>Monero is explicitly designed to remain CPU mineable You're not wrong, but it can be and is mined on GPUs. Not sure about the payback period though because it

>Monero is explicitly designed to remain CPU mineable You're not wrong, but it can be and is mined on GPUs. Not sure about the payback period though because it is very CPU sensitive and the top benchmarks are for AMD's EPYC processors which don't come cheap. An i9-12k handily mines several times more than an Nvidia GPU so GPU mining payback is also potentially slow. At least according to the online guides it's also a losing proposition relative to the costs of electricity. So then allegedly the only way to profitably mine it is on someone else's energy and maybe their hardware too. For anyone truly seeking anonymity it seems like far less work to buy Monero from a localcoin vendor rather than mint your own, unless you have a lot of free time and hardware on your hands. Which may explain why antivirus software assumes if you're mining with xmrig, you've been pwned.