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The proceeds overwhelmingly don't go to miners. They go to electricity utilities and the upstream value chain of those businesses. Because the cost of electricity is always nearly identical to the proceeds. Basically, bitcoin is a way to turn perfectly good dollars into an extra load on the grid for no good reason.
I have a friend who mines bitcoin...but only in the winter, because he has electrical heating anyways, so there's no net new electrical load.