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= Solution

Letting $t\to\infty$ in the <Burkholder-Davis-Gundy inequalities> with exponent two gives absolute constants $c,C>0$ such that
$$
c\,\mathbb E[X]_\infty
\leq\mathbb E\sup_{t\geq0}|X_t|^2
\leq C\,\mathbb E[X]_\infty.
$$
Since $[X]$ is nondecreasing, $\mathbb E[X]_\infty=\sup_t\mathbb E[X]_t$. Thus one of the two quantities in the question is finite exactly when the other is.

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