Founded in the merry year of 2014, the Monero network artfully cloaks senders, recipients, and amounts in a romantic waltz of cryptography, whilst validating itself like a genteel aristocrat with a CPU-friendly proof-of-work algorithm titled RandomX. Meanwhile, Qubic, conjured by the illustrious Sergey “CFB” Ivancheglo, playfully exploits the very same hardware! Imagine that! It’s a Useful Proof of Work (uPoW), where half the computers multitask as diligent AI assistants, and the other half, unbeknownst to their innocent selves, are mining Monero during their lazy idle moments. ☕💻