The mining industry and the exahash of the network isn't necessary for the value of BTC. Only the number of nodes
Maybe so, but the cryptocurrency markets (like the sharemarkets) thrive on investor confidence and cheap money.
When events happen which shakes peoples confidence in a product (even if it does not affect them personally) then the inevitable scramble to get
out of that market insures.
The shitshow has not even properly started yet, so we will have to wait for higher interest rates and stock market correction for cryptos to find their true value.
And I would not like to be holding cryptos when that happens.
