And while this is sad kind of if they are lost. So what in a way.
But if Mr V were to die what would do to the coin called E..
Which is why BTC is far far far far better choice to hodl.
While the new diff is a very early number it is at -16.4%
https://diff.cryptothis.com/Latest Block: 689534 (35 minutes ago)
Current Pace: 83.5839% (63 / 75.37 expected, 12.37 behind) -16.4% real time
Previous Difficulty: 19932791027262.74
Current Difficulty: 14363025673659.96
Next Difficulty: between 12151615800951 and 14203993037570
Next Difficulty Change: between -15.3965% and -1.1072%
Previous Retarget: Today at 2:25 AM (-27.9427%)
Next Retarget (earliest): July 17, 2021 at 6:28 AM (in 13d 15h 29m 52s)
Next Retarget (latest): July 19, 2021 at 8:24 PM (in 16d 5h 25m 44s)
Projected Epoch Length: between 14d 4h 3m 36s and 16d 17h 59m 28s
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If we hold price at 32-36k range and hold the next mining drop at 16.4%
the remaining miners will will get to have 2 months of mining profits in under 1 month.
This is a new thing. It may have been engineered by Bitmain and could be how they are dealing with the chip shortage.
Can't sell gear and mine at the same time.
Well then lets cut 1/2 the worlds mining ability while you do not 1/2 your gear.
Thus you 2x your mining profits .