

[@mbarneskar]

​@@NewEnglandCryptoCan you Link, Please?

[@NewEnglandCrypto]

@@mbarneskar kzbin.info/www/bejne/p3S7nqSprLd-qqs

[@420Cris]

Why do you use new low end phones instead of used flagships? Yeah they're only like $50 each but something like an S10/S10e is only about $100 used and is atleast 3x faster with similar efficiency, you could even get ones with cracked screens or defects for probably around $50 as well. There's plenty with the dead OLED pixels that almost no one wants, this would be a perfect 2nd life for them.

[@RetroMikeTech]

Just a personal preference. I always encourage others to use cracked screens or otherwise damaged phones for mining. I'm just super particular with my setup and wanted a very specific battery chemistry that's in the A03S and A04

[@gustavomontanomorales5754]

Question. How can I change my verus mined profit to bitcoin or another crypto?

[@RetroMikeTech]

TradeOgre and SafeTrade both have Verus and allow you to exchange for other cryptos including BTC

[@LowBuckMining]

Looks good man 🤘

[@RedPandaMining]

All in phone mining… *I just bought 1000 iphones.*

[@RetroMikeTech]

better than your standard consumer hardware from newegg...It's basically an ASIC...

[@penguin.tempur]

How much cpu thread you user sir?

[@TheBitcoinMiner]

Sweet set up man looking good!

[@andymeenanvideos]

What's the point???... I don't get it!

[@mrhawthorne863]

Long term thinking..

[@user-bh9yk2wv4w]

Could you please do a how to video?

[@NewEnglandCrypto]

He asked me to link mine for the community to see. I have a few. kzbin.info/www/bejne/jKrQaWN5h7qXabM Let us know if you have any other questions.

[@TycenYT]

How u feeling that coins are up?

[@lostsilvercoin6989]

now they are way down.

[@malachiHburton]

So at max he's getting 2 coins a day. 730 coins max a year and spent $1200 on phones for the setup. Verus peaked about the time he made this video at $0.76 a coin. If he used the $1200 to buy coins instead he could get 1578 coins. As of todays coin prices at $0.39 you could buy 3076 coins. My point here is it would take him a little more than two years of nonstop mining to obtain coins at $0.79 or if at $0.39 4.2 years. This isnt figuring in downtime or electricity costs, and mining difficulty over time. Seems like it would smarter to buy than mine

[@TrevorDuke]

You aren’t wrong about being smarter to buy and HODL but I think a lot of people mine because they enjoy it and during this next bull run if Verus 100x then it’s all been worth it and it definitely has the potential to do exactly that after the bitcoin halving. Just my opinion but definitely be buying as of now it’s up to about a dollar

[@jw200]

and how much you earned? 1$ ?

[@minpohchoo2484]

hello, i want to know what kind of mine you mine? then will the software be difficult to download?

[@KHLL02]

So you spent 1.2k on phones and earning approx $1 a day, so over 3 years just to make your money back.

[@stevenupton7825]

lol i can t get 1 phone mining properly , it went to 3 .75 , turned the screen on to check it and somehow managed to make it o.oo every 30 secs should i uninstall and start again?

[@EndlessRoutes]

love the setup very nice and organized whats the daily you are earning vrsc ?

[@RetroMikeTech]

Thanks. I get about 2.5 VRSC/day in rewards across all devices. Each devices averages just over 0.1 VRSC/day.

[@roy-e1k]

What is the purpose of this brother, it looks very interesting, but speaking of money, I think you make almost 1 dls a day, but if we are going to calculate 24 teams for 48 dls it would be 1,152 dls, you would be recovering that investment in just over 3 years. Without putting the electric light bill. Could you give me a context of what your end is with this. I await your response, and excuse me but curiosity kills me.@@RetroMikeTech

[@ftw2011fyi]

Hey Mike! Any other option for phones that you recommend? Like it is worth it to run an $100 phone for double the performance type of thing?

[@RetroMikeTech]

This is the best phone that I have found for efficiency. Brand new high end samsung galaxy's get better hashrate, but they are also very expensive. You can also use tablets like the Amazon Fire series. They take up more room, but have more hashrate in the 10" model

[@ronwatkins5775]

Dumb question. Do you need separate phone plans for each phone or how does that work? Looks like each phone earns about 3.8 cents/day and with a price of $50, that is an ROI of about 1300 days or 3.5 years, is my math correct? Do you have a link to the new england video?

