> If someone can figure out how to do crypto without burning through thousands of CPU-hours of compute... I will freely admit that I'm only passingly familiar

> If someone can figure out how to do crypto without burning through thousands of CPU-hours of compute... I will freely admit that I'm only passingly familiar with many of the concepts of cryptocurrency, but - isn't that precisely the point? If coins are easy to mine, then they're valueless. I must be missing something...