However, the regulators can always have the ability to ban cryptomining because it has become a business that needs regulator permits and licenses to begin operation or be approved to operate.
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Users should be given back the ability to mine in the privacy of their own homes where the government has no right to stop them.
Even if that becomes the law, realistically, they can't stop every single miner in those regions! The small-scale miners with access to renewable sources
[e.g. solar panels] at home, will continue their operations and I wouldn't be surprised to see other home miners
[with only a few mining rigs] underclocking what they already have
[with schedules mining times] so it wouldn't be obvious that they're mining at home!
- In other words, that's not a weakness!and those that will be sanctioned will use the currency that solves the problem of censorship. Once HODLed, and the value of the protocol is truly realized, the HODLer-state will protect it, help/add value to it.
By hodling it, they're not actually using it and I don't think it could have a positive impact on the issue in question.