In the context of blockchain gaming, human mining is a play-to-earn mechanism in which players earn cryptocurrency directly from the protocol, either newly-minted or sourced from transaction fees. Not all blockchains with human mining use proof-of-play for consensus, but all proof-of-play blockchains utilize human mining. The term was originally conceived by the Huntercoin team, whose game utilized the concept[1]; some outside the gaming industry now also use it to refer to the use of humans to secure blockchains in general[2].