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Nonsense, if it costs you $5000 to mine a bitcoin and the price is $1000 then you have no reason to mine it and the hashpower would lower.

From a naïve perspective of only mining for profit that's sort of true.

Lots of people mine for other reasons.

Still probably not related to amount of transactions.

True, since the number of transactions is unrelated to the hashrate of the network.