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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: If there's a huge drop in hash power..
by
skooter
on 05/04/2014, 03:40:14 UTC
If btc has a 90% drop in a short period of time, a lot of miners would turn off their equipment

History shows that statement is false.

Since the introduction in ASICs, there's never been a drop big enough where energy cost of mining > value of btc produced.

You can bet those datacenters spending thousands of dollars in electricity a day will turn off their ASICs if it turns unprofitable.