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Quote from: apoorvlathey on October 18, 2016, 08:48:03 PM

Recently many file sharing sites and torrents had been banned in my country to stop piracy.

Is there a way that the government or the isp may block the connection to bitcoin network by its users ??

i don't think anybody can block users and stop them from using bitcoin, they can always threaten people into not using bitcoin the same way they threaten the usage of Torrent and prosecute pirates but it will always exist. so the same thing will be true about bitcoin. it is p2p and as long as 2 pees are using it, the network and be alive

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People will just connect to these sites via proxies and anonymous browsers and find ways to bypass firewall restrictions. We have seen this with the Chinese " Golden Shield Project " where censorship and surveillance are applied to restrict internet use. You might find some ways to bypass these restrictions, but you might also end up with some jail time, if you did that.

The other thing they might also do, is to ban "Crypto currency" use on the merchant side. If these merchants are forbidden to accept "Crypto currencies" then you would have no place to spend your bitcoins.

In the end, we just have to work with these governments to find a solution to satisfy everyone's needs and hope that they would not over regulate it, which I doubt. ^hmmmmm^

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governments cannot take down the network because the IP's are vast.
but lets not get lazy and think we are safe. apathy leads to vulnerability. by not keeping the network as secure as possible.

so lets be realistic and not have an apathetic utopian mindset.

worse case scenario:
(1) governments can take down this forum. the subreddits, github, and some IRC channels, and a couple other bitcoin sites/exchanges to cause some drama.
because that is only under 10 places to hit.

this will take more then a few days for people to try communicating with each other via social media to re establish a new assortment of collaboration of minds, code, markets.

but what i say above wont affect the bitcoin network at all.
however,
(2) governments take down the mining pools internet. because there are only ~20 pools.
causing block creation delays while mining pools switch servers.
this is a short term delay of under an hour. because pools do (well some should) have multiple servers(within their control but in different jurisdictions) to allow miners to "pool hop" to another server quite quickly.
some pools dont have a couple servers. meaning it will take more then an hour to allow their asics to "pool hop"

but what i say above wont see much interruption/delay on the network.

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Quote from: apoorvlathey on October 18, 2016, 08:48:03 PM

Recently many file sharing sites and torrents had been banned in my country to stop piracy.

Is there a way that the government or the isp may block the connection to bitcoin network by its users ??

I think it is impossible,because BTC is uncenter, u have net you can use btc !

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Quote from: apoorvlathey on October 18, 2016, 08:48:03 PM

Recently many file sharing sites and torrents had been banned in my country to stop piracy.

Is there a way that the government or the isp may block the connection to bitcoin network by its users ??

There is likely some system that exists to prevent people from being able to access it, however, if I remember correctly, they would have to block the nodes in order to really block the network. I'm not 100% sure about that, but that is my interpretation of the whitepaper.

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beware of your keys.

for me, not because the network is decentralised unless there are no avaliable network even it is private, the bitcoin network is based on the method you won't know, like going the transaction via the vpn. Huh

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Quote from: apoorvlathey on October 18, 2016, 08:48:03 PM

Recently many file sharing sites and torrents had been banned in my country to stop piracy.

Is there a way that the government or the isp may block the connection to bitcoin network by its users ??

can you give more information about how they banned/blocked file sharing using torrent technology? because there is no single IP to ban and the port is also changeable that is why i am curious to know how this can be done.

and as for bitcoin you can always make your transactions offline and push them on a block explorer even if it is blocked somehow!

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Quote from: apoorvlathey on October 18, 2016, 08:48:03 PM

Recently many file sharing sites and torrents had been banned in my country to stop piracy.

Is there a way that the government or the isp may block the connection to bitcoin network by its users ??

In my understanding it can be blocked by government if they don't want it to enter on your country and some of countries label bitcoins as illegal currency or illegal of using it .but you can still bypass and access it as many of IP's are created to enter some prohibited network and now can enter that sites blocked sites by changing your country and location server.

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Quote from: apoorvlathey on October 18, 2016, 08:48:03 PM

Recently many file sharing sites and torrents had been banned in my country to stop piracy.

Is there a way that the government or the isp may block the connection to bitcoin network by its users ??

That's right the goverment just be able for blocking the bitcoin through the IP, in this time that is referring into the bitcoin'site and not for the bitcoin currency. but it's just useless step for the goverment and isp for blocking bitcoin. according from the a lot of the various vpn are offering a good service in this day for passing a block and like using a tor network. goverment and isp just wasting a lot of their time for doing a sueless things.

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Recently many file sharing sites and torrents had been banned in my country to stop piracy.

Is there a way that the government or the isp may block the connection to bitcoin network by its users ??

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