the.com/mining
Asking the earth, very loudly, to hand over what it spent eons hiding.
means Extracting valuable minerals, metals, or fuels from the ground — or, lately, solving math puzzles to earn cryptocurrency.
from From Old French miner, to dig a tunnel, rooted in Latin mina; the digging sense was burrowing through language long before crypto borrowed it.
Canary checkCaged birds once detected lethal mine gases first.
Bitcoin twistCrypto mining computes, never touches a shovel.
Deep downSome gold mines descend nearly four kilometers.