I'm not a miner so I can't give that much additional info and an opinion about the factors for the incoming bitmain miners. But with PayPal making its first investment on blockchain. This made me wowed! I can't think of it that they are into it, a well known payment processor is starting to get into the technology behind cryptocurrencies that's solely created to be an alternative payment option with their business. I searched it and it's legit, it's on
coindesk.If I may get you right, you mean paypal too has already adopted the use of blockchain technology for their payment system? If this is real, I can bet that the whole cryptocurrency idea is just about to boom, do you know how many users of paypal we have, imagine all of the getting introduced to cryptocurrency, there will really be a boom.
I have always expected something extra ordinary to happen in the cryptocurrency space this year, more are coming to join the list, now we have these projects like Facebook, twitter, visa, Samsung already on board or coming on board, and now this great news of PayPal which I am yet to confirm myself.
Yes, I can imagine on how many users PayPal has but it isn't crypto that PayPal is adopting but blockchain. You can refer to these news:
https://www.coindesk.com/paypal-makes-its-first-ever-investment-in-a-blockchain-startuphttps://decryptmedia.com/6285/paypal-cryptocurrency-blockchain-startuphttps://blockonomi.com/paypal-blockchain-identity-investment/More mines join in the bitcoin network means the difficulty of bitcoin will increase and that will create a strict competition between every miners. that makes the price of bitcoin will increase because to mine bitcoin will be so difficult.
Ohhh, that's informative. More miners, means tougher competition, higher demand and higher price.