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If the government wanted to cripple cryptocurrency in a country, all they'd have to do is turn off the electricity. Sure, some people would have off-grid power
by kerkeslager 7y ago
If the government wanted to cripple cryptocurrency in a country, all they'd have to do is turn off the electricity.
Sure, some people would have off-grid power, but enough to have a reasonably functioning economy? Unlikely.
- impeachTheIdiot 7y agoUmm... it’s more unlikely a country would shut off its own power.
- AstralStorm 7y agoNot even that, it's enough to take down a few backbone routers. The same reliability that prevents forging it would break any used cryptocurrency in two, if it even works at all.