The idea of CPU mining is nice, though, truth be told, if something like RandomX were used ona global currency in high demand, it'd encourage a degree of wasted hardware (and subsequent shortages) that'd be untenable. That it isn't doing so is simply due to Monero being in lower demand.

Not gonna tell people what code to run, but if it were me, I'd be mining with my CPU to swap into Bitcoin.

Today's Bitcoin Audible had a lot of good comparison data between XMR and Lightning with regard to privacy.