ETH Co-Founder Vitalik Breaks Down Bitcoin vs AI Compute Cost Structure

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 Brea