if crypto mining is banned I think the price will skyrocket because if mining is banned it will be difficult to get crypto assets without buying
Mining is dependent on the price not the other way around.
Plus, unlike oil the price will not rise like in the case of half of the OPEC cutting drilling, after one epoch and difficulty adjustment the network will run just as it did previously, 1 million miners or 10 000 after adjustments it will be the same, the only thing that will change will be the security of the network.
This changes nothing. It will just re-direct the whole power to the countries where mining is still strong enough and legal. For example, imagine El Salvador where bitcoin is considered as legal tender, it will get the upper hand and thus gain the whole and sole power to mine the crypto. Stopping the crypto mining won't stop the use of the crypto currencies in any country as it is online, and it can not be practically banned or stopped from using.
So left over mining power and followed by it's reward, will be given to El Salvador (example). Imagine they have will have huge amount of assets in their hands.
Yeah, that's what you're going to believe if you trust the bs Bukele spreads all day..
He claimed he had a 200MW drilled and ready to mine bitcoin back in July...where is it?
Salvador total energy production from geothermal (cause Vulcano energy is geothermal)
is just 644 MW, assuming all that will be used for mining so current users will have to switch to something else, and 100% capacity factor you have 5Twh. Compared to 200, is 2.5%.
Countries editing the power? At what price?
