Crypto mining has evolved significantly in the last few years. Mining has become easier than ever. Today, you can mine on someone else machine sitting thousands of miles away. Some projects even let you mine directly on your phone.

One such method of crypto mining is on Telegram. The messaging platform is much beefier and more capable than its peers these days. Telegram supports several small apps within it called applets, many of which support crypto mining, such as Notcoin(NOT), Toncoin(TON), and the newly launched Dogs (DOGS).

What Is Bot-Based Crypto Mining?

Telegram has a special feature that no other messaging app has called “bots”. This automated software can do such work while conversationally interacting with you.

Among these bots, a few specialize in crypto mining. Either they let you mine directly on their mini-apps (applets) or help you mine on a server in another world, i.e., cloud mining.

How Does It Work?

Bot mining typically takes one of the two approaches. 

On the app, mining makes you do simple tasks like solving captchas, rapidly tapping on the app, playing fun games, and solving little computations, among others. Some examples include Lost Dogs, Cats, Iceberg, and Boom.

There are other bots that use cloud mining to allow you to mine high-computing cryptos like Bitcoin, Dogecoin, and Litecoin. These apps require you to pay a fee to use their computational resources.

How to Mine Crypto Using Telegram Bots?

Mining crypto on Telegram bots is easier than mining using any other platform. For example, the steps for mining Notcoin, one of the most popular Ton-based cryptocurrencies, are listed below.

1. Open the Notcoin bot in Telegram.
2. Send a message to initiate the app.
3. Click on the Earn option.
4. Another window will open with the Notcoin bot.
5. This window requires you to connect your Telegram wallet. You can either import an existing wallet or create one if you haven’t created one yet.
6. The next window will show you several options to earn money, such as 
   1. Invite users to earn a reward.
   2. Play Not Games like Lost Dogs.
   3. Join Pineye Journey (earns 0.002 NOT per hour).
   4. Collect AI fantasies (earns 0.002 NOT per hour).

The tap-and-earn feature to earn Notcoin that was earlier available on the NOT app has been discontinued in favour of other ways to earn NOT.

Which Cryptocurrencies Can You Mine on Telegram?

There are several other cryptocurrencies besides NOT that you can mine using Telegram bots; some of them are listed below.

1. GrandCombat is a mining mini-app on Telegram that lets you mine COMBAT coins.
2. The Clayton Bot is yet another Telegram mini app to mine CL on it,
3. Musk Empire also lets you earn MUSK on its Telegram app.
4. Tonoreum is another Ton blockchain-based app that lets you mine TOR on its mini app.
5. Agent301Bot lets you mine AGENT on its Telegram mini app.

How To Stay Safe From Ponzi Schemes on Telegram?

Several Ponzi schemes on Telegram look very genuine but can easily drain your Telegram wallet if you use them. However, there is a very simple way of detecting them. Here are some common characteristics found in many Ponzi schemes.

• Promise of High Returns

Several dapps promise high returns that beat the bets returns crypto markets can yield. These promises are usually hollow; once you invest in these schemes, your funds might be lost forever.

This is the most commonly used scamming tactic and is usually targeted at new users.

• Guaranteed Returns

There is nothing like guaranteed returns in the crypto markets because cryptocurrencies tend to be highly volatile. Even in the case of stablecoins, the guaranteed returns hardly exceed a couple of percentages.

However, these schemes seem like their ticket to success for those users lured into crypto to make millions from a couple of hundred dollars.

• Will Ask for a Lot of Permissions

Usually, crypto transactions require permission to proceed stepwise. Even when many permissions are required, they hardly exceed 3-4 and can be easily read on the wallet screen.

Scammers often use a clever scheme and disguise wallet-draining commands as complex permissions that most people overlook. Once you sign them, your wallet is as good as drained within the next few minutes.

• Defrauding via Investment Schemes

Several fake investment groups on Telegram are either populated with bots or fake users. Within these groups, they lure users by showing fake screenshots of payments. 

Once a user invests some money, these groups give multifold returns just to lure them to invest more. The user invests big the second time and loses the entire crypto.