It's not a counter thought. It's a statement of the bleedin' obvious. However, the difficulty adjustment keeps prices and costs in line with each other to discourage miners from dropping out. Assuming this holds, breakeven cost can be used to predict price.
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Satoshi's point is subtle. Juice doesn't seem to have understood it. For one thing, he has reversed Satoshi's description of price-cost relationship. Satoshi said the price tends towards the cost - ie profits fall to zero. Juice says cost tends towards price. Not the same thing.
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Juice also ignores the role of the difficulty adjustment.
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