Quote from: BlackHatCoiner on Today at 09:08:57 PM

Quote from: franky1 on Today at 08:49:07 PM

having no internet means no fork, no different chain. it just means no competition from russia.

Cutting the internet connection doesn't take their computational resources. They can still use them to mine blocks, even if they had been using them to provide shares in a pool outside Russia.

Quote from: franky1 on Today at 08:49:07 PM

there was no chain split when kazahkstan went dark last year. because no internet means NO INTERNET

I can think of many other reasons why they didn't split Bitcoin. One's that it makes consensus harder to be achieved. Another is that there wasn't enough demand for a fork to occur.

THERE WAS NO INTERNET

no internet means NO communication between nodes. meaning no fork
its a simple piece of common sense logic..
if you have no internet then your miners are doing nothing but burning electric for no reason
you are not broadcasting anything to anyone because your data is not leaving YOUR BUILDING

why would anyone continue mining if the only place their data goes is in their internal building LAN..

no WAN = no fork.
no one would be mining their own chain that is only seen on the computers in the same office as the miner. because that is just an expensive future orphan when the internet gets turned on again