Anybody substantiate this?

Text from the article: "Bitcoin is a digital currency with no centralized bank. Instead, transactions are confirmed by huge banks of computers, run by people called miners. As an incentive to set up these facilities, the system periodically rewards the miners with freshly-minted bitcoins worth hundreds of thousands of dollars."

People? Taking coins home in their pockets??

I realize a lot of journalism these days is AI generated. But the even used this tidbit in the headline.

Can you explain any of this?