Speaking of mining, you also need to know what virgin bitcoins are.
A virgin bitcoin is a bitcoin that has just been mined or that has never transacted on the blockchain or that has a certified transaction history.
In the world of cryptocurrencies, many scams have occurred against bitcoin users, while other bitcoins have been used for illegal activities, theft or money laundering.
Since the blockchain is visible to all, it is possible to track the history of every single bitcoin by checking its transaction history. Which is difficult but real.
The authorities of a country could keep an eye on some wallets with bitcoin inside involved in criminal actions. In this case, if these were passed on the wallet of some exchange, they could be blocked or not accepted by the exchange.
This can create concerns and some financial intermediaries may not accept bitcoins of non-certified origin.
And here a Bitcoin without transactions is very useful and therefore its price will be higher than a normal bitcoin, in the order of 20 or 30 percent more.
The increased regulatory push drives the demand for virgin bitcoins.
Bitcoins without a clean history are not to be considered dirty or unused but we simply don’t know what their life was like before we had them in our wallet. Life that may have been extremely adventurous