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Re:US travel firm $4.5M ransom negotiation open chat by ric2b on Monday August 03, 2020 @06:19AM (#24035999)
> what happens when miner traffic itself is disrupted and the network is forcibly split between China and the rest of the world?

How would this be done? It only takes a single node capable of connecting to both networks to keep the whole thing working. There are already many nodes working with satellite connections so I'm pretty sure this can't be done even by state actors.

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Re:US travel firm $4.5M ransom negotiation open chat by yyyk on Monday August 03, 2020 @06:07PM (#24044029)
A satellite connection is still dependent on BGP routing to get to China/RoW and still goes via the Great Firewall to connect to China (if outside of China, not sure on how the miners in China do it - possibly they don't have satellite equipment at all). Poisoning BGP routes is well within the capability of state actors, and China could of course decide to block its firewall.
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