[@RetroMikeTech]

You can set them up on Wi-Fi. No ip restrictions here.

[@ronwatkins5775]

@@RetroMikeTech Cool, didn't think of that. Do you have a link to the video showing how to set this up? I might like to give it a try. I currently have several CPU rigs built from Rabid videos, and like this method you describe, but would like to see details on exactly how to do it.

[@nicholashpitts]

So removing the batteries did not work for this model i take it?

[@171widetrack]

How do you monitor all of them from one device? I wish there was more literature or step by step instructions how to use this like a professional

[@RetroMikeTech]

Check my latest video. It's a tutorial setup on how configure the devices for remote management

[@huntmining]

its pretty cool. Sad thing is all these phones combine are doing what 0.4130 USD profit per day Combined... Curious how many years is ROI?

[@katiekumcgil]

wow a phone farm,how many phones do you raise each,is there any phone cross breading.

[@garystinten9339]

Im curious to know what you would get on the phones if you ran the phones at the rated wattages of the threadripper.. i mean if it's a few bucks a day and your hashrate is higher still..

[@paulelhardcore]

Do you have video from start to finish on how to setup ?

[@HeroBach-jm5gn]

Hi I just got my 1st Samsung a03s phone to mine but when I hit the exit it stop mining even I said ok so my question do you just let your mining on 24/7?

[@_HashForce]

it looks cool as heck lol love the K’nex rack! What state do you live in Mike?

[@RetroMikeTech]

The K'Nex are the star of the show 😅. I'm in Tennessee.

[@_HashForce]

They are haha. Well i knew you were close with that accent. Im in AR

[@yobatube3718]

Красавчик. Verus top!

[@jimw4346]

@RetroMikeTech, I ordered one of the Tracfone Samsung Galaxy A03s phones from Amazon but it looks like the battery chemistry is Li-Ion not Li-Po. Am I missing something?

[@rkg456]

do you have a guide on how to use these prepaid phones like you do without having to activate them on the Tracfone network and not have to reset them all the time? Example - Boost phones will only let you use them for 24 -48 hours without having to associate them with an account or you have to reset to factory specs and setup again.

[@RetroMikeTech]

Tracfone and Verizon don't have any such restrictions. I just walked through the normal phone setup and never inserted a sim card or activated the device. Just walk through the setup screens, connect to wifi, add my google account, and then install the apps from the google play store.

[@Dan_Rugs]

So cool! 🖤🖤

[@aliiqrar-1.34M-subscribers]

Hiw much is setup cost? How much is monthly operating cost? How much is profit? How to partnership with u?

[@ftw2011fyi]

That is really cool dude!

[@tigerscott2966]

Big tech is pushing ChatGT and Quantum computers... Security will be a bigger concern in the future... Maybe this can help us out since there's a glut of smartphones around now...

[@Jolmes4u]

Can you provide more information about merge mining in verus?

[@RoadsideGarage]

I can't get past the 3 word verification even though it is spelled right.

[@fullyelectric]

Very nice setup! I got allot of the prepay phones I may try to put them to work .. awesome 👏 setup tho..

[@fullyelectric]

Just doing the math because you have a amazing electric rate you don’t need to worry too much about efficiency, for example running 3 .. 3900x is only 210w at your electric rate that’s only 25c per day, and that’s over 95Mh, so you’ll spend a little more in electric but you’ll gain over 35% more profits, still truly awesome you find a very efficient way to mine! How well does the phone do on other algo?

[@RetroMikeTech]

@@fullyelectric I'm also running 7 5950X's on Verus that do very well. Check out New England Crypto's videos. I think he tested mobile with Monero. In theory, any arm-based miner should work. I may have to test a bunch of algo's

[@fullyelectric]

@@RetroMikeTech I do like NEC but I also like the details easy flow you make your videos, so if you could make your version of testing different algo I know you’ll have a great spin to it and I can’t wait to watch it! Keep up with the awesome 👏 content!

[@jokerminer1]

Sweat setup!!!

[@NetworkBits]

Well done

[@NewEnglandCrypto]

This is your kind of mining. Almost no power consumption 🎉🎉

[@JohnSmithZen]

I thought all phones use Li-po batteries...?

[@JamDecks]

I love his shelf

[@RetroMikeTech]

Thanks. I've made some adjustments. Should have an updated video soon.

[@silvestreetc3928]

careful low end A03s is susceptible to battery bloat

[@OvalboreTech]

liked for nothing more than k'nex nah thats not true, phone mining is kinda wild.

