Once you understand a couple of basic topics, mining is easy.
Yes I was playing with mining. The coin I was investigating is related to a blockchain of permanent posts.
vipsumo.com shows posts that are unable to be deleted. Each are paid for using the crypto. Useful? That will depend on how censored the internet becomes.
I have also been playing with the idea of livestreaming - but all you get on those platforms is "likes"
- likes don't pay the bills.