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		ianai on Feb 23, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: U.S. Secret Service Launches Cryptocurrency Awaren... 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

thebean11 on Feb 23, 2022 [–]

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.

latchkey on Feb 23, 2022 | [–]

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

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