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Nothing much honestly.

Mining in Bitcoin (and the other cryptos) adapter to the amount of miners, and will still produce a similar amount of coins and work as normal.

Sure, there are extreme cases like if a very significant amount of miners would suddenly stop, then the blocks would come in at a much reduced rate until the algorithm adapts itself.

And if too many stops mining though, then the chain becomes too easy to attack, which would (err, should) destroy its value.



I did use the word “significant” in my original question.

The following reply to this question makes it sound pretty dire:

https://www.quora.com/What-if-everyone-stop-mining-Bitcoin


During the crash in 2017 mining decreased drastically, I want to say by like 70%? There were slow blocks for a while then difficulty adjusted.


In the case of ETH, difficulty adjusts every block. ~15s.




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