Isn't the number of Bitcoin miners already going down since the bear market? Or is it rising now?
At a time when the price of BTC was already very low, while mining operational costs jumped high, many miners then took a break and chose not to continue mining again. This is done because the outcome is bigger than the income.
With the recent halving of block rewards, the incentive will be lower than previous for miner.
And after halving later, the amount of BTC that can be filtered will decrease. And there is a possibility that if it is operational normally it will rise again. If the number of coins mined decreases, the price of BTC goes down, while operational costs go up, then what is likely to happen is a reduction in the number of miners.
See. most members in this thread also consider that there will be a decrease amount of the miners after the halving. Personally I also think yes, it will decrease. However, who knows? Crypto is sometimes full of surprise and we do not know what kind of surprise we will face in the later moment.