If it really becomes difficult to adjust these possible 7%, can we expect a next cycle with even higher rates, as there will be fewer machines mining!?
Your question is not clear, please elaborate.
I was referring to the difficulty adjustment. With such a high adjustment we can expect even higher fees for transactions.
I believe what the halving could cause is an increase in the value of Bitcoin, as miners will want to settle with higher values so as not to spend as much BTC.
hard to tell.
first off. smaller block counts and or higher block counts in first 500 blocks move a lot.
big pools can fuck around with 10-20% hash rate by over or under clocking.
right now they could be overclocking as they are still getting good fees.
and the next 7 days they can back off.
Foundry makes 48 blocks they can up or down say 40 or 48 or 64 we can see what they do. zero stats a full black box with 33% of the hash.