# "70 pesos is my last money": a cloud mining app grew sixfold in a week on an AI MrBeast and a reskin pipeline > Source: https://stringers.io/en/apps/play_com.orbimine.cloud.html (Stringers / 什么值得做, generated 2026-11-08) > Stringers answers one question every day: what small product can one or two people build in a few months and actually make money from. Numbers come from 15 databases we collect daily, each with source and date. > For agents: these verdicts and the underlying databases (verified revenue, App Store / Google Play charts, ad libraries, GitHub, Product Hunt…) are queryable live over MCP — tools today / hot / products / directions / direction / data. Setup: https://github.com/komako-workshop/stringers (the user logs in at stringers.io → "配置 agent" to get a personal URL). Site index: https://stringers.io/llms.txt > It wasn't discovered by people. The same family (PowerMine, Cloud Hashrate Hub and others) relisted under new package names and developer accounts. It bought installs by running AI-generated MrBeast ads inside other apps, and propped itself up with ratings that are almost all five stars and top-grossing spots in low-bar countries. [Mobile App](https://stringers.io/en/apps/index.md) · Android · written 11-6 OrbiMine: Cloud Miner · RedCrest # "70 pesos is my last money": a cloud mining app grew sixfold in a week on an AI MrBeast and a reskin pipeline **What it is** A "cloud mining" app: watch ads to earn compute, spend $0.99–$199.99 on virtual mining rigs, and once you've saved enough, withdraw a tiny bit of bitcoin. **Why it took off** Nobody discovered it. The same family (PowerMine, Cloud Hashrate Hub, and others) re-listed under new package names and developer accounts, bought paid acquisition with AI-generated MrBeast ads inside other apps, and propped up the store with near-all five-star reviews and charts in low-bar countries. **E** **How you could follow it** I don't recommend following this business. The only things worth borrowing are the tactics: running multiple package names in parallel, climbing niche small-country charts, and using rewarded video for daily retention. Apply them to a legitimate product you're willing to actually pay users out on. E grade: the money comes from using celebrities without permission in AI ads and from making users unable to withdraw. Switching countries or languages doesn't change that. Legitimate ad-to-earn crypto apps (CryptoTab, GoMining) already have millions of users, so followers have no clean position and take on account-ban and legal risk. Nobody knows about it yet Data (updated daily) · first launch 2026-10-13 · 11-07 installs 11,512 Android · Total installs worldwide Data 2026-10-30 → 2026-11-07 (9 days, 9 observations). Google's detail page only refreshes install counts every other day, so a flat day doesn't mean nobody installed. Android · Ratings count (cumulative) Data 2026-10-30 → 2026-11-07 (9 days, 9 observations) OrbiMine: Cloud Miner launched on Google Play in Oct 13. Within a week, installs went from 1,804 to 11,512, and it squeezed into the top 40 of the Utilities Top Grossing charts in South Africa and Nigeria, with a rating of 4.8. It looks like a newly discovered product. It's actually a new shell in a cloud mining app family. The traffic is bought, and some of the good reviews look manufactured too. Below I lay out what it is, where the traffic comes from, where the money comes from, and why this one isn't recommended to follow. ### "It's my last money" On Nov 3, a Filipino user left a one-star review on OrbiMine's store page: > Asking me to top up from time to time after I paid 70 pesos. I am looking for something to add my source of income.....I70 is my last money... —After I paid 70 pesos, it kept asking me to top up again. I wanted extra income... those 70 pesos were my last money. The same day, another one-star review said "Your Speed Wallet doesn't work in the Philippines at all." Going back a day further, on Nov 4, someone put it more bluntly: "Your unskippable two-minute MrBeast AI garbage ad is spamming other apps. I refuse to watch your ads." (Google Play reviews) These three reviews are almost the whole story of this app: who uses it, how they got there, and how the money gets collected. ### What it is On the