Quote from: deepskydiver on Today at 10:40:55 AM

Just wondering if anyone has noticed a trend of longer block times when the price drops. I presume some proportion of miners become unprofitable. And that of those - some might need to convert to fiat in the short term to cover costs and so pause mining.

I think amongst everyone in the crypto industry, the only demographic that never really at the very least is vocal about leaving their base is the mining sector. Like sure, there's going to be a couple of detractors here and there, this is a business venture after all and not everyone's going to weather the pressures of the market all the time, but relatively speaking, most of the people who have started mining as early as GPU mining was a thing still stuck around and remained operational even now.

Might just be the case where these people's going to be the last to stand before 2140 comes around and the last bitcoin block gets mined lol. And even then I'm pretty sure they'll serve as validators of transactions, with that kind of security there's no reason why you'll have to leave your post as a miner.