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If you can control the traffic in and out a country, you can control both the internet and block off extra-sovereign chains.
by akhatri_aus 9y ago
If you can control the traffic in and out a country, you can control both the internet and block off extra-sovereign chains.
- gruez 9y ago...because censorship (in general) work so well in the past? the bitcoin blockchain generates 6 one MB blocks per hour, that's 1.6 KB/s. i can think of multiple ways to smuggle data in at that bandwidth. blockstream apparently also has satelites broadcasting the blockchain. good luck shutting that down. transactions are even easier. they're less than 0.5KB, something you can easily fit in a few SMS, or in a envelope.
- akhatri_aus 9y agoEveryone would need to smuggle data out, 50%+ of the chain within the country is all that's needed to win. You're not going to get everyone to use satellites to get data in and out. If you've ever been in an African country you'd know SMSs aren't on the cheap side either. You'd also know they have tools that can track and catch your VSAT dishes and fine you heavily.