Quote from: saturn643 on January 20, 2016, 11:47:43 PM

Quote from: Asulect on January 20, 2016, 11:31:58 PM

Quote from: calkob on January 20, 2016, 06:53:34 PM

do these idiots not understand that bitcoin cant be blocked, yeah you might ban it in your country but you cannot stop it. Anyone with a computer and an internet connection can run a node and if the big mining farms where shut down they could mine it also, these people never surprise me in there arrogance........

Your keyword is "Internet" in which, some governments have control of. One single country in the east with its Great firewall can easily cause chaos in bitcoins. Another country in the west have total control of the "backbone" of the Internet can also cause chaos if it choose to.

The internet in itself is decentralized. The backbone of the internet is not located in one country, but multiple countries. And pulling the plug on the internet a) doesn't work and b) would be absolutely catastrophic to other stuff that the governments do care about. The internet cannot be shutdown, and with anonymizers like Tor, censorship and blocking can be easily circumvented.

Furthermore, we can also develop a bitcoin network through radio and not rely on current internet infrastructure. Instead we could create a global peer-to-peer radio network solely for bitcoin. There are people who are trying to create such a network

shhh, maybe nobody has let them in on the hoax yet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDbyYGrswtg