I've heard that the US couldn't feasibly put up a national firewall because they have waaaay too many outgoing Internet connections.
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You could tunnel the peer-to-peer chat over HTTP port 80
That would be pretty hard to shut down.
That would be pretty hard to shut down.
In the end of the day (unlike bittorrent) we can dig up old modems and FIDO tech. As long as one can place a phone call bitcoin is going to keep working.
+1 good old times 
yea we will just use proxies/tor/encryption etc. and it will all be implemented into the client. Gotta love open source.
nahh.. a few "backbone" bitcoin nodes will connect via ssh tunnels/VPN's and that's it.
They are gonna need to shutdown a bunch of satellites and cut a bunch of undersea cables to get somewhere.
In the end of the day (unlike bittorrent) we can dig up old modems and FIDO tech. As long as one can place a phone call bitcoin is going to keep working.
They are gonna need to shutdown a bunch of satellites and cut a bunch of undersea cables to get somewhere.
In the end of the day (unlike bittorrent) we can dig up old modems and FIDO tech. As long as one can place a phone call bitcoin is going to keep working.
How about connecting via proxy such as the TOR network for one thing?
as I understand it as long as one node in the US could still connect to the outside bitcoin world, transactions could theoretically flow
someone will figure out a way to get through the firewall, "internet in a suitcase" type devices will be in the hands of dissident groups.
long range radio wifi links across the border to Canada maybe?
someone will figure out a way to get through the firewall, "internet in a suitcase" type devices will be in the hands of dissident groups.
long range radio wifi links across the border to Canada maybe?
In a scenario where the USA puts up a national firewall preventing miners/clients in the USA connecting with miners/clients elsewhere, would the blockchain fork into a USA chain and a rest of the world chain? And if so, would my current bitcoins be spendable independently on both chains? And then what would happen when the firewall came down again?
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