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Quote from: fabrizeo on November 23, 2017, 01:08:54 AM

Hello,

I am reading a lot on the internet about the fact that Bitcoin is not stoppable as not centralized.

However what would happen if a government decision to implement DPI blocking of Bitcoin protocol?

Seems it is fairly easy for a government to do so at ISP level... On top of it exchange could be blocked with a firewall on top of all others kinds of bitcoin forum etc...

Thanks for your opinion.

They have the power to block Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies as well but, as long as there would be people supporting Bitcoin they cant stop it. Some countries are trying to block BTC in their countries still people are trading BTC.

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I think first of all,the government can not block the btc because all the projects or papers go through so that bitcoin can legally be used anywhere in the world

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if it blocks internet i guess. otherwise to put legal regulations to restrict curculation...

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Quote from: fabrizeo on November 23, 2017, 01:08:54 AM

Hello,

I am reading a lot on the internet about the fact that Bitcoin is not stoppable as not centralized.

However what would happen if a government decision to implement DPI blocking of Bitcoin protocol?

Seems it is fairly easy for a government to do so at ISP level... On top of it exchange could be blocked with a firewall on top of all others kinds of bitcoin forum etc...

Thanks for your opinion.

Maybe? Thats why some goverment hate this because they said that this bitcoin is only a fraud and goverment have a fear that someday bitcoin will replace all banks because bitcoin is better than banks and so fast .

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No, bitcoin is everywhere in the web. And the only way the government can stop bitcoin is to disable the internet.

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Quote from: BY_ATOM on November 23, 2017, 01:20:37 AM

In fact to block bitcoin completely, you need to disable the Internet. That in fact in today's world is not possible)

I agree. Technology is a part of our daily lives today especially the internet. Good Communication leads to good ideas and with good combination of ideas there are good result. I believe that bitcoin is a great product of technology and good ideas.
This creation will only be turned down by turning off the internet which even the government will think that it is not a wise thing to do.

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Quote from: AliMan on November 24, 2017, 08:43:39 AM

Quote from: Emoclaw on November 23, 2017, 01:15:55 AM

It can't. There are many nodes that Bitcoin has, more than what sites like coin.dance say and it's impossible to find them, let alone block all of them.
They could attempt to ruin Bitcoin's quality of service by blocking exchanges, forums and web wallets, but people would still be able to use it and they'd find a way to do all of these things.

It's also important to note that any ISP blockages can be circumvented by using a VPN, thus it wouldn't even be remotely effective.
The only way to stop Bitcoin is by not using the Internet at all, like North Korea does.

If the government blocked wallet and exchange services, Well i say to you that we can still access them. If we will use TOR or VPN that hides our IP, We can access them. The only thing to do is to disable the internet service. But no one will trying to disable it. In other words, Government will not be able to block wallet and exchange services here in bitcoin world.

If they will also disable the internet connections,lot of agencies will be affected too.So they can't block bitcoin at all or else they will only face lot of problems if they continue to find ways on blocking BTC.After all BTC has done so much help to the people of the government by increasing their economic status.

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ban bitcoin if possible but you can easy skip it.
worse could be banning local market in your country, money transfer (elixir) from other country market isn't cheap and could be watching by gov.

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I think they cannot block as long we cannot do anything and affect everybody we need an internet and our community need that also.Internet connection is very important in our lifestyle now so the cannot control to blocked bitcoin maybe for banned bitcoin .

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Quote from: fabrizeo on November 23, 2017, 01:08:54 AM

Hello,

I am reading a lot on the internet about the fact that Bitcoin is not stoppable as not centralized.

However what would happen if a government decision to implement DPI blocking of Bitcoin protocol?

Seems it is fairly easy for a government to do so at ISP level... On top of it exchange could be blocked with a firewall on top of all others kinds of bitcoin forum etc...

Thanks for your opinion.

block bitcoin? I think it can not, because bitcoin is the virtual currency, which circulation through internet network, so if it will block the bitcoin the government must shut down the country's internet network

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Quote from: NRF on November 24, 2017, 10:31:17 AM

Bitcoin is created from Blockchain technology. They can be removed or changed by anyone. However, government can damage by block exchanges or ICO activities

The best thing that the government can do to bitcoin is to ban it and there is no where that they can block it or stop people from mining it. So it's a null effort and there is nothing that they can do about it.

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It is so impossible for the government to block bitcoin because they need to communicate with other countries government. Maybe they can ban bitcoin, but they can never block it fully or completely because there are a lot of people who will oppose it and worst, will do some rallies against the government if that would definitely happen.

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Bitcoin is created from Blockchain technology. They can be removed or changed by anyone. However, government can damage by block exchanges or ICO activities

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Quote from: honeyb0y on November 24, 2017, 08:41:44 AM

IT is impossible for a government to stop the block chain as it doesn't have any specific server to be blocked, unlike a website if government decided to stop it they can just block it's IP to be accessed.

Right.It would be impossible for the government to block BTC since this is not a centralized system.They would really find it hard to stop us from having access to bitcoin because we know exactly what bitcoin had done to our lives the most positive way.

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Quote from: Emoclaw on November 23, 2017, 01:15:55 AM

It can't. There are many nodes that Bitcoin has, more than what sites like coin.dance say and it's impossible to find them, let alone block all of them.
They could attempt to ruin Bitcoin's quality of service by blocking exchanges, forums and web wallets, but people would still be able to use it and they'd find a way to do all of these things.

It's also important to note that any ISP blockages can be circumvented by using a VPN, thus it wouldn't even be remotely effective.
The only way to stop Bitcoin is by not using the Internet at all, like North Korea does.

If the government blocked wallet and exchange services, Well i say to you that we can still access them. If we will use TOR or VPN that hides our IP, We can access them. The only thing to do is to disable the internet service. But no one will trying to disable it. In other words, Government will not be able to block wallet and exchange services here in bitcoin world.

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IT is impossible for a government to stop the block chain as it doesn't have any specific server to be blocked, unlike a website if government decided to stop it they can just block it's IP to be accessed.

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They can't block bitcoin, they can only block the websites where you can use, buy and trade bitcoins.

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Quote from: fabrizeo on November 23, 2017, 01:08:54 AM

Hello,

I am reading a lot on the internet about the fact that Bitcoin is not stoppable as not centralized.

However what would happen if a government decision to implement DPI blocking of Bitcoin protocol?

Seems it is fairly easy for a government to do so at ISP level... On top of it exchange could be blocked with a firewall on top of all others kinds of bitcoin forum etc...

Thanks for your opinion.

i think its not if they no how much important bitcoin but if they don't want to obsolescent their own country they can ban bitcoin otherwise not all countries government want to banned bitcoin like my country

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i think government can't block the bitcoin because bitcoin have many node on it, i think government just can give the restriction to using or making transaction with bitcoin also block all website that have related with bitcoin

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Quote from: Godric-Gryffindor on November 24, 2017, 08:08:39 AM

If government block Bitcoin on ISP level bitcoiner will have no choice but to use VPN and other IP changing software to use bitcoin online, Regulations is more good, But Blocking Bitcoin thats funny.

ip changing and vpn? Lol, thats not how they will try to block btc traffic.

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