Mining, on the other hand, is decentralised. By "banning" mining, they would be banning something which could happen in any home anywhere without their knowledge, so it would be a very ineffective law.
Oh really?
Mining is decentralized?
There is nobody mining at home in China and if it were everybody on a 10 blocks radius would know.
Have you ever heard the noise of a S9? And it would be so easy to identify a miner just by looking at energy consumption.
Either way they user wash talking about mining farms.
And those are so easy to spot and already knows (we even have threads with pics from them) it would be a piece of cake to shut them down.