Mullvad gives you a discount if you pay with crypto, and monero is supposed to be the private crypto. What is the best way to get Monero? I’m in Canada
Mullvad gives you a discount if you pay with crypto, and monero is supposed to be the private crypto. What is the best way to get Monero? I’m in Canada
Mining it for two or three weeks usually pays my 3 month plan at airvpn, with a modern AMD processor, not sure how the modern intel processors mine. It’s probably the best way to anonymously obtain xmr. Xmrig has good documentation and is fairly easy to set up. Cake wallet has a way to purchase crypto with a cc, but not xmr directly, would have to purchase litecoin then swap to xmr in the app.
Mining isn’t economically worth it and it’s also bad for your components’ health as well as the environment
Mining on a cpu is much less taxing than a gpu, and if you do it intermittently and do not run all cores there’s no additional strain on hardware.
20€ worth of XMR will still be more than 20€ worth of electricity. It ends up the same.
$20 of xmr is no where near $20 of electricity in the states, and having solar helps that number even more.
I believe if it was worth it to mine, everyone would do it until it is not anymore, especially in countries where electricity is extra cheap
After testing on my machine, I ended up losing more than 10x the amount I paid in electricity in France. I’m not sure it’ll be better elsewhere. This was at 0.20€/kWh
Not everyone knows it’s worth it to do it. Fully understand where you are coming from, it’s not viable in some countries right now.
Wouldn’t that assume you are not using all the electricity coming from your panels?
Correct, it does assume you took that power usage into consideration
Exchanging money is also not economically worth it. And if you only pay for renewable electricity it isn’t bad for the environment either, at least on paper.
You know that both of your statements are false in a specific way
As are yours. So it balances out.
The components health section is probably nearly void, it seems like the lifespan of a CPU isn’t impacted if it doesn’t overheat. You’re probably right on that, I’m not a hardware expert though.
Mining seems not worth it imo, based on my experience, but someone told me otherwise 🤷
It is most certainly bad for the environment. Even if you use green energy, the infrastructure used to deliver the energy isn’t green when initially created and has a limited lifespan. Also, you probably remove green energy from people that didn’t care at the same time, so it ends up having a negative impact. If the green energy production % doesn’t change, then someone uses more non-green energy if you start using green.
I didn’t even address the component wear because I didn’t know either way. 😁
But as long as you pay for green energy none of that money will go towards supporting non-green infrastructure. So it should incentivise the energy companies to invest more into green ones.
Of course it doesn’t change where your energy is really coming from. Most likely from the gas plant around the corner. But maybe from your rich neighbour’s solar panels.
I believe people getting non-green energy will just get less green energy, at least that’s how I would imagine it if there was already enough green energy for the ones who demand it. Instead of making more green energy, they’ll just send less green energy to the people that aren’t paying for green energy. If your country doesn’t produce a lot of it, then yea it’ll certainly incentivise the production of it, but I feel like keeping green energy only for premium payers, without developping infrastructure is more worth it to them.
Thanks!