What is crypto mining?
A plain-English explanation of how mining secures a blockchain, why it earns you coins, and where Quantus fits in.
The one-sentence version
Crypto mining is using a computer to do the work that keeps a blockchain running, and getting paid in that coin for doing it. Your machine competes to produce the next valid block; when the network accepts a block, its reward goes to whoever produced it.
Why the work is needed
A blockchain has no central server deciding which transactions are real. Instead, producing a block requires provable computational work, which makes rewriting history prohibitively expensive. That is what "proof of work" means: the chain trusts the version of history that the most work stands behind.
Where the coins come from
Each block carries a reward: newly issued coins plus the fees of the transactions it includes. That reward is the incentive to mine, and it is how new coins enter circulation. On Quantus the reward shrinks a little with every block, because each block pays a fixed fraction of the supply still unmined.
Where Quantus fits
Quantus is a proof-of-work coin mined on GPUs. Its proof of work, QPoW, is built on the Poseidon2 hash, and every transaction is signed with ML-DSA, a post-quantum signature scheme, so the chain is built to stay secure once large quantum computers exist. You mine it with a graphics card and earn QTC.