Mining aims to find new blocks, fuzzing tries to find new vulnerabilities. Both require wast amounts of computing power to explore the search space.
For a cryptographic hash function we believe there is no shortcut and you just have to bruteforce to find the desired prefix, in fuzzing you can have heuristics to guide you - like is the program crashing, was this function visited or did something else unexpected happen with this random input.
Mining aims to find new blocks, fuzzing tries to find new vulnerabilities. Both require wast amounts of computing power to explore the search space.
For a cryptographic hash function we believe there is no shortcut and you just have to bruteforce to find the desired prefix, in fuzzing you can have heuristics to guide you - like is the program crashing, was this function visited or did something else unexpected happen with this random input.