Well, so I guess by the end of march this should stop then, right?
I sure hope so, but I guess the negative sentiment could create a self-perpetuating cycle that lasts longer.
After that, and the price still keeps sliding and witnesses drop off the network because they are not covering costs. Then what?
People could start witnessing on their home computers if it came to that. I've got 4 steemd nodes running miners in linux VMs on 2 windows PCs. It's costing me nothing that I wouldn't have paid anyway. I don't really think it'll come to that, though. (knock on wood. ; -)