Mining for virtual gold

Tech-savvy investors obsess about fluc­tu­a­tions in cryp­tocur­ren­cy mar­kets; con­sumers school them­selves on all the new­ly mint­ed coinage; and fin­tech firms fear the arrival of heavy-hand­ed reg­u­la­tion that could sti­fle inno­va­tion. But where does all the cryp­tocur­ren­cy come from in the first place? Cryp­to min­ing receives rel­a­tive­ly lit­tle atten­tion, but the sec­tor would be noth­ing with­out this ener­gy-hun­gry process