💬 WHY IS IT CALLED MINING IF THERE’S NO DIRT OR GOLD?

De una abeja digital a un dólar que no duerme

Two years ago, I just wanted quick money.

Simple as that.

I downloaded Honeygain —an app that pays you for sharing your internet connection — and thought:

“Done. I’m an investor now.”

HAHAHAHAHA

Then I opened Binance.

I didn’t understand a thing,but I was fascinated watching green and red numberslike a miniature version of the New York Stock Exchange.

I followed a chain of signs that said:

“convert,” “withdraw,” “ARS,” “stablecoin,” “token”

And with every click, I got further from the money and closer to the mystery.

Suddenly, I wasn’t chasing cash anymore —

I wanted to understand what that thing was, the one that kept moving.

That’s where my curiosity for crypto began.

No courses, no mentors, no promises of financial freedom.

Just a kind of digital archaeology —

where miners don’t dig up dirt, but blocks of information.

And then I stumbled upon this question:

If there’s no gold, what exactly is being “mined”?

More than a year went by before I crossed paths with all this again.

But this time, I wasn’t chasing quick money.

It happened while I was studying and working on what I actually practice: digital marketing.

That’s when crypto reappeared — disguised as products, platforms, and campaigns.

And when I saw one of those dashboards with green and red candles,

the tiny digital bee from Honeygain came back to me.

That poor thing brought me

0.0000000000000000001 USD every 24 hours.

Or something like one times ten to the minus twenty-three, give or take.

At times, I thought it wasn’t paying off

because my internet plan was always the bare minimum:

3 MB.

(If there were a cheaper one, that’s the one I’d pick 😭)

And I realized that, without knowing it, I’d been my first digital miner.

That little bee was the first symbol of something I didn’t yet understand: the idea of generating value by sharing energy — without anyone having to explain it in a three-thousand-dollar course.

Over time, I realized that marketing also teaches you economics —without meaning to.

When you get paid in dollars, you quickly learn to survive among payment gateways, wallets, and exchange rates.

First, you convert your USD to USDT,

then to pesos,

then to reality.

And before you know it, you discover what a stablecoin really is:

a digital dollar that doesn’t live in a bank,

but in a network that never sleeps.

And the most incredible part is that its value stays stable.

One USDT —except for tiny fluctuations— is worth the same as a real dollar.

It doesn’t rise, it doesn’t fall, it doesn’t scare you at midnight.

It’s made to store value or move it around, without banks, ridiculous fees, or business hours.

It’s basically a dollar in crypto form.

As simple as choosing between the blue rate and the MEP.

And since many of us got the MEP taken away (bastards),

well… you go with USDT.

And that’s when everything started to make sense. That invisible network that holds values,

transactions, and promises —

runs on something far more physical than it seems.

Miners don’t dig up dirt. They dig up information.

Each machine tries to solve a kind of mathematical puzzle.

Not to win a medal, but to validate transactions and keep the network alive.

The first one to solve it records the block and receives a reward in newly minted Bitcoin.

That’s how, every ten minutes, the system updates and breathes.

There are no bosses, no banks, no offices.

Just thousands of computers working at the same time,

checking each other to make sure no one cheats.

Each new block is like a page in the largest ledger in the world —

where everyone can look, but no one can erase.

That’s the blockchain.

And that’s when I understood something no course had ever told me:

it’s not magic or volatility — it’s collective coordination.

A system where trust isn’t placed in people,

but in code and energy.

And that code also decides how much “currency” can exist.

There’s no one printing more just because they felt like it.

Every four years, the reward is cut in half.

That’s why there will only ever be 21 million bitcoins.

Never more than that.

All of this that seems invisible —the lights, the calculations, the glowing screens—

rests on three simple things:

energy, network, and consensus.

Energy, because without electricity nothing gets validated.

Network, because thousands of nodes keep it alive.

And consensus, because everyone agrees to follow the same rules without knowing each other.

That’s what keeps the system beating while the world sleeps.

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And to think it all started with a digital bee.

Sip by sip, without knowing it, it led me to understand a USDT.

And if one little bee could take me that far —

imagine everything else there is to discover.

Today, there are more than 20,000 cryptocurrencies, tokens, and stablecoins circulating across different ecosystems.

Each with its own logic, purpose, and story.

You don’t need to understand them all today.

In upcoming editions of Burning Crypto News,

we’ll put together a mini glossary explaining the differences between them —

because understanding can also be a slow and beautiful act.

If today’s post felt like too much, that’s okay.

Print it, underline it, sketch it.

Get into the system and try to understand it —

even if you’re not ready to trade yet.

When the time comes,

you’ll be ready.

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