It seems interesting.
And before deicing something, it seems that you must have considerations why you support your son to do this even you both are new to this.
By the way, have you considered why exactly your son is loving to do this activity
Did he read something about mining in a site which is there are some kids that are doing so and they an earn much money?
or other expectations to have to him itself?
Because this is something new to you both, so the best way is to let him learn about this exactly, how this actually work, don't forget also to tell about the probabilities coming later, the risks, and also the profits.
Even you are not meaning to have profits, but at least, you need to set a goal, not only about loving numbers.
So, maybe you can guide him to set the exact goal of this activity.
And of course, you also need to join learning in order to focus more and understand ore about mining word, cryptocurrency, and other crypto activities.
Thank you.
He's on the autism spectrum. He is fascinated with numbers. He's 10 and reads books about java scripting, and I have no idea how to help him with this... I honestly don't know why he's interested in this and wish it was something I could teach him about, but that's not the hand I was delt. We got a small rig up and running, and now he's telling me about all different crypto currencies, and I have learned more about etheryum than I ever wanted to know along with some book he wants to get to learn how to program contracts on etheryum.... I really don't know what he's talking about.
We did a few projects related to this, an not all are crypto related, but on my level... He helped me build a table for the garage for the equipment to rest on, reviewed wire diagrams. I have a solar set up in the house, so we built a 12v circuit for the rig.
He enjoyed writing the bat file to execute the BFG script.