store page, it calls itself a "phone management tool for remote compute services." The description uses three paragraphs to disclaim everything: no phone CPU/GPU mining, not an exchange or wallet, and "displayed data does not guarantee earnings." It's filed under Utilities, not Finance. What users actually see is something else. Open the app and there's a BTC counter that keeps climbing. Watching a few ads a day earns a "free rig" (called an ad miner in the app). To grow faster, you buy virtual rigs, priced from $0.99 to $199.99 each (R18.99–R3,799.99 in the South Africa store). Once you hit the threshold, you can withdraw a small amount of BTC, measured in satoshis. In the same family of apps, users report that each withdrawal is capped at 0.000025 BTC unless you buy more expensive upgrades. One user did the math for everyone: the most expensive rig is listed at 7.99 TH/s, and you'd have to run it for 699 days to mine back the $200 you paid (Cloud Hashrate Hub review, 10-27). ### It's not a new product OrbiMine's developer is called RedCrest and uses a personal Gmail account. On its own that means nothing, but put side by side the picture is clear: there are at least five more near-identical "cloud mining" apps on Google Play. | App | Launched | Installs (11-06) | Developer | |---|---|---|---| | PowerMine | 2025-12-30 | 685k, +40k in 7 days | Personal Gmail | | CloudMineX | 2026-04-03 | 344k | Personal Gmail | | VTRX Miner | 2026-05-29 | 272k | Personal Gmail | | Cloud Hashrate Hub | 2026-08-19 | 172k | Personal Gmail | | Katva cloud mining | 2026-05-08 | 78k | A US LLC | | **OrbiMine** | 2026-10-13 | 11.5k | Personal Gmail | Several things match: - **The privacy policy uses the same template** : `www./_Privacy_Policy.html`. OrbiMine is `OrbiMineCloud_Privacy_Policy.html`, Cloud Hashrate Hub is `CloudHashrate_Privacy_Policy.html`. The store descriptions use the same "no phone mining, not an exchange" script. - **The same thing happened the same week** : around Oct 23, withdrawals for PowerMine, Cloud Hashrate Hub, CloudMineX, VTRX, and OrbiMine all switched together from Speed Wallet (Lightning Network) to Binance UID only. Users in the US and Canada can't use Binance, and the reviews filled with "can't withdraw anymore." On October 30–31 they all switched back together. - **The five-star reviews are word-for-word identical** : "Thank you for getting rid of binance!! Back to a 5 star." It appeared under OrbiMine, Cloud Hashrate Hub, and PowerMine on Oct 31. "since they resolved the issues I can withdraw again but they should have let us know what was happening" appeared once under each of the three on Nov 1, punctuation included. - **Even the bugs are the same** : "ad miner asks to log in again" appears once each under OrbiMine on 11-04 and Cloud Hashrate Hub on 11-02. One five-star review on OrbiMine even mentions "power mine" directly. So it isn't competing with these apps. It's a new shell from the same operator. That inference is strong, but there's no evidence about the company entity itself. ### Where the traffic comes from **AI-generated MrBeast ads run inside other apps** . This is what the reviews talk about most. Under OrbiMine someone wrote "seeing MrBeast promote it is how you know it's a scam." Under PowerMine someone said "the AI can't even pronounce 'rich' right," someone else said "this is the fourth MrBeast-recommended app I've installed," and one person sincerely thanked him: "Thank you for recommending this to me, MrBeast! You're a legend!" Which ad networks ran the ads and how much was spent can't be found from outside. None of these package names show up in the public Meta, Google, or TikTok ad libraries. They were most likely placed in interstitials and rewarded videos inside game apps (inference). **Matrix cross-promotion** . During the withdrawal fiasco, the old shells got a flood of one-star reviews, while OrbiMine's installs jumped exactly on 10-31 (+2,772) and 11-02 (+4,584) (Google Play install counts). Whether old users were deliberately steered to the new shell can't be determined. Inference only. **Good reviews as a floor** . As of 11-06, of OrbiMine's 152 ratings, 143 are five-star and 8 are one-star, with almost nothing at two to four stars. Real user ratings are rarely this