trifith comments on Why bitcoin? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: trifith 02 April 2015 07:02:24PM 0 points [-]

Only if the miners are all behaving rationally. Sunk Cost fallacy is a thing in far more people that it is not.

Plus the investment in the mining equipment market will make for more efficient mining equipment, which would be needed for the new difficulty. We'd have a second mining equipment bubble.