What changed
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin shared a “fun fact of the day” on X, posting two detailed cost tables comparing Bitcoin mining economics to AI inference The numbers expose a clear gap: Bitcoin mining costs split roughly 50/50 between compute capex and electricity, while AI inference is dominated almost entirely by hardware capex That gap gives The post ETH Co-Founder Vitalik Breaks Down Bitcoin vs AI Compute Cost Structure appeared first on CoinGape
Why it matters
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