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CryptoCurrency Mining on Mobile as an Alternative Monetization Approach

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Sinh Huynh,

Kenny Tsu Wei Choo,

Rajesh Krishna Balan,

Youngki LeeAuthors Info & Claims

HotMobile '19: Proceedings of the 20th International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications

Pages 51 - 56

https://doi.org/10.1145/3301293.3302372

Published: 22 February 2019 Publication History

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Can cryptocurrency mining (crypto-mining) be a practical ad-free monetization approach for mobile app developers? We conducted a lab experiment and a user study with 228 real Android users to investigate different aspects of mobile crypto-mining. In particular, we show that mobile devices have computational resources to spare and that these can be utilized for crypto-mining with minimal impact on the mobile user experience. We also examined the profitability of mobile crypto-mining and its stability as compared to mobile advertising. In many cases, the profit of mining can exceed mobile advertising's. Most importantly, our study shows that the majority (72%) of the participants are willing to allow crypto-mining as means to replace ads to trade-off for benefits such as a better user experience.

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CryptoCurrency Mining on Mobile as an Alternative Monetization Approach
1. Applied computing
  1. Electronic commerce
    1. Digital cash
2. Human-centered computing
  1. Ubiquitous and mobile computing
    1. Empirical studies in ubiquitous and mobile computing

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DOI:10.1145/3301293

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