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Re:Is This the End of Crypto? by arcticbull on Thursday November 17, 2022 @02:17PM (#33644131)
> You couldn't trade them normally with the miners off but you could start mining up the day after.

So if we turn off all the bitcoin miners, it wouldn't be possible to transact. All you could do is look at it, like a read-only excel sheet.

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Re:Is This the End of Crypto? by snapcaster on Thursday November 17, 2022 @04:08PM (#33645724)
But you understand why this hasn't happened yet right? if everyone else turned off their miners, I for one would be interested in money and turn one on
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