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by mastermojo 1948 days ago
In the free market people will mine bitcoin if it's profitable. That is, if bitcoin is valuable enough and if energy is cheap enough and if the overall network hash rate is low enough.

Any changes to network hash power, bitcoin prices and energy cost may cause miners to scale down operations and lower overall network hash. Then at a certain network hash rate it will become profitable again.