The beauty is - you can add your own text ( called Txn by money minded) - to the problem set. .. there is a little fees for doing that. .. but it is so much fun when you see 100K nerdy supercomputers chugging along to make your text immutable. .. I mean you are literally testing them with your own expressions ..
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The entire exercise is NOT just for fun. .. It is a practice ( and reward) system for NERDY SUPERCOMPUTERs to break the cryptography. ... yes .. the whole point of POW is to take baby steps to break SHA256. .. with gradually increasing difficulty. ...