Okay. Let's try a different approach - if Bitcoin is declared illegal goes completely underground, how will I use it without great risk to my personal safety?
Has anyone ever pointed out to you how spineless you are?
No. They have disagreed in colorful ways with my appraisal of the situation, but you are the first to make this mistake in exactly this manner. Since you're my number one customer on this front, I'll clarify my stance a bit:
A man holed up in his apartment against a police siege with a 9mm to protect his hard drives is not a revolution. It is an obituary entry. None of us have anything to gain by picking fights we can't possibly win. The Give Me Bitcoins or Give Me Death is going to result in the death option until our little niche has the general public behind it.
The real danger occurs at the exchange level.
If all you ever do is mine bitcoins, and then either hoard them or trade them directly for goods/services, you *should* be fine.
Once you start turning BTC into fiat, USD particularly.... Expect high levels of scrutiny, sooner rather than later.
King Whitehat is coming.
I dunno'. Miners send out some pretty damned predictable traffic. I don't doubt it could be looked for specifically - and I sincerely doubt mining through multiple proxies is feasible for most people at this point, do to latency issues. You'd need some damned good proxies.
