> Personally, I don’t think they [Bitcoin, Tor] can be effectively banned at this point. Iran and China, for example, are actively trying and failing. That is,

> Personally, I don’t think they [Bitcoin, Tor] can be effectively banned at this point. Iran and China, for example, are actively trying and failing. That is, unfortunately, not quite true in regards to Tor. Iran has on multiple occasions done/tried out doing (turned it on, then off) traffic censorship that directly or indirectly very much affected Tor. [1] [2] True, Tor managed to roll out obfsfroxy et al., which they'd been already actively developing prior to that, but if e.g. Iran (again) attempted country-wise generic SSL censorship, that would hurt things. Tor's pluggable transports would perhaps be a response to that still, but Iran's gov't could move on to other things. With China it's even worse, as it seems there is custom software being used from within China to actively discover and censor out new Tor bridges (as in, a new one is used by someone, some minutes later another connection from China comes in to it, speaks Tor protocol, disconnects, and then the bridge is blocked.) [3] This is just to make sure the information about these matters is out there. If anybody is interested in helping out Tor, the mailing lists [4] and research papers and code is out there. :) [5] [1] https://blog.torproject.org/blog/update-internet-censorship-iran https://blog.torproject.org/blog/update-internet-censorship-... [2] https://blog.torproject.org/blog/iran-partially-blocks-encrypted-network-traffic https://blog.torproject.org/blog/iran-partially-blocks-encry... (more results via a simple search if interested.) [3] https://blog.torproject.org/blog/knock-knock-knockin-bridges-doors https://blog.torproject.org/blog/knock-knock-knockin-bridges... [4] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo [5] https://www.torproject.org/getinvolved/volunteer https://www.torproject.org/getinvolved/volunteer