Can You Answer This - When You Solve A Digital Currency Equation, What Is The Math For?

When You Solve A Digital Currency Equation, What Is The Math For?

I get it, you solve the equation, you get a "good cookie" byway of digital currency. But what is the math for? What are you solving the problem for?  You get a piece of digital currency but why do the math? Why put together a super computer to solve big equations? 

I get it. You are incentivized through fictitious money to do so. But WHY SOLVE THE PROBLEM? WHO GETS THE ANSWER?

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