polarized. Most five-star reviews read "good app," "enjoyable," or "My children need to go to school." One five-star review says "Seeing MrBeast promote it is how you know it's a scam. I gave five stars so more people would see this." **Organic traffic: none** . Searching TikTok turns up no related videos, nobody on X mentions it, and the only web presence is auto-indexed download sites. ### Where the money comes from - **Selling virtual rigs** at $0.99–$199.99. Reviews in the same family mention people who paid $2, $50, $100, $200, and $615. - **Rewarded video ads** : users earn compute by watching ads, so watching ads is itself a revenue source. - **Payout is kept very low** : high withdrawal thresholds, small per-withdrawal caps, frequent "withdrawing too often" and "invalid address" errors, and withdrawal channels get swapped without notice. Trend Micro (2021 years) and Fortinet have both written analyses of this "fake cloud mining" app playbook. - **Why South Africa and Nigeria** : the Utilities Top Grossing charts in these two countries have a low bar. A few $199.99 purchases can get you into the top 40, and charting brings a bit of store exposure. On the same South Africa chart, #26 is Cloud Hashrate Hub, #32 is PowerMine, and #56 is CloudMineX. One family holds several spots. ### Can you ride it? What you can learn is the tactics, not the business: - Run several package names and developer accounts in parallel. When one gets bad reviews or is pulled, the next one picks up the traffic. - Climb niche Top Grossing charts in low-bar countries to buy exposure. - Use "watch a few ads to earn a reward each day" to drive retention. But this business only makes money because of two things a follower shouldn't do: using celebrity faces without permission in AI ads, and taking users' money without letting them withdraw it. Remove those two and what's left is an app where you watch ads to earn a few cents of bitcoin. The legitimate versions, CryptoTab and GoMining, have been doing that for years and have millions of users. ### If it were you **E, avoid** . Its growth and revenue both rest on celebrity impersonation and non-payment. Switching countries or languages doesn't change that, and the legitimate approach already has big players. **Who it's for** : no one should follow it. Paid acquisition people can study it as a case: multi-shell matrix, low-bar Top Grossing charts, and rewarded-video retention. Those three moves can be applied to legitimate products. **Who it's not for** : anyone looking to build a "sit back and mine coins" app. Google Play's policies on crypto and misleading ads are getting stricter. A developer account tied to a personal Gmail getting banned is only a matter of time, and using MrBeast's likeness carries legal risk. **How to build / acquire users** : don't. If you want to borrow the tactics, apply "multi-package testing + niche small-country chart climbing + rewarded video" to a product you're willing to actually pay users out on. **When it stops working** : not applicable. A shell like this probably lasts only months. "Scam" comments keep piling up, and the next shell is likely already in the works. **What would mean I got it wrong:** ① OrbiMine or PowerMine discloses an operating company, withdrawals stay steady, and rating distribution looks normal. That would mean it's a dull but real business, not a payout scam. ② Six months from now, the apps in this family are still live on Google Play and still climbing. That would mean the platform is tolerating it, and this gray market is bigger than I thought. ③ A legitimate, registered operator pays out on real compute and grows through similar paid acquisition. That would make "cloud mining" a category worth following. [Android store page ↗](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.orbimine.cloud) **Research notes: competitor table, acquisition evidence, full research report** Competitors | Name | Where | Launched | Scale | How it differs from this one | |---|---|---|---|---| | PowerMine | Android | 2025-12-30 | 685k installs, South Africa TOOLS Top Grossing 32 | Nearly identical. Very likely the same operator. Reviews cross-reference each other, and withdrawal issues show up at the same time. | | Cloud Hashrate Hub (BTC