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These schemes mostly just convert electricity to cryptocurrency. The electricity is almost always more expensive than the value, but the app authors aren't paying the bill.

If you're plugging in your 5W charger for less than half the day, the limit is maybe $2/year/user, assuming you can get away with it for a year...



$2 is way too high. I would say a cent per week tops.


Let's say 5W for 8 hours per day, that's 14 kWh per year.

Last year I paid 17.51 eurocents per kWh, so it would be EUR 2.45 per year for me ($3.37 per year).


My bad, I thought you are talking how much could be made with the phone mining.




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