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Re:Cryptocurrency is driving innovation in the financial sector by darawk on Monday July 02, 2018 @01:17AM (#17439483)
> I am really surprised that people seem to think that the less-centralized nature of bitcoin makes it that much more resistant to government interference

Why? Decentralized systems are sort of the standard way of defeating centralized governments. See: Tor, Guerilla warfare, Lone wolf terrorism, etc..

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Re:Cryptocurrency is driving innovation in the financial sector by Nursie on Monday July 02, 2018 @02:57AM (#17439775)
BTCis centralised in various ways. It's likely that one actor (Bitmain) could muster 51% hash power relatively easily. There are relatively few on-off ramps for the ecosystem.

These two facts alone point to possibilities for interference at a large scale.

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