Re:Ask HN: Could ISPs Stop Bitcoin?
by octosphere on Sunday November 10, 2019 @11:21AM
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> So even though they can't tell Bitcoin itself to stop they could stop underlying technologies Bitcoin uses.
It's not as simple as that. Due to things like carrier grade NAT, thousands if not millions of users and services use the same IPV4 address, so shutting down a specific IP would be equivalent to an authoritarian dictator censoring innocent users.
It's not as simple as that. Due to things like carrier grade NAT, thousands if not millions of users and services use the same IPV4 address, so shutting down a specific IP would be equivalent to an authoritarian dictator censoring innocent users.