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Re: Chinese miners rejecting transactions originating in the US
by
kiklo
on 13/11/2016, 09:36:51 UTC
How would they determine where the transaction originates?

https://99bitcoins.com/know-more-top-seven-ways-your-identity-can-be-linked-to-your-bitcoin-address/

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/09/05/follow-the-bitcoins-how-we-got-busted-buying-drugs-on-silk-roads-black-market/#7205eed989a8

http://siliconangle.com/blog/2015/07/14/hacking-team-found-a-way-to-track-and-trace-bitcoin-transactions-and-the-software-is-now-in-the-wild/

Although the easiest way , would be for them to make a list of all allowable addresses from Chinese Miners and Chinese Exchanges or link a BTC address to a Chinese Citizen, and then block all transactions to any address not in the approved list.

Not hard to do at all.   Tongue

 Cool