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Mine Pi - Young cryptocurrency like Bitcoin - Blockchain for beginners

Tharun Shiv on June 14, 2020

Three Stanford PhDs have developed an easy access-for-all blockchain cryptocurrency, that you can mine on your mobile phone. You're here at the ri...
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umamaheswari.v

I joined the Pi network few days back. Lets see.. πŸ‘

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Tharun Shiv

Yes πŸ™‚

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Jaya chandrika reddy • Edited

I was searching for referral code finally found it. Thanks for the referral, i started mining pi coinsπŸ€“

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Tharun Shiv

Great! :)

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Omar

I try it , but I can't handle 1 hour that an app work in background and I don't know if I can trust or no.
So I delete it

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Tharun Shiv • Edited

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I noticed that it doesn't run even for a second in the background. You can see that I have used the app for 38 minutes, but the app has run for 0 seconds in the background.

Well I can also restrict background usage.

Source: My settings of the phone. Android.

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Omar

Weird if he doesn't run in the background so how did he mine? there is something wrong...
He mine using cpu/gpu of the phone .

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Tharun Shiv

Hi, so as explained in the post, the network is in phase 2. Where all of this is simulated and tested. The mining will happen on Nodes which are installed by the pioneers on their computers. Also this simulation will finish by phase 2, and in phase 3, all of the coins will be transferred to the live main net.

  • The white paper tells this
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Omar

Ah now its more clear

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Tharun Shiv

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Tharun Shiv

Does it run in the background for one hour even after closing the app? How did you track this?
Thank you for letting us knowπŸ™‚

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Omar

it works for 24 hour in background :D
every 24h you need to press a button inside the App , to make sure ur not a bot

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Tharun Shiv

I see.. I'll check how much it consumes

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praveenreddy1798

Well written

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Tharun Shiv

Thank you πŸ™‚

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Jaeger Sounds • Edited

if anybody needs a invite code.

here is mine : tum0r

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Tharun Shiv

Thanks for commenting. πŸ™‚

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Shamveel anas

There is no mobile verification option for indians, so what we will do?

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Tharun Shiv

Yeah i asked this question. They told me that facebook verification is enough.

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venkat anirudh

Thanks... great article.

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Tharun Shiv

Glad it helped πŸ™‚

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ChewAn RAi

You can use C1kulung as invitation code.

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Bankesie Anthony

beautiful engineering, only few can read PiNetwork and understand the next iteration. That is very special about the Network.

Congratulations to all Poineers. #PiNetwork