It costs less to mine gold than it does to mine Bitcoin

[bitbunnny]

It's not surprising that it can cost less to mine gold but the environmental effect of mining gold is just too much handle. Plus, these huge companies who mines gold does not even restore the places that they've mined on. I would still mine bitcoin since it is more valuable and more environmental friendly.

Unfortunately both, Bitcoin mining and gold mining have negative effect on environment. Regarding Bitcoin some alternative energy sources could be the solution but I'm not sure there is some sustainable method when it comes to gold mining.
If I have to choose I would pick Bitcoin mining, new technologies are always looking for new solutions and long term are more profitable and acceptable.

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[MonsterV]

Either of the two, both of them has a negative impact on the environment. Mining gold can affect the loss of biodiversity, erosion, and it's just destroying the land. Addition to that are the limited gold. In mining bitcoin, it consumes a lot of energy and create tons of co2 that is obviously bad for the environment. But think objectively, when you mine gold, there are laws regulated by the government regarding it. It's much harder compare to mining bitcoin. There are already a lot of problems in mining because of illegal mining, and it's basically destroying the environment big time. Will you still add to that?

More or less so, in my country there are many mines, especially coal mining. Coal is not much different from gold, where the land must be dredged deep to get what is sought. In fact, I compared the conditions before the existence of gold mining or other mining conditions when the mining had been built, enough to make me sad to see it. Nature that was once green, is now arid and has large holes filled with project trucks that carry mining products.

Mining does not always operate, when the search is started, the mining will be closed. And stupidly, the big holes they dredged up were not closed again which eventually became quite dangerous puddles.

Here I start thinking, why does everyone criticize bitcoin miners, even though bitcoin mining in my opinion is more appreciative of nature. There is no natural damage, I'm sure if the problem is about electricity, in the future there will be new innovations in electricity efficiency. Mining bitcoin is also universal, where everyone can mine without regulation, without the word illegal. I hope that in the future people can realize this and start mining bitcoin.

[prehisto]

It costs less to mine gold than it does to mine Bitcoin

The inefficiency of mining Bitcoin laid bare… Over the past few weeks, the criticism aimed at Bitcoin mining has grown. Chiefly for the fact that Bitcoin uses a lot of electricity to mine

Read more:
https://www.trackcoinmarket.com/crypto-news/37781/costs-gold-bitcoin

Would love to read more about this topic but the paper on this matter is not cheap.
The main question here how they calculated the cost per dollar of gold because there are many different gold mines out there with different yields.

[cramcram21]

It costs less to mine gold than it does to mine Bitcoin

The inefficiency of mining Bitcoin laid bare… Over the past few weeks, the criticism aimed at Bitcoin mining has grown. Chiefly for the fact that Bitcoin uses a lot of electricity to mine

Read more:
https://www.trackcoinmarket.com/crypto-news/37781/costs-gold-bitcoin

Yeah sure but it cost more work to mine gold than to mine Bitcoin.
And not to mention that it would take sometime and a lot of worker just to mine gold than to mine a crypto.
And you could mine crypto anywhere you just have to set up your mining rigs and have an internet unlike gold you need to find some spot to work efficiently.

[worldofcoins]

I don't think this is a problem. Just bitcoin mining will continue to engage those to whom it will be cost effective. If you use solar panels or modern windmills, that is, renewable energy sources, the high energy costs will not be a problem and at the cost of production, gold mining will again be much more expensive than mining Bitcoin.

Renewable energy actually does make it much better compared to mining with paid electricity. Coming to the gold mine, In future, it will be done by machines.
So yes you can say for now you can say.
Mining Gold < Mining Bitcoin (With electricity) && Mining Gold > Mining Bitcoin (With Solar Panel)

[Bitcoinqubit]

It costs less to mine gold than it does to mine Bitcoin

The inefficiency of mining Bitcoin laid bare… Over the past few weeks, the criticism aimed at Bitcoin mining has grown. Chiefly for the fact that Bitcoin uses a lot of electricity to mine

Read more:
https://www.trackcoinmarket.com/crypto-news/37781/costs-gold-bitcoin

its done to make it more decentralized rather centerlized which mean if it was easy to generate bitcoin it wass contolred by big boys only...

alot of the move to solar power

[Bitcoinqubit]

