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I'll ignore the "obviously stupid" comment and let you Google for examples. I agree that it's not worth the effort for governments to shut down Bitcoin, at the

by xapata 6y ago

I'll ignore the "obviously stupid" comment and let you Google for examples. I agree that it's not worth the effort for governments to shut down Bitcoin, at the moment. The US just confiscated $1 billion in coin. They're pretty happy with the pseudonyms it seems.

stale2002 6y ago
What some people don't seem to understand here, is that I could make a bitcoin transaction, by make a phone call to someone, for example. In order to truly prevent people from making bitcoin to transactions, a government would have to enact absolute authoritarian control over every single bit of information that goes into and out of the country. If I could even send a text message to someone outside the country, then I can send my bitcoin. Governments are not going to shut down all methods of ever sending text information to everyone permanently. > let you Google for examples. There are no examples of governments having absolute authoritarian perfect control over the internet, for any extended lengths of time. In every example of countries that have internet restrictions, there are many people who are still able to get information into and out of the country, through numerous methods. The original statement was "What's nearly impossible to stop?". And I maintained that it absolutely is nearly impossible for a government to enact perfect authoritarian control over every single person in a country. That is just obviously false. So no, governments cannot "simply shut down the internet to stop Bitcoin". Because no government in existence today, has enacted perfect authoritarian control, over the internet, or shut down their internet permanently and stopped every single VPN, satellite phone, ect. > it's not worth the effort for governments to shut down Bitcoin It will never be worth it for governments to permanently shut down all of the internet now and forever, as well as stop all of the vpns, satellite phone, ect. This kind of a permanent shutdown is something that no government has ever done. Every single example of governments trying to control the internet, still has many ways of getting information in and out of the country.
- xapata 6y ago
  I think we're talking past each other, because you're thinking of your own (and similar people's) ability, whereas I'm thinking of broad majority usage.

by xapata 6y ago

stale2002 6y ago

What some people don't seem to understand here, is that I could make a bitcoin transaction, by make a phone call to someone, for example. In order to truly prevent people from making bitcoin to transactions, a government would have to enact absolute authoritarian control over every single bit of information that goes into and out of the country. If I could even send a text message to someone outside the country, then I can send my bitcoin. Governments are not going to shut down all methods of ever sending text information to everyone permanently. > let you Google for examples. There are no examples of governments having absolute authoritarian perfect control over the internet, for any extended lengths of time. In every example of countries that have internet restrictions, there are many people who are still able to get information into and out of the country, through numerous methods. The original statement was "What's nearly impossible to stop?". And I maintained that it absolutely is nearly impossible for a government to enact perfect authoritarian control over every single person in a country. That is just obviously false. So no, governments cannot "simply shut down the internet to stop Bitcoin". Because no government in existence today, has enacted perfect authoritarian control, over the internet, or shut down their internet permanently and stopped every single VPN, satellite phone, ect. > it's not worth the effort for governments to shut down Bitcoin It will never be worth it for governments to permanently shut down all of the internet now and forever, as well as stop all of the vpns, satellite phone, ect. This kind of a permanent shutdown is something that no government has ever done. Every single example of governments trying to control the internet, still has many ways of getting information in and out of the country.

xapata 6y ago
I think we're talking past each other, because you're thinking of your own (and similar people's) ability, whereas I'm thinking of broad majority usage.