Let's talk about the current state of CPU mining. To be honest, the cryptocurrencies with real profit margins are few and far between, mainly including ETI, TARI, QRL, and XMR. They all use the Monero algorithm, but the first three have obvious issues—too low emission rates, making mining nearly unprofitable.

In contrast, XMR has a daily emission of about $197,000, which looks pretty good. However, in terms of mining revenue, using a 9950X CPU to mine only earns about $0.13 per day. What does this mean? At this rate, it would take roughly ten years to break even.

Frankly, this kind of ROI is somewhat awkward for most miners. Unless you are long-term optimistic about XMR's value or are in an area with extremely low electricity costs, investing idle computing power doesn't make much sense.