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Re:Bitcoin backlash as ‘miners’ stress power grids in Centra... by paulpauper on Sunday May 27, 2018 @02:30PM (#17168312)
bitcoin is already 65% off the highs. many other coins down 80% + more. I think that is pretty much close to imploded
Re:Bitcoin backlash as ‘miners’ stress power grids in Centra... by pmorici on Sunday May 27, 2018 @02:46PM (#17168411)
That has happened like half a dozen times before in the history of Bitcoin. Not really a sign of demise.
Re:Bitcoin backlash as ‘miners’ stress power grids in Centra... by arsginionio on Sunday May 27, 2018 @04:33PM (#17168966)
Bitcoin has a lot of interesting failure modes if the price falls too far.

People will start taking mining hardware offline. This will result in a lot of idle capacity. There will be a number of people capable of pulling off a 51% attack. And if the hash rate falls very quickly, say 50% in a week, the difficulty adjustment will be unable to keep up. This would have all sorts of nasty effects.

If the price goes to $4000 it should go to zero. That's assuming that the "investors" will behave sensibly, which is never a safe bet.

Re:Bitcoin backlash as ‘miners’ stress power grids in Centra... by sumedh on Sunday May 27, 2018 @09:29PM (#17170121)
> If the price goes to $4000 it should go to zero

Will you short bitcoin then?

Re:Bitcoin backlash as ‘miners’ stress power grids in Centra... by SlowRobotAhead on Sunday May 27, 2018 @03:55PM (#17168808)
How many times before did your mom ask you about it?

Precedent isn’t here.

But, if you are willing to say what happened in the yesterday will happen tomorrow, I assume you’ve taken a HELOC put on your house and invested in bitcoin - rift?

Re:Bitcoin backlash as ‘miners’ stress power grids in Centra... by pmorici on Sunday May 27, 2018 @04:27PM (#17168939)
You comment is hard to understand but, I'm not saying the near term price is an indicator of it's long term health I'm saying it historically isn't a prediction of anything.