Miner) | Android | 2026-08-19 | 172k installs, South Africa TOOLS Top Grossing 26,14 store | Same template. Review wording matches (ad miner needs re-login, thanks for removing Binance). | | CloudMineX / VTRX Miner / Katva | Android | 2026-04~05 | 78k–344k installs | Same privacy policy URL template and compliance boilerplate. Around the same time, all of them switched withdrawals from Speed to Binance. | | BTC Cloud Mining, BitTycoon, Bitcoin Mining (Crypto Miner), and others | Android | 2023–2025 | 200k–4.6M installs, listed under FINANCE | An older batch of the same playbook. OrbiMine sits under TOOLS and its compliance copy is heavier. | | GoMining | Android | 2023-02 | 5.13M installs | A proper NFT compute platform with a registered company. OrbiMine is a short-lived shell on a personal Gmail developer account. | | CT Pool / CryptoTab | Android | 2020–2023 | Millions of installs | An old mobile mining + browser app that grows through referral loops. OrbiMine relies on paid acquisition. | Where users come from - **Confirmed** **AI video ads using the MrBeast likeness, run inside other apps** : Play reviews include 2026-11-04 "unskippable 2 minute Mr. Beast AI slop ads are spamming other apps"; 10-20 "this is a scam because MrBeast advertises it"; reviews on sibling apps also mention MrBeast. - Inferred **matrix cross-promotion / migrating existing users** : one backend, 10-23–27 simultaneously switched withdrawals from Speed to Binance, then 10-30/31 switched back. Reviews mention PowerMine. OrbiMine picked up traction in 10-31 and 11-02. - Inferred **fake or incentivized five-star reviews** : star distribution [28,0,0,2,113]. 5-star reviews are empty, including "Rated five stars for visibility." - **Confirmed** **low-barrier countries used to push into the Top Grossing charts** : TOOLS Top Grossing ranks South Africa 37, Nigeria 40, Philippines 71. Same chart also has sibling PowerMine 32 and Cloud Hashrate Hub 26. - Inferred **organic content / social / press** : nothing relevant on TikTok, X (x-radar), or web search. ## OrbiMine: Cloud Miner (com.orbimine.cloud): why it's charting > Channel: Google Play | Developer: RedCrest (email sonyagonza48@gmail.com, personal Gmail) | Store launch 2026-10-13, v1.0.1 updated 2026-10-23 | Research day 2026-11-06 ### Bottom line This isn't a new standalone product. It's a new shell in a **"cloud mining" App network** . Same back end: an "ad miner" that converts ad views into hash power, virtual miners sold for $0.99–$199.99, and micro BTC withdrawals over the Lightning Network. It's relisted under a new package name, new developer account, and new domain. **MrBeast-style AI video ads run heavily inside other apps** drive the traffic. The polarized 1-star / 5-star rating pattern also looks like review manipulation. Installs are climbing because the network is funneling and buying traffic into a fresh shell, not because the product was discovered. ### 1. Data (source: googleplay library, 2026-10-30 to 11-06) - Installs: 1,804 (10-30) → 4,576 (10-31) → 9,160 (11-02) → 10,382 (11-05) → 11,512 (11-06). Up 9,708 over 7 days. - Ratings: 57 → 145. Star distribution is only 1-star and 5-star (11-06 was [28,0,0,2,113], live store shows [8,0,0,0,142]). 2–3 stars are nearly zero, a polarized split typical of fake reviews. - Top Grossing (TOOLS): South Africa 48→37, Nigeria 59→40, Philippines 72 (11-03/04), Germany 146→95, UK 171→119. The South Africa TOOLS grossing chart has a low bar. In the same chart, #26 is the similar Cloud Hashrate Hub, #32 is PowerMine, and #56 is CloudMineX. - In-app purchases: $0.99–$199.99 per item (R18.99–R3,799.99 in the South Africa store). Includes ads. - Play reviews (scraped with google-play-scraper from za/us, 31 reviews after dedupe): the most frequent terms are Speed Wallet, Binance, ad miner, MrBeast, scam. ### 2. Competitors and "sibling apps" Cloud mining apps on Play using the same template (googleplay library): | App | Developer (account) | Launched | Installs | Notes | |---|---|---|---|---| | PowerMine (com.powermine.cloud) | Elizabeth Wheaton / briannnguyen111@gmail.com | 2025-12-30 | 685k, +40k in 7 days | South Africa TOOLS Top Grossing 32, Italy 23 | | Cloud Hashrate Hub (com.cloud.hashrate.hub.app) | QWR Core / personal Gmail | 