I recently started to mine XVG and LUX on my laptop. Which is not a great think (NVIDIA GTX 740M) But I have been taking great results. Around 15 XVG daily, which is not so bad, and 0.002 LUX.
I can really feel that my GPU is not overloaded, even if I an running 2 .bat files at the same time and mining on the same small laptop to Yiimp on 2 different currencies. What I want to say is, depending on your possibilities (mine are low) you can really get good results mining coins like XVG, send directly to Binance and then trading them when you like, or mine LUX directly to their wallet and start staking. Which I believe is a good idea as well.
On my opinion, the NEO/GAS connection is a good thing.
Hoping that something helped you