I like that analogy: “setting a lottery number” - that feels more accurate than the typical way the lay media explains mining, usually a variation of “solving l

I like that analogy: “setting a lottery number” - that feels more accurate than the typical way the lay media explains mining, usually a variation of “solving lots of puzzles”. “Puzzle” implies some cognition is required to come to a solution - not that effort is being wasted by brute-forcing something.