Yeah I was aware of that. It's unclear to me if it's a significant amount or not. Isn't it a question of pool decentralization tho? And not whether there's still physical hash in China? I need a pool to submit my transaction to. But maybe I dont understand the issue well enough. Heres another thought experiment that might be more germane. Suppose I'm a person in the over-regulated New Western Bloc and I want to make a purchase with Bitcoin. But because csam, terrorism etc Western exchanges now require proof of origin of funds. So the merchant I want to exchange with cannot accept my self-custodied SATs. They need to sell for fiat to buy raw materials and cannot take the risk these funds will be rejected. Anyway It seems to me there's a number of different ways it could go, which essentially amounts to sovereign usage being throttled to death.

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There are plenty of pools to choose from they just have low hash. If all the big pools start colluding there are already places to go. Plus necessity is the mother of invention, more pools would spin up. To dominate mining you have to operate the hash. Many many people operate the hash. Xmr had 3 pools essentially, there are many more large pools to choose from with bitcoin. If the use of exchanges is required then doesn't xmr have a much bigger problem? Only exchange I know of is kraken. Even if using Bitcoin p2p is illegal, it still can't effectively be stopped.