mined

v. to have taken minerals, coal, or precious stones out of the ground.

v. the past tense of 'mine', referring to the extraction of minerals or other geological materials from the earth.

“Workers mined silver in these mountains for hundreds of years.”

“Historically, the local population mined tin from the riverbeds long before industrial machinery was introduced to the region.”

v. to have used powerful computers to create new digital money like Bitcoin.

v. the past tense of 'mine' in a computing context, referring to the process of using hardware to verify transactions and generate new units of cryptocurrency.

“He mined a lot of Bitcoin back when it was still very easy to do.”

“As the difficulty of the algorithm increased, the amount of energy required for each mined block grew exponentially.”

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