Quote from: r0ach on August 18, 2017, 05:55:48 AM

Quote from: ghandi on August 17, 2017, 01:26:05 PM

Quote from: r0ach on August 17, 2017, 12:59:25 PM

Whoever thinks bitcoin can't be destroyed with ease when it's network traffic isn't even obfuscated should take a look at the case of The Daily Stormer, who big corporations have essentially censored it from the internet in a time span of two days:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/why-we-terminated-daily-stormer/

https://www.rferl.org/a/u-s-neo-nazi-website-russian-domain-daily-stormer/28680409.html

First they came for the nazis, but I didn't speak out, because I was not a nazi.

You understand the technical differences between a server-based Hosting and DDoS Protection and a decentralized peer-to-peer Network?

Doesn't matter. The Cloudflare CEO guy's point was clear, that there is already a monopoly on the internet where all it takes is a couple of corporations - let's say ISP providers such as Comcast and AT&T - to blacklist something and it's gone if the traffic is not completely obfuscated. You can't blacklist gold and silver from existing, but the internet is already a corporate and/or government monopoly so it's not hard to do with anything here.

Without the govt even outlawing something, corporations can destroy it just as easy. Yea yea, you can then log onto a Somalian bitcoin exchange via proxy after all 1st world mining and exchanges are shut down, but nobody even accepts bitcoin in native form. The only places that accept bitcoin do so with Bitpay and immediately convert to fiat. Remove the ability to convert to fiat and bitcoin is useless. It's current existence is a centralized currency that's a derivative of another currency, while only gold and silver are actually money.

The only reason the government allows this nonsense to exist for now is to try and acclimate the goyim into the de-cashing of society and integration into a digital only slave currency control grid. That and to try and prevent people from buying gold and silver because the market is stretched too thin and they're running out of metals to deliver which would blow up their ponzi.

I'm sorry, but you got this thing wrong. You cannot easily shutdown Bitcoin without taking down the whole Internet. When the big ISP block the default Bitcoin-Port (8333) we simply switch to something they can't block like Port 80 (HTTP) or 443 (HTTPS). They can't take down these Ports, without taking down the entire WorldWideWeb. Bitcoin uses a mesh-approach. You only need one Bitcoin-Node as a gateway and you can reach the whole Bitcoin Network.

It only gets troublesome when they start to depp-packet-inspect the traffic and filter on protocol level. But then we already live like China behind a great firewall and got other problems to deal with.