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This could also be related to China's recent crackdown on VPNs. Eliminating ways to export value without controls by the government, in retrospect, seems like
by mjevans 9y ago
This could also be related to China's recent crackdown on VPNs.
Eliminating ways to export value without controls by the government, in retrospect, seems like one of the more obvious reasons to control the flow of information. There's suppression of nationally embarrassing facts, but only recently have things actually gotten more serious than providing a high (but climbable) wall.
- jankotek 9y agoIt works opposite way. Bitcoin mining is centralized in China, so firewall would cutoff rest of the world. (it ads latency and makes it harder to announce newly mined blocks)