user43147: If someone doesn't want to mine, this means that they don't create coinbase transactions. Coinbase transactions are necessary for every transaction.
Can one spend their bitcoin without having to mine?

user5757: Mining is necessary to create bitcoins, which happens with a coinbase transaction.  But they can be transferred from person to person after that without mining.  (Mining is still used to confirm those transactions, to ensure they cannot be reversed later; but the people making the transactions aren't responsible for that part of it.)
Think about the following analogy.  Regular money is created with a printing press.  But you yourself don't need a printing press in order to make transactions; somebody gives you money, and you give it to someone else.  Sure, at some time in the past, someone had to print that money, but that isn't your concern.

43147: <p>If someone doesn't want to mine, this means that they don't create coinbase transactions. Coinbase transactions are necessary for every transaction.</p>

<p>Can one spend their bitcoin without having to mine?</p>
 5757: <p>Mining is necessary to <em>create</em> bitcoins, which happens with a coinbase transaction.  But they can be transferred from person to person after that without mining.  (Mining is still used to <em>confirm</em> those transactions, to ensure they cannot be reversed later; but the people making the transactions aren't responsible for that part of it.)</p>

<p>Think about the following analogy.  Regular money is created with a printing press.  But you yourself don't need a printing press in order to make transactions; somebody gives you money, and you give it to someone else.  Sure, at some time in the past, someone had to print that money, but that isn't your concern.</p>
