Yet short after, people were trolling by sending coins there with messages. So if governments have control of Bitcoin, why are they being made a mockery instead of blocking these transactions? exactly, because they can't do shit about it, proving it is decentralized.
You made several good points in your reply to the other message, but I'd just like to ask : couldn't the people sending money to these addresses be held liable in the US?
If people are caught trolling sanctioned BTC addresses wouldn't the US government simply consider it some form of complicity?
I find it kind of amusing that people would troll the govt like this using the power of cryptos to send money anywhere, but when cryptos are finally regulated wouldn't this be considered illegal?
Well, the way I understand it is that it is already illegal. Or do they need to pass a law strictly that says "this and that specific address are illegal?" The way I say it is that a law already exists that censors sending money to whatever they add on that their list.
Obviously, I wouldn't risk doing illegal things, but the point here is, the Bitcoin protocol doesn't care about any laws beyond the laws governing the protocol itself, and these transactions just prove it not only in theory but in practice. It matters not how many laws they pass about it, as long as there's people ballsy enough to transact, the network goes on and will do whatever their users want to do.