2026-08-19 | 172k, +26k in 7 days | South Africa TOOLS Top Grossing 26,14 store | | CloudMineX (com.cloudminex.app) | TellSkynnerjv / personal Gmail | 2026-04-03 | 344k | South Africa TOOLS Top Grossing 56 | | VTRX Miner (com.vtrxminer.cloud.tool) | "App developer 02" / personal Gmail | 2026-05-29 | 272k | Brazil TOOLS Top Grossing 92 | | Katva cloud mining | QUAIL RIDGE REALTY LLC | 2026-05-08 | 78k | Germany TOOLS Top Grossing 137 | | BTC Cloud Mining / BitTycoon / BitCloudFarm / Bitcoin Mining (Crypto Miner), and others | Various | 2023–2025 | 200k–4.6M | FINANCE category, same playbook | | GoMining (io.gmt.app.twa) | GOMINING (CYPRUS) | 2023-02 | 5.13M | A legitimate NFT compute platform | | CT Pool / CryptoTab | CT Technologies | 2020–2023 | Millions | Old-school "mobile mining" | **Evidence of a shared operator (OrbiMine, PowerMine, Cloud Hashrate Hub, CloudMineX, and VTRX are very likely one company):** 1. The privacy policy URLs use the same template `https://www./_Privacy_Policy.html` (OrbiMineCloud_, CloudHashrate_, CloudMineX_, VTRXMiner_, Katvacloud_). The descriptions use the same compliance boilerplate: "remote computing / hashpower management tool, no phone CPU/GPU, not an exchange" (googleplay library, app table). 2. Each app is tied to a different personal Gmail developer account, with .cloud or .top domains. 3. **The same event happened in the same week** : around 10-23 to 10-27, withdrawals for PowerMine, VTRX, CloudMineX, Cloud Hashrate Hub, and OrbiMine all switched from Speed Wallet (Lightning) to Binance UID only. Around 10-30/31 they all switched back to Speed. Several apps' reviews include "Thank you for getting rid of binance!! Back to a 5 star" (OrbiMine 10-31, Cloud Hashrate Hub 10-31, word for word). 4. All have "ad miner" (trade ads for hashpower) and "login again" bugs (OrbiMine 11-04, Cloud Hashrate Hub 11-02, with nearly identical review wording). All have users mentioning MrBeast ads. 5. An OrbiMine review says "power mine supply in every recharge," directly naming PowerMine. Conclusion: OrbiMine isn't competing with these products. It's a new shell this matrix opened 2026-10. The real outside competitors are GoMining, CT Pool/CryptoTab, and the older cloud mining apps in FINANCE. There's no difference in product form. ### 3. Growth tactics | Channel | Evidence | Confirmed? | |---|---|---| | AI video ads using the MrBeast likeness, run inside other apps | Play review 2026-11-04 "Your unskippable 2 minute Mr. Beast AI slop ads are spamming other apps"; 10-20 "You can tell this is a scam because MrBeast advertises it"; PowerMine and Cloud Hashrate Hub reviews also include "mr beast sucks" and "good job mr beast." | User reviews confirm it. The creative itself doesn't show up in our Meta / Google / TikTok ad libraries (OrbiMine is on the googleads watch list, but not yet mapped to an advertiser). | | Matrix cross-promotion / migrating existing users | Same backend, withdrawals switched together. Reviews mention PowerMine. The new shell started picking up traction at 10-31 and 11-02, right after the Speed/Binance event. | Inferred, medium confidence | | Fake or incentivized five-star reviews | Stars are almost all 1-star and 5-star. 5-star reviews are empty ("good app," "enjoyable," "My children need to go to school"), and some say "Rated five stars for visibility." | Inferred | | Watch-ads-for-rewards (a retention hook in the mechanic) | "ad miner": watch ads to earn hashpower, capped at 0/20 per day (Cloud Hashrate Hub reviews) | Confirmed by reviews | | Organic content / social / media | TikTok search for "orbimine" returns no relevant videos; x-radar 60 days 0 posts; the web only shows auto-indexing from CNET's download site, AppBrain, and Similarweb | Confirmed none | ### 4. Where the money comes from - Main revenue: selling virtual "miner / hashrate" in-app purchases ($0.99–$199.99). User reviews mention paying 70 pesos, $34, $100, and some even claim "$16000". The advertised earnings don't add up (one user worked it out: earning $100 a day would take roughly 3 PH/s). - Secondary revenue: rewarded video ads (ad miner). - Payback model: withdrawals pay out tiny amounts of BTC (one user made 8 withdrawals totaling 0.000029 BTC), with high thresholds, frequent "failed" results, and