When specializing in a field, it is common to use and come across acronyms. In some cases, acronyms break the perimeter of the field and start being used by people at large. It is handy to say DNA rather than Deoxyribonucleic acid, so it is no wonder why many acronyms populate our everyday language.
In many cases, however, acronyms are a small barrier for people becoming familiar with a field.
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Summary. The gold of the 21st century is not made of atoms but bits. Old terms acquire new meanings, while society steadily walks towards post-modernism.
The term mining might evoke ancient times images: gold diggers of the 19th centuries rushing to be the first one to discover a gold vein, or in more recent times it might remind you of the pixellated word of Minecraft (and dozens similar).
In Bitcoin, mining is not performed by digging a hole with a shovel but instead by computing cryptographic hash functions as quickly as possible in order to find our gold: the solution to a crypto puzzle.