[rboling91]

The volume of tips would have to increase drastically. In any case, the volume would depend on the price. Slightly off point, it might not be completely unrealistic to imagine a world in which miners do not derive their main source of income from mining. Perhaps miners could running mining programs on SoCs during the day while the miners themselves work other/additional jobs. While the number of miners mining in this way would have to be very large in order for this configuration to be possible, should this be the case, miners wouldn't be nearly as financially dependent on mining, and they could be more immune to fluctuations in the price