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Board Economics
Re: What happens if bitcoin price falls below the cost of mining it?
by
South Park
on 28/07/2018, 19:15:56 UTC
Would bitcoin be able to recover? Are we safe since 80% of bitcoin has already been mined?

I remember it happened once in 2011 (https://www.themarysue.com/price-bitcoin-falls-below-mining/amp/).
Nothing significant will happen, the miners will have two options, the first is to keep mining despite the fact the current price of bitcoin does not cover the current costs, this is not a problem for big miners since they probably have a lot of cash stored just in case this happened, the second option is to mine something else that is more profitable.