I copied to Ted Nelson, who replied with this, "Thanks for sending-- It absolutely makes no sense. All Bitcoin miners do the same thing in general, with the same result, a data structure anyone can check. Why the state should care about their particular method is baffling.

Ted Nelson (who coined the phrase hypertext for the newbies) by the way, has an amazing lecture on bitcoin here: Computers for Cynics #7, "How Bitcoin Actually Works.".