1) the bitcoin mining equipment = do the mining companies and their suppliers and their employees burn the money they earn?
2) and electrical energy used by miners = do the energy companies burn the money they earn?
3) all the time spent by bitcoiners looking at charts, trading bitcoins = do websites and exchanges and traders burn the money they earn?
4)and watching Antonopulos videos = does you tube burn the money they earn from ad revenues (a tiny bit of which come from admittedly a very few btc videos in the grand scheme) or the people that make the videos? or the video cameras?
I insist: money is not wealth, just tokens that people are willing to accept in exchange of wealth. All the things above destroy wealth, and move money from some people to other people.
Once again: some forms of money, like dollars, are so stable and widely accepted that people usually count them as wealth,
when evaluating the wealth owned by a person or company. That is a valid assumption
for those purposes.
But when one is discussing the wealth of the world (as in the above) or of a country, it is wrong to count the money owned by its inhabitants. (Except, in the case of a country, the money that the country could use to acquire wealth that is outside the country, without giving other wealth in return.)
Money is not wealth, it is a symbol we use to represent wealth.
If what you are stating is that BTC uses resources that could be used for something else.. then.... yeah... but have you had a good look around the world recently?
(personal note: In the future I may start to keep some of my wealth in cow form, I like cheese, and milk.......and steak.... oh and food for the veggie garden......plus I think I would rather enjoy owning a cow or three, they are pleasant)