[@RetroMikeTech]

Beating the YT algo with K'Nex

[@OvalboreTech]

@@RetroMikeTech this is the way

[@Dan_Rugs]

Ohhh herrooo oval bae!!!

[@OvalboreTech]

@@Dan_Rugs good morning, my rug pull friend

[@johnparrish9215]

BRILLIANT !!!!!!!!!

[@lamller12354]

to get even you will need 1200 days of farming? Thats to much time no?

[@amy_livescrypto]

I learn SO MUCH for you -it's insane 🧡🧡🧡

[@RetroMikeTech]

awww...you're amazing!!!

[@alienandroid943]

fun Like the setup its cool would like to investigate solar with setups like this have fun

[@wut3358]

Will the phones still work plugged up with the batteries removed?

[@driftaway2806]

Hey I have a question that is really important to me. I'm trying to decide if I should do this but I'm confused about your income. Did you day that each phone generates a dollar ten per day? Or is that for the whole rig?

[@RetroMikeTech]

For the whole setup. WhatToMine has a VRSC calculator you can plugin the hashrate to see currently profitability. This video was done over a year ago

[@tannerspurlin1194]

over 3 years to break even assuming everything goes according to plan.

[@squigglesmcjr199]

1m/h per watt!!! Legit

[@tigerscott2966]

Really cool... A phone farm...

[@cryptokrag7922]

Can I do this with old Moto RZR's or Palm Pilots?

[@amplifiergamingBTC]

is your phone farm profitable?

[@RetroMikeTech]

Yes, watch til the end. I go over the past 24 hr profits.

[@csills6776]

With the A03, did you root and install a 64bit rom? If so, do you have a link to that thread?

[@RetroMikeTech]

No, I did not. I used the native OS and just installed the app from the google play store.

[@BaconEggsAndHash]

wow... I'll have to look into that.

[@RiggerBrew]

The miner is not in the app store when I went to look for it 7/12/2023

[@IceyCoinMining]

So can any samsung mine? I have a Note10 as well as a note 20 wicked jump they did.

[@bertrandfernandes6719]

Hi why does my phone says software incompitable

[@PedroNarciso18]

hello I'm from Brazil I really liked your rig what would be your gross profit per month?

[@RetroMikeTech]

around 45 VRSC/month are my earnings

[@KarimAkors]

Android boxes would be another atempt and way cheaper

[@tradito]

0:06 BPaas? LOL

[@CosmoKhapheshia]

This got my attention😊

[@OKTAYAlizadeh]

lol do you know what roi is? with that rate you will get your own money back in 2.5 years

[@Crypto-verse1]

The mining link please, i got my phones already

[@WaqarAfridi.]

i download verus but it isn't a free mining app maybe bcz i did't find any free mining in it now in 2024

[@optimus-ew3or]

HELLO how to get the application for the phone

[@DIY0815]

which makes more sense PC or telephone ? Certainly phone because of power consumption, which is not as much with a mobile as with a PC ?

[@RetroMikeTech]

Phone is better for power consumption, but PC is better for overall flexibility. I like phones for verus mining because once I set them up, I’m not tempted to move them onto something else.

[@DIY0815]

@@RetroMikeTech ok is the hasrate of the PC the same as the phone ?

[@RetroMikeTech]

@@DIY0815 it’s generally much higher on PC’s, but also much higher power consumption. My PC with a Ryzen 5950x gets around 40mh/s but consumes well over 100w. A phone does about 4mh/s at 3w.

[@sunnyminz12]

In luckpool how to find ip to withdraw verus balance please help 👏

[@RetroMikeTech]

You should be able to go to whatismyip.com from the phone to get it

[@omoklamok]

what is the use of verus?

[@gokyuzugokturk4946]

is it profitable with the phone ?

[@bestfriend100]

.05 cents bro where do you live i needa move frfr

[@tonyvalenzuela2976]

How much is this set up earning with today market

[@kaloyanarsenov4233]

Hey! I have planty of iPhones at home. Can I use them for mining?

[@RetroMikeTech]

I have not personally tested any mining with iphone. I may pick up a used device in the future and see what I can mine with it.

[@Pepaw-Bill]

Retro Mike what versus wallet are you using and exchange will use use to cash out or swap?

[@RetroMikeTech]

Verus Desktop Wallet. TradeOgre and SafeTrade are two good exchanges that support Verus.

[@Pepaw-Bill]

@@RetroMikeTech Thank you.