Comment by math1985 on 12/01/2018 at 20:05 UTC

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Well, if people are doing billions of transactions off chain maybe the mining rewards on the chain won't be large enough for the miners.

This is incorrect. If miners stop mining, difficulty will go down, which will increase the amount of miners again.

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Comment by [deleted] at 12/01/2018 at 20:07 UTC

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Let's say the traffic is at the current tps on chain. But you have a 2nd layer that does magnitudes more transactions and bitcoin is a liquid asset (currently it's not).