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Re:BTC Endgame by hanniabu on Friday February 19, 2021 @07:04PM (#26199748)
Miners don't control the price but they control the upgrade. Why would the miner vote (with their hashpower) to upgrade to a PoS consensus and kill their business?
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Re:BTC Endgame by shawnz on Friday February 19, 2021 @07:36PM (#26200056)
They don't control the upgrade: new miners can simply come in to take the free rewards on the new coin if the existing ones refuse to do it.

All that matters is the market's valuation of the currency: it would be irrational for miners to do anything except expand until their costs nearly match the reward.

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