No.
I mean, check https://www.coinwarz.com/mining/monero/calculator and see for yourself, but I don’t think so.
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Of you want to donate to providers or purchase services you are better off just paying cash, or anonymous through those prepaid visa cards. Mining (if even possibel) on that PC is just going to run up your electricity bill.
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Hey I did some actual testing. On an old dual Xeon pc it’s barely worth it. You might get about 2 monero a year output and after paying for the electricity it ran a $100 yearly profit.
This was with a 40 core 80 thread rig set up to be relatively efficient per watt with a fair amount of optimization and some stuff set up that would make it not really useful for other applications.
It was also decently loud and hot.
E: You are really probably better off just laundering your cash and using that to directly pay for stuff or buy monero if you absolutely, positively have to have an immutable ledger.
I can help you figure out how to use cash in a way that keeps you anonymous or private if you will say what keeps you from being able to.
Lookup RandomX cpu benchmarks. That will tell you roughly what the CPU is capable of doing as far as hash rate, and then you can stick that into a calculator such as on the nano.p2pool.observer site under share calculator.
Wrong forum for this type of question.
But No. Its also not nearly as big of a deal as your making it out to be. No one cares you're topping off your mulvad subscription using xmr. Just use cash or buy crypto on a CEX/atm/local and swap to xmr. Especially on an old, less power efficient computer. You need to use Ryzen CPU, folks usually buy minisforum pcs for this.
just ran the numbers, if you get one of these newer amd ryzen pc's you actually might be able break even if your electric is less than 12 cents USD / kwh
use xmrrig.com for benchmark for cpus use miniforum pcs or build your own use https://www.coinwarz.com/mining/monero/calculator use monerica for swap services
Also, if your this concerned with your privacy you should run your own node. See monero.fail
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