Hi,
I was wondering something the other day about after rewards finish.
From what I understand, miners mine for tx fees, difficulty will drop as there will most likely be less miners or less powerful miners. Given this scenario.
theoretically if bitcoin block height was to reach the limit of 32bit int. 2,147,483,647 or even if it was 64bit int 9,223,372,036,854,775,808 block height (Not that I think it will actually ever get to this number) What could be done to prevent such measures. Would it even be a problem?
I imagine once the difficulty drops after rewards we will be back to quicker mining and finding blocks more rapidly. correct me if I am wrong.
Thanks for any theoretical answers