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Unfortunately, but then at that stage some people will eventually attack things (if centralization increases) and then its a matter of forking decision and monopolized mining pools. Which I don't think it will ever occur at the rate we are heading... but I was speaking from the perspective of protecting the network as a limitation (being price would not even matter), and not so much as an influence of price.

So, yeah, in a sense I agree with you.

But what I am saying, hopefully humans are not going to make technology useless, by not using it the right way (aka for example, doing all the hashing in a quantum computer in 10 years time and leaving it like that because its supper energy efficient). Hopefully by then the value of mining is way higher and the cost of hashing supper low compared with today's ASICs.