Paper Info
Title
CryptoCurrency Mining on Mobile as an Alternative Monetization Approach
Abstract
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.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1145/3301293.3302372
Proceedings of the 20th International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications
Keywords
Field
DocType
cryptocurrency mining, distributed mobile computing, mobile monetization
World Wide Web,User experience design,Mobile app,Spare part,Android (operating system),Computer science,Monetization,Profitability index,Mobile device,Cryptocurrency
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4503-6273-3
0
0.34
References 
Authors
2
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sinh Huynh152.18
Kenny T. W. Choo253.09
Rajesh Krishna Balan3105680.30
Youngki Lee483270.33