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> All of which are possible but not trivial Isn't China doing #1 - #4 to about 25% of the world's population already?
by justboxing 9y ago
> All of which are possible but not trivial
Isn't China doing #1 - #4 to about 25% of the world's population already?
- cheez 9y agoYou missed step 0: disarm the population.
- zanny 9y agoChina is trying to do all that, but about 90% of bitcoins growth in the last 4 years has come out of Chinese investment in it for both speculation and mining. Even outright attempts to outlaw it has not slowed down participation practically at all. The fundamental problem is that it is incredibly hard to provide only some Internet access, be they a state actor, public school, parent, etc. The design of the protocols impairs censorship efforts. If you want to censor the Internet, you pretty much have to start with a whitelist approach of allowed IPs and domains, and then stringently audit those to insure they don't act as proxies.
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