How to start mining monero using your phone!

By ScaleUp | Nomics | 11 Feb 2026

Monero (XMR) is made to be an ASIC resistant cryptocurrency, so you can get great hash rates by mining cpu only since its cpu friendly.

By using an Xiami 11T pro, i can make more than 800 hashes per second.

You won't getting rich from it, neither you will get considerable profit, yet it is one of the best crypto farming methods available for phone crypto farming.

I will provide a quick guide on setting this up, and start mining.

First, on Android, download Termux on PlayStore. It is simply a UNIX shell available for phone.

If you have IPhone im not sure if Termux is available, so you will have to find an compatible UNIX shell replacement.

Once you have Termux installed on your phone, simply:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install git build-essential cmake libuv1-dev libssl-dev libhwloc-dev

git clone https://github.com/xmrig/xmrig.git

cd xmrig

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make -j2

This downloads the dependencies and compile it to work with your phone cpu architecture. It does work on ARM cpu devices.

Once built, generate config file:

./xmrig --config=config.json

Your config file should include:

{
"autosave": true,
"cpu": {
"enabled": true,
"huge-pages": true,
"hw-aes": null,
"priority": null,
"memory-pool": false
},
"pools": [
{
"algo": "rx/0",
"coin": "monero",
"url": "pool.supportxmr.com:3333",
"user": "YOUR_WALLET_ADDRESS",
"pass": "x",
"keepalive": true,
"tls": true
}
]
}