... 10000 individuals, they wont all of a sudden agree to stop helping
Of course they dont, that would be a great foolishness from the miners' side(if I can call them "miners"). Cause such companies as B.C. will lost every trace of confidence in Elastic platform(in platform generally, although the situations was caused by community in this case).
I'm talking about unauthorized and authorized global failure of the platform. How such big clients can be protected from this? This is the relevant question from the category of trust. Category, which should be excluded by decentralization, blockchain, cryptocurrencies and etc.
i see one flaw here, you see company B.C. Doesnt make a contract with elastic project but instead when in need buys computing resources timley limited to XEL bounty it offers. Elastic is a trustless system, as such no need for B.C. To trust anything other than elastic platform executing task correctly.