@inproceedings{46d37a31483246bd92841413a772fb38,
title = "A Power Analysis of Cryptocurrency Mining: A Mobile Device Perspective",
abstract = "We investigate the impact of how a cryptocurrency mining system can affect the power consumption of mobile devices. Specifically we look at CoinHive, a cryptocurrency miner and associated mining pool targeting the Monero (XMR) cryptocurrency. CoinHive distributes a JavaScript-based miner to webpages where visitors run the script and provide computing power to the web host's CoinHive account. Ideally, hosting JavaScript-based cryptocurrency miners provides alternatives to using ad-networks as a source of website revenue. While some users may not oppose an energy for advertisement trade-off, it may be less palatable to mobile users concerned with battery life. Our initial studies have revealed that, at a minimum, running the normally distributed JavaScript-based miner increases the power draw of a Samsung Galaxy S4 by about 5 fold. Under certain circumstances, the power draw can increase to eleven-fold. We illustrate these findings by comparing them with various normal use benchmarks and with a variety of different ad-enabled webpages.",
author = "James Clay and Alexander Hargrave and Ramalingam Sridhar",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2018 IEEE.; 16th Annual Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust, PST 2018 ; Conference date: 28-08-2018 Through 30-08-2018",
year = "2018",
month = oct,
day = "29",
doi = "10.1109/PST.2018.8514199",
language = "English",
series = "2018 16th Annual Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust, PST 2018",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
editor = "Deng, \{Robert H.\} and Stephen Marsh and Jason Nurse and Rongxing Lu and Sakir Sezer and Paul Miller and Liqun Chen and Kieran McLaughlin and Ali Ghorbani",
booktitle = "2018 16th Annual Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust, PST 2018",
address = "United States",
}