Quote from: Kyraishi on October 06, 2019, 01:10:31 AM

Mining usually requires the users to do work (in BTC mining's case, you need to have mining cards/GPUs and electricity) to produce blocks and then earn coins via that. Example of coins that you can mine would be ETH, some ERC-20 tokens, XRP, BTC predominantly.

Staking, on the other hand, doesn't require you to use your computer or your electricity, it just requires you to have some coins that in turn you would lock up (stake) and then the more coins you have staked, the bigger chance of producing blocks and collecting the block reward.

You don't mine btc with GPU's only erc20 tokens. Eth is a erc20 token not a coin. You do not produce blocks through mining. Mining is like the lottoa but to increase your change of winning you can increase your hashrate. This is why people no longer solo mine and mine in pools because if you solo mine you make never solve the block first and never get those 25 btc.