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I wonder why the Chinese internet is still even connected to the Internet (other than for cyber-warfare).
by anvandare 8y ago
I wonder why the Chinese internet is still even connected to the Internet (other than for cyber-warfare).
- gooseus 8y agoWell, let's not forget that a significant percentage of the "decentralized" bitcoin mining network, operates out of China[0]. Currently BTC.COM[1] and AntPool[2] combined make up 42.5% of the network and both are both owned by Bitmain, a company headquartered in Beijing. ViaBTC[3] is also a Chinese mining company operating out of Shenzhen and has 10.1%. I'm not going to bother checking the rest since that's already 52.6% of the network controlled by 2 companies under 1 authoritarian regime. [0] https://blockchain.info/pools https://blockchain.info/pools [1] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BTC.com https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BTC.com [2] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/AntPool https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/AntPool [3] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/viabtc https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/viabtc
- monetus 8y agoI wonder why I haven't heard that repeated more often. That is not good.