Vitalik Buterin contrasts Bitcoin’s power costs with AI’s 76% capital share

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has compared Bitcoin mining with AI inference, sharing cost estimates that put electricity at 45.9% of mining expenses and computing capital expenditure at approximately 76% of inference costs. In an Oct. 17 X post, Buterin described…

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