It costs less to mine gold than it does to mine Bitcoin

The inefficiency of mining Bitcoin laid bare… Over the past few weeks, the criticism aimed at Bitcoin mining has grown. Chiefly for the fact that Bitcoin uses a lot of electricity to mine

Read more:
https://www.trackcoinmarket.com/crypto-news/37781/costs-gold-bitcoin

its done to make it more decentralized rather centerlized which mean if it was easy to generate bitcoin it wass contolred by big boys only...

alot of them move to solar power

[coinbitcoin91]

First of all, it is necessary to mention that the opportunities to extract bitcoin are available for every person in the world, but to extract gold, it is difficult not only because of the lack of resources, but also because of the lack of a personal source as such.  For bitcoin you only need equipment and knowledge.

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[antisocial77]

the fact is crypto haters manipulate people with those lies.first off all, how can we mine gold? is it possible? but we can all mine bitcoin if we want with buying not so expensive pc or mining stuffs.

[Schirer]

Completely not true.
First of all, it is very very difficult to compute such thing.
Yea, you can take some huge mine and calculate the resources needed, but then you have to include the price swings also the resources needed to move and sell the gold.

Not to mention countless other factors impacting gold mining, the human cost , the deforestation, the mercury poisoning, tribe wars, corruption environmental damage from other chemicals and so on.

[HELLOFF]

Of course, today anyone can mine Bitcoin, because this activity is much simpler and more affordable for every inhabitant of our planet, unlike gold mining.  You can mine Bitcoin at home, equipped even in the basement with an appropriate farm, but in order to do gold mining you need to not only travel to the appropriate country, but you also need to get certain permissions.

[killat]

Even when the gold standard was a thing though, have you ever considered why gold is expensive? Easy one, because it's hard to find. But how we determine the exact price of gold? We don't, we just decide it.

Gold, paper money, bitcoin, oil, stocks, all tradeable assets can be and are manipulated by the big players so that they can profit. Markets are like poker in a way. How much does a pair of eights cost? If you have 10$ worth of chips and 3 people before you raised you are most likely folding. But if you are the chip leader you are definetely playing a pair of 8s, you decide how much they cost and, most likely, profit from them.

[Pepz79]

Bitcoin mining's getting more and more expensive

[pixie85]

Try mining gold without harming the environment. You can't even if it will cost you less. Also you can't mine gold just like that. Most places where you can do it already belong to someone.

If you mine bitcoin using renewable energy like it was mentioned by several people in this thread you are doing it cheap and without harming the environment. Sometimes cheap vs expensive is not the only thing that matters.

[Herbet Fry]

Try mining gold without harming the environment. You can't even if it will cost you less. Also you can't mine gold just like that. Most places where you can do it already belong to someone.

If you mine bitcoin using renewable energy like it was mentioned by several people in this thread you are doing it cheap and without harming the environment. Sometimes cheap vs expensive is not the only thing that matters.

Yep. Then you still need to pay wages and buy safety equipment then have engineers to maintain and repair everything so you don't get sued. You have to provide medical care as part of the contract for workers as well most likely. You need to buy land and hope there is gold on it. When mining bitcoin you know it is a guarantee that you will mine something but with mining gold there is no guarantee that you will mine even 1 single gram.

[Schirer]

Right. I would add here only one important thing for all people. This is a simple comfort. You do not have to be a miner in a traditional understanding of the world. Yes, you will have to pay for the equipment, but further, you will earn constantly. It is worth doing, and in a year, it starts bringing your profits as the expenses are already covered.

It is not as easy as you think, the ASICS are very expensive and very small of population can actually afford it.
On a side note, in my country ASICS are banned, i kid you not.. they found that they are emitting unsafe radiation levels and are considered not safe.

[jake zyrus]

It costs less to mine gold than it does to mine Bitcoin

The inefficiency of mining Bitcoin laid bare… Over the past few weeks, the criticism aimed at Bitcoin mining has grown. Chiefly for the fact that Bitcoin uses a lot of electricity to mine

Read more:
https://www.trackcoinmarket.com/crypto-news/37781/costs-gold-bitcoin

But mining gold is not as easy as bitcoin. Mining gold needs man power and also equipments. And you cannot just mine gold if you feel like to. There's a lot of process needed to be done in order to mine gold. You have to go through the government sectors. The damage that mining gold can cause in the environment, is much heavier than bitcoin.

You say, it cost 'less', but there are a lot of factors need to be consider also not just the cost.