Coming from a long line of miner families from my father's side (my hundreds of times great great parents used to be dwarven miners some time before the defeat

Coming from a long line of miner families from my father's side (my hundreds of times great great parents used to be dwarven miners some time before the defeat of the Sauron) I must say the concept of Bitcoin and gold mining are not that different. It is just the tools which have changed.