>The value of the tokens is completely and totally dependent on a consensus of crypto miners doing their job within the parameters of the system, assuming you want them to maintain a price and trading volume that's favorable to the token holders.
Number of miners has absolutely nothing to do with trading volumes, not sure where you got that from. Miners don't maintain a price any more than a whale maintains a price.
>If the majority of miners suddenly go bust due to outside circumstances
The rest of the miners would step in and start making more money, actually.
>they decide to conspire together and attack the system, or conspire with some whales to perform a rug pull
Not much of a rug pull to sell the tokens you've legitimately acquired through mining or fiat buying. That's just selling. High volatility selling, yes, but still just selling.
>it's extremely likely that your tokens aren't going to be worth anything anymore. This applies to every token, including bitcoin.
Oh yes, Bitcoin has died thousands of times. Maybe you'll be right one day, but I doubt it.