After some thought: I think you may be confusing “bitcoin mining” as in using gpu to mine other crypto that gets auto-converted to bitcoin with actually mining

After some thought: I think you may be confusing “bitcoin mining” as in using gpu to mine other crypto that gets auto-converted to bitcoin with actually mining bitcoin. The former is popular on gpu, looks the same from the user perspective (to the point of users only needing a bitcoin wallet and receiving payouts only in bitcoin), but doesn’t actually mine any bitcoin underneath - just other cryptos that get transparently exchanged into btc.