temporary switches of withdrawal channels that suppress payouts. This is a variant of the "fake crypto mining" pattern covered by Trend Micro and Fortinet (trendmicro.com 2021 fake cryptocurrency mining apps; fortinet.com "A Mobile Bitcoin Miner? Really?"). - Targets South Africa, Nigeria, the Philippines, Germany, and the UK. The first three have low entry barriers on the TOOLS Top Grossing chart, so a few large IAP purchases can get it charted, and chart visibility then brings a bit of store traffic. ### 5. Why it works 1. **Matrix reuse** : backend, creatives, and compliance copy are ready-made. Swap the package name, developer account, and domain to launch a new shell. When an old shell gets bad reviews or is pulled, a new one picks up the volume (OrbiMine's growth came right after the Speed→Binance incident). 2. **MrBeast-style AI ad buying** : uses celebrity faces as bait for "free BTC mining," running rewarded or interstitial video ads inside games and other apps. Low unit cost, high volume. 3. **Low-barrier markets to climb the grossing chart** : in South Africa and Nigeria, TOOLS Top Grossing rank 30–40 needs very little revenue. A 5-star rating props it up, so it looks "healthy." 4. **Compliance wording to dodge review** : descriptions repeatedly stress "no phone mining, not an exchange, no guaranteed returns," and it's filed under TOOLS rather than FINANCE to lower the chance of Play's finance policy review. ### VI. Differentiation No product-level differentiation. Feature set, copy, and withdrawal flow are essentially the same as sister apps PowerMine, Cloud Hashrate Hub, and CloudMineX. Its traction comes from the "new shell + paid acquisition + review boosting" playbook, not from differentiation. ### 7. Visibility and copycats - Visibility: almost no one knows about it. No media or X coverage, no public revenue figures; online there are only auto-indexed download-site listings. Users in the community have called it a scam. - Copycats: it's already one member of a matrix. At least 5 apps share the same template (PowerMine, Cloud Hashrate Hub, CloudMineX, VTRX Miner, Katva), and the FINANCE category has more than a dozen more. ### VIII. What to borrow (the tactics only, not the model) - Run multiple shells off one backend to spread takedown risk and cross-promote; use different developer accounts and domains for each shell. - Climb niche Top Grossing charts in low-barrier countries to trade for visibility. - Use rewarded video as a retention hook, like "daily tasks." - Note: the model itself involves misleading celebrity ads and payout problems, carries high Play takedown and legal risk, and is not recommended for copying. ### 9. Uncertain - The specific platforms (AdMob / AppLovin / Unity, etc.) and spend for the MrBeast-style creatives were not found. The Meta, Google, and TikTok ad libraries show no matching advertisers. - "Same operator" is inferred from templates, synchronized events, and cross-referenced reviews. There's no evidence from business registration or developer entity records. - Real revenue and paying rates are unverified; review boosting is only inferred from the rating distribution. - Whether paid acquisition pays back is unclear: recovery depends mainly on users buying miners and then withdrawing, with payouts discounted. Specific ROI is unknown. ### Sources - googleplay library (agent-im server, DuckDB): app, app_snap, app_day, chart_rank, app_profile, v_chart, 2026-10-30~11-06 - Google Play listing [play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.orbimine.cloud](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.orbimine.cloud) (2026-11-06 read via Jina); reviews scraped with google-play-scraper (OrbiMine, PowerMine, Cloud Hashrate Hub, VTRX Miner, CloudMineX) - Web search (Jina): CNET download pages, AppBrain, Similarweb listings; Trend Micro 2021 fake mining app report; Fortinet blog - TikHub TikTok search for "orbimine" and "OrbiMine cloud miner": no relevant videos - x-radar search for "orbimine" and "powermine" over 60 days: 0 posts - metaads / googleads / tiktokads libraries, app_link / adv_app: none of these package names found This article was written by AI from public data and the data we collect daily. Numbers are sourced, and inferences are labeled.