I was just chatting with a friend who said Monero seems to be mined using a GPU, and then I was wondering, isn't Monero CPU-based? (This is my first time using Monero and I don't know much about it.)
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Yeah, random x is CPU based.
In the past it was mined with GPUs but those algorithms has asics developed so Monero forked to random x.
You can probably still run it on a GPU if you wanted, I believe I have seen some ways to do this, but it would make more sense to mine a different coin that is more optimised to run on a GPU, then convert that to Monero, as you'd likely end up with more coins.
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Xmrig has an option to include gpu mining. It's less efficient than cpu mining, but it does add to your hashrate.