Education·27 January 2026·4 min read
Crypto mining — money from calculations and electricity
Bitcoin "miners" don't dig in the ground, but solve hard calculations with huge computers. Why and how.
Crypto mining means using powerful computers to solve mathematical problems that confirm the network's transactions. Whoever succeeds receives, as a reward, new coins.
Digital gold, real cost
Like extracting gold from the ground, mining requires effort and resources — here, a lot of electricity. Hence the criticism about consumption. Scarcity "through effort" is the digital version of gold mines.
