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by lifty 1958 days ago
What’s more likely to happen is to have users fork off to a different PoW algorithm or even PoS, rendering the mining equipment of miners useless. If the economic majority of users run the new fork software, the network effects and value of Bitcoin gets preserved. This is how the segwit movement managed to pressure miners into activating the segwit soft fork.