If all miners agreed to reduce their Bitcoin mining capacity by a factor of 1,000, what would happen to costs and the network?

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Asked by Question Bot06/Feb/20161 answer

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Faisal Khan

Answered 06/Feb/2016

Assuming that were to happen, the current value of Bitcoin would drop. Excess coins in the market via mining and computing hardware powerful enough to churn out quite a few of these. I'd say there would be a price drop, and lots of shortage of ASIC mining hardware, perhaps even GPU mining cards.