The mining part doesn't belong in the analogy but I think the perspective is dead on. Here's what you're missing: What is rare about the results produced in m

The mining part doesn't belong in the analogy but I think the perspective is dead on. Here's what you're missing: What is rare about the results produced in mining is something that we humans would have control over, not the aliens. Aliens showing up with literal alien technology is one of the few things that might get a cryptocurrency to update their PoW someway or another.