The money comes from folks who want verified software and are willing to pay for it. The greatest failure of crypto thus far is convincing people it’s a specula

The money comes from folks who want verified software and are willing to pay for it. The greatest failure of crypto thus far is convincing people it’s a speculators market. This had to happen when the only outcome of a mine was “a hash starting with a lot of 0’s and a couple hundred bytes we can all agree on”. Make mining produce something legitimately valuable and that is no longer necessary.