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When I hear about something like this, I always think: "Insider's Job." Sorry, can't help it!

True. Founders risk tolerance may have been such that they looked at current $BTC price and decided this was it.

Can anyone guesstimate what they were profiting? Compare that to a $62m payday.

Reddit says they were making about $500K a day in mining fees.

What prevents them from keep mining?

Downtime, lack of trust from users, etc.

There's nothing wrong with thinking that as a possibility when this comes up!