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Re:The Ethereum merge is done by ajross on Thursday September 15, 2022 @01:00PM (#32855032)
> If nobody mines the coin dies.

Exactly! Which is why we expect the energy expended on mining PoWETH to drop to zero as the coin dies due to lack of interest, which was the upthread point you were arguing against.

Re:The Ethereum merge is done by squeaky-clean on Thursday September 15, 2022 @01:19PM (#32855339)
I think their argument against this is that while that's the logical conclusion, trusting crypto to follow any sort of logic is not that reliable.

It's possible to justify reasons to continue. Bad reasons. But how many miners care?