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As Bitcoin Sinks, Industry Startups Are Forced to ...
There was a time when the Bitcoin price was zero, yet people spent computer time mining it.
So the answer to your question is never, a Bitcoin death spiral can not occur.
onion2k
on Dec 26, 2018
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You're right in the sense that there'll always be a few hundred interested people mining Bitcoin for fun, but that's not very useful information. "Actually dead" and "effectively dead" might as well be synonyms in this case.
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So the answer to your question is never, a Bitcoin death spiral can not occur.