I don't fear fuds or regulators directly, what I fear immensely is that they may scared away miners. With current difficulty level it may be death spiral( huge difficulty against low hash rate ). To stop this core developers may be forced to hard fork. This may be the end of fireworks for long time..
But I see also light in the tunnel, but I am obliged to stay silent about that at least temporarily
Don't worry. Megafarms have no choice but to keep mining as long as (data center cost) < (price of the coin mined). Even hobby miners have preordered gear that is yet to arrive at their door.
Mining ain't stopping any time soon.