Quote from: Abiky on September 03, 2025, 07:13:22 PM

Quote from: Pablo-wood on August 28, 2025, 04:48:43 PM

Tampering with Bitcoin’s censorship resistance would be extremely difficult. It would basically require buying off or influencing a majority of developers and somehow changing the consensus rules or mining algorithm. Considering how decentralized and transparent the system is, that’s almost impossible to achieve. That’s the main reason censorship resistance is one of Bitcoin’s strongest features and why its value and concept is so different from a centralized system like PayPal.

Bitcoin is censorship-resistant for now. But what if big companies, governments, and institutional firms run their own nodes and/or miners? Since they have a lot of capital and resources, they can make a big difference on the network. And with mining pools being centralized, we should expect the worse.

I believe solo mining is the only decentralized way to truly-defend Bitcoin against a 51% attack. But I could be wrong. Developers can come up with a solution to prevent mining pool centralization, though. That way, Bitcoin will be more resilient against manipulation from "big players". Governments and institutions are amassing a large portion of the circulating supply with the hopes of "owning" it all. So long as the rest holds a greater portion of the supply, there should be nothing to worry about.

Trump son, the vice president is running a Bitcoin mining farm in the U.S, I heard about this from a relative friend in the country, they are really going after Bitcoin for their own reasons.

There is no way things won't get worse from here in terms of market manipulation but that 51% attack isn't possible anymore, I don't think they can pull that stunt on miners, many businesses are relying on this and Trump family want to turn this as family business.

I am somehow glad that Bitcoin was already in circulation before these people, imagine all this is happening at the very beginning of Bitcoin life, it would have been a total nightmare.