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Re:BTC Endgame by ruined on Saturday February 20, 2021 @01:37AM (#26202149)
why do you expect that? you're talking about tens of thousands of individuals and companies, all themselves invested in bitcoin, being asked (through no existing command or enforcement mechanism) to essentially destroy their own personal wealth. even assuming the chinese state could achieve compliance from 77% of the existing hardware, it would optimistically take several days. the only way around that stumbling block would be to mandate centralized control of the miners, which would be impossible to keep secret and would also inspire some sort of reaction.

the idea that every miner in china will jump when xi says is pure fantasy.

Re:BTC Endgame by Hasnep on Saturday February 20, 2021 @06:37AM (#26203417)
Remember, China is a country with concentration camps, so they (the CCP) clearly have the ability and desire to do extreme things and convince their people it's the right thing or that it's not happening.
Re:BTC Endgame by ruined on Saturday February 20, 2021 @03:18PM (#26207545)
and america has the largest prison population in the world. we still have plenty of people that don't immediately comply with whatever the president says at any moment.

yall act like china is populated entirely by robots. it's a complex society just like anywhere else.