Altcoins based on mobile mining: Do they affect mobile performance ? Is there any research done on this ?
no need research, it depends on what the developer mean by "mining" here.
because apparently there are many mobile mining that didn't actually mine anything since token is pre minted and dev just distribute the token to their users who do some mundane things such as repeatedly clicking the app and count the reward based on that.
it doesn't mine anything because it doesn't solve mathematical problem, so if that's the case it won't affect mobile performance.
pretty different if by installing app somehow the devs requires your computing power to solve problem, then it's mining, but you can easily notice this kind of mining because if they truly do mining in your mobile app, it'd be recorded on battery usage history, etc.
Yeah, as the answer is too obvious. Definitely it affects it. Mobile mining apps are not different from the other apps that we use daily. They eat RAM, phone storage, battery, etc.... Depending on our phone and how the app is built, our phone might get slow or not totally struggle. Mobile mining is like a gimmick only because they are not built for them. What happen is that we are only being shown a mining animation and then we are only being given by a crypto directly.
Even though we say they are not too heavy, they can still be a waste of time and some might be risky as they have a malware which can can steal our data's. So it is not worth it to have them.