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actually the short term changes in hashrate that are small like the one that we had recently during the weeks following the halving are a lot more complicated than just being affected by the price alone. for example it is possible that some miners had old equipment that they had to shut down but then they bought newer ASICs and came back hence the fall and then the rise of the same size.
this may also sound weird but i think it was possible that a mining farm was experimenting with difficulty manipulation. i posted the picture in the other topic in main board once, if you look at how hashrate dropped you can see it dropped very close to the adjustment and stayed low until difficulty dropped then went back up as difficulty went down.
This can be a possibility but chances are the halving of the block rewards is the cause for most small miners to shut their operations down and I think only a few of them are upgrading their rigs or even try to compete with the big boys with the halve rewards. This small term drop in hashrate for me was just a sign that smaller mining farms maximized their time before the halving occurred just before they shut their operations down. And I doubt that even if some of them tried to manipulate the hashrate just to drop the mining difficulty because only the big mining farms will benefit from it if this happen.