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

https://mullvad.net/en/pricing

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    11 hours ago

    Mining isn’t economically worth it and it’s also bad for your components’ health as well as the environment

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      10 hours ago

      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.

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        3 hours ago

        20€ worth of XMR will still be more than 20€ worth of electricity. It ends up the same.

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            1 hour ago

            solar helps that number even more

            Wouldn’t that assume you are not using all the electricity coming from your panels?

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            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