Quote from: mortified on March 12, 2015, 09:21:02 AM

I am 100% for users to obfuscate. I am 100% against miners using it. Having said that TOR mining wouldn't be desirable for commercial mining anyway. Centralized open competitive mining is optimum for consumer protection and global participation.

It provokes the honest question of: How exposed would you want mining to be?

Should they all register with their local military authority?
Or put another way: Is it necessarily a "business" and subject to MTL?

I am certainly not suggesting that anyone do anything criminal at all. In jurisdictions where the local authority forbids an action (or does so by regulating it into unprofitability), it is just better to be elsewhere if you can be. However, the real estate where one is not disadvantaged by conducting Bitcoin mining, or exposing oneself to theft under color of law and forfeitures... that real estate is dwindling. There are few such jurisdictions remaining.

As it turns out, only those who simply mine and hold (satoshi) are in the clear on this matter.

I'd see TOR fixed rather than impinge Bitcoin, but the "Keep Bitcoin Free" folks' points on this matter are interesting nonetheless. The fork does signal the end of an important part of privacy for Bitcoin mining, so those miners who do desire such privacy, or happen to be an a particularly onerous jurisdiction have the choice of quitting Bitcoin mining, or staying on the 1MB chain.

Bitcoin Mining in China:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8kua5B5K3I