You're technically correct, but try explaining all of this to a lay person or politician with no interest in mathematics or computer science. "Solving complex math problems" is a good enough explanation for them.

Majjin

This is not "complex math problem solving". It's just trial and error by putting a value in a pretty simple hash function algo which can be executed by hand. An extreme case of a complex math problem is Fermat's Last Theorem which took Andrew Wile's decades to solve or supercomputers solving difficult calculation problems.

billiam

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Gian

I really don't get why people are so prickly about this. Complex is subjective, but miners DO solve a math problem: find X, where X is a number as an input to a function where the output of a function is < a difficulty requirement.

It is solved via brute force, but that doesn't make it any less solved.