That's what I'm saying. The Pavlovian response is seeing the prompt/push notification and with the promise of a $20-30 shitcoin, you have to click through and wait, giving your attention to shitty gaming ads for like a minute before you can actually start "mining", if that's even what it actually is. Just numbers on a screen. So you're paying with your attention and that's the actual energy and "proof of work".

Just busy work while the simulation hums. Or training us for a future of meaningless work and getting paid in nothing to buy worthless crap from the ads your shown doing nothing.