The New Mining

Bitcoin mining turned electricity into money. Knowledge mining turns frontier compute into insights — and the ore body only gets richer as the tools get better. Ten years ago, mining meant running SHA-256 over blocks of transactions until you found a hash with enough leading zeros. You burned electricity, wore out your GPUs, and if you got lucky, you got some bitcoin. The output was economic value, extracted from nothing but computation and time. ...

July 27, 2026 · 7 min · Napat Boonsaeng