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How Regulation of Bitcoin Mining Results in Complete Government Control of all Bitcoin Globally

Davido Davido
8 min readMar 22, 2022

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Last edited April, 2023

The current version of Bitcoin will not be banned or killed. Instead, it will be converted into another tool of government control. To achieve control of the Bitcoin blockchain, Western governments will jointly regulate the majority of the Bitcoin mining hash rate. They will require all Bitcoin miners in their jurisdictions to confirm only transactions that comply with internationally approved Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) rules. An entity that controls the majority of Bitcoin mining can control the entire Bitcoin blockchain.

“An attacker in control of the majority of the network’s hash rate is capable of manipulating the system at will, i.e., executing double spending attacks, prohibiting transactions from entering the blockchain, and effectively rewriting the transaction history within computational limits.”

From the introduction to: ‘A Deep Dive into Bitcoin Mining Pools an Empirical Analysis of Mining

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Davido Davido

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