Miners did lower hashrate when 1 Bitcoin < $300 - page 2.

Beliathon

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Quote from: jonald_fyookball on October 13, 2014, 12:26:11 PM

Quote from: Brangdon on October 13, 2014, 12:22:47 PM

Quote from: jonald_fyookball on October 13, 2014, 12:05:20 PM

Well that's exactly what's supposed to happen, isn't it?

Everytime a newbie says something like
"Bitcoin is doomed if the price drops too much",
people are quick to explain the hashrate would
drop out of competitiveness to find a new
equalibrium.

Well, if that just happened, then it is proof
the theory is correct.

The lowering of the hashrate is the problem. The lower the hashrate, the cheaper it is to attack Bitcoin.

Correct me if I'm wrong, it will only decrease linearly, not exponentially (unless of course price does the same).

Correct. To successfully attack bitcoin the hashrate would need to go back down to 2010 levels. Not going to happen, ever.

jonald_fyookball

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Core dev leaves me neg feedback #abuse #political

Quote from: Brangdon on October 13, 2014, 12:22:47 PM

Quote from: jonald_fyookball on October 13, 2014, 12:05:20 PM

Well that's exactly what's supposed to happen, isn't it?

Everytime a newbie says something like
"Bitcoin is doomed if the price drops too much",
people are quick to explain the hashrate would
drop out of competitiveness to find a new
equalibrium.

Well, if that just happened, then it is proof
the theory is correct.

The lowering of the hashrate is the problem. The lower the hashrate, the cheaper it is to attack Bitcoin.

Correct me if I'm wrong, it will only decrease linearly, not exponentially (unless of course price does the same).

Brangdon

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Quote from: jonald_fyookball on October 13, 2014, 12:05:20 PM

Well that's exactly what's supposed to happen, isn't it?

Everytime a newbie says something like
"Bitcoin is doomed if the price drops too much",
people are quick to explain the hashrate would
drop out of competitiveness to find a new
equalibrium.

Well, if that just happened, then it is proof
the theory is correct.

The lowering of the hashrate is the problem. The lower the hashrate, the cheaper it is to attack Bitcoin.

jonald_fyookball

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Core dev leaves me neg feedback #abuse #political

Well that's exactly what's supposed to happen, isn't it?

Everytime a newbie says something like
"Bitcoin is doomed if the price drops too much",
people are quick to explain the hashrate would
drop out of competitiveness to find a new
equalibrium.

Well, if that just happened, then it is proof
the theory is correct.

btckold24

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I know personally I decided to sell my 2x s1's when btc dropped - why keep mining when I'm spending 2x what im making in just energy. It may be good if btc sits around 300 so that the difficulty stops climbing so dam fast.

TrailingComet

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It's logical that they do so when prices fall steeply but surprisingly appears to have rarely happened so far. Would be curious to know if there have been other stretches when the hash rate dropped.

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Miners did lower hashrate when 1 Bitcoin < $300, see chart

Apparantly, miners do adjust operational expense depending on Bitcoin commercial price.

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