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j"1LAnZuoQdcKCkpDBKQMCgziGMoPC4VQUckM¢<div class="post">You ignore all kinds of things that help solve this.<br/><br/>Transaction fees will increase if blocks come more slowly because it will be more desirable to get your transactions in the next block.<br/><br/>If an entity calculates that (fixed costs + variable costs &lt; revenue) adjusted for risk the it is pretty unlikely that they will hit the (variable costs &gt; revenue) easily at all and that is the shutdown point.<br/><br/>These minters will usually have and use bitcoins themselves. This gives two extra incentives to operate at a "loss". They want their transactions to get processed, and they want to maintain bitcoin as a working system.</div> text/html