Bitcoin's hashpower won't death spiral, security won't be deprecated
Of course it will be. Of course, in the long-term, like decades. Simply because: There is no way to hide consequences of lack of free market
Even in such a good thing like Bitcoin. Or maybe especially in such a good thing...
is this you kurt ?
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My thinking on that @jk_14:
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and my favourite was: "Mining is slowly leaving the pleb world behind and industrializing"
Don't even think that 10-20 years later the corporations will be mining at loss, "in the name of Bitcoin"... :)
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Many have mined at a loss, contingent upon current hashpower, energy inputs, and BTC price, or more accurately, their economy of scale. The access to capital thing (and at what %) playing a big role. Governments don't have these constraints. It's difficult for me to believe that Oman, Russia, etc, are building out mining facilities to capture 6.25 BTC per day with 1% of hashpower. The value isn't there this late in BTC's issuance, even with BTC at $5M per coin, but it is there with censorship resistance of however many billions (trillions eventually) they can fit inside a single block. Too, there's no way any viable tax haven doesn't mine in a cashless world where the on/off ramps are surveilled via CBDCs. Just trying to think big here, bigger than inscriptions and sidechain crypto speculation.
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