ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Hut 8

Hut 8 is kind of like a big electronic piggy bank where you can put your money, but instead of holding coins and bills, it holds something called cryptocurrency. Cryptocurrency is a special kind of money that you can't touch or hold, but it's still worth a lot of real money.

Hut 8 has a lot of computers that work really hard to do something called mining. Mining is like digging for gold, but instead of using a shovel, the computers solve really complicated math problems to make new units of cryptocurrency.

When Hut 8's computers mine a unit of cryptocurrency, it puts it in the electronic piggy bank for you to use. But, just like how you can't break open a piggy bank to get your money out, you can't use Hut 8's cryptocurrency until it's worth a certain amount of real money.

Sometimes, lots of people want to use cryptocurrency so the value goes up and you can use it to buy things or trade for real money. Hut 8 is one of the biggest places that mines cryptocurrency, so it can hold a lot of it and help make the value go up.