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Re: Decentrally mined currency has failed and can't possibly be rescued
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UnunoctiumTesticles
on 01/12/2014, 04:26:52 UTC
Anyone who has their transactions "banned" by pools will simply pay enticing enough fees to have other miners include their transactions. OP seems to ignore financial incentives when speaking about banning Bitcoin. If there is money to be made, people will route around any regulations. This has been proven over and over again in the history of the world.
A few questions.

If people have to pay high fees to get their transactions confirmed, why would they use Bitcoin rather than some competing form of money transfer?

If the the hashrate of miners including blacklisted transactions shrinks to insignificance vs. those who adhere to the blacklist, surely it doesn't matter how high the fees are? Those transactions could take weeks/months/years to confirm, depending on what percentage of the overall hashrate the adhering farms represent.

Actually they would never confirm, because the 50% hashrate could blacklist the minority hashrate. This hints at franky1's logic error.
50% of whom? The mining businesses that don't want higher fees?

The mining business that doesn't want to be raided by the authorities and have their computers and ASICs farms confiscated.

I think you, franky1 et al fail to appreciate that an ASIC farm is a fixed position investment, with a lot of fixed capital infrastructure. You don't move these without being seen nor without losing some of your capital (downtime, loss of favorable electricity connection, favorable rent lease, etc).

It is as if you guys are living in some Bugs Bunny fantasy world and have never actually run a business.