@DrYuriMom lots of people in that whole system and if you watch congress's talks on that

you may have a differnt pOV

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWQmQ_0Ovxs

but bitcoin was kind of built so that you can use it even when it's illegal

it's just like torrents or any other p2p

yeah

so everyone is right, in a way, it just depends on context

long as users want it , it will be on nodes.

it's blockchaining fam

How would you feel if government took over crypto? Maintained the chains on government servers?

I'd kick the gubmint in the but 😡

@DrYuriMom it's not possible unless they come and shoot me to death and some how find my keys.

that would just mean someone would fork it immediately and take the copy back

im concensus node top 20

and they have to come kill me, find my keys

I mean make all other forms illegal

and government would run an empty network nobody uses

and then do that to 16 other people in my network

Again, I'm not supporting this. I'm probing my cynicism.

that are also voted to be in the top 20

it will be very hard @DrYuriMom

bitcoin cash only exists because some people got angry at original bitcoin programmers, so they forked off

17 people would have to be murdered / kidnapped all around the world.

and their keys taken

the same would happen if government took over bitcoin, and it would happen immediately

and no one in the network find out

@NativeInterface cant take it over..

If non-approved crypto were illegal I expect the value would plummet and no one would care about those keys

they can try to change the code or fork the code to govt code. no one will run it though.

We'e already seen new blockchains started

The gov't could start from scratch

well they could point guns at bitcoin core programmers and force them to implement taxation functions or something
but then the coin would lose all value and people would use bitcoin cash instead

@DrYuriMom well india banned them

so you cant buy crypto there unless you do it on the black market

@NativeInterface it dont work like that

Exactly what i have noted too

if they point guns at developers

and the miners see a new codebase

guess what we do?

dont update

we read the code.. say SCAM