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RE: $1,000 STEEM: Understanding Ecosystems Is The Key
Blockchain is decentralized so no government can touch it. It is impossible to do.
D.Tube and Steemit obviously can be hit by government action depending upon the countries they are in since they are actual companies.
But then again, there are other companies that could pop up outside US hands.
I hope so. I’m so sick of government sticking its nose in my business. I feel like I can’t even breathe.
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Government can touch the applications connected to it. And these are the entrance points where money is made. I deed, this is one of the most week points of steem. Put enough illegal content on the blockchain and anyone who is hosting, processing, viewing or - a especially european invention - even 'enabling access to - it, is commiting crimes and/or can be held for damages.
Only if the application is in an area the government can enter.
And again, it is only an interface to the blockchain...it Steemit got taken down, for example, developers could put up 3 more interfaces on Github to use that could be downloaded by anyone.
The developers can create interfaces quicker than the governments can play merry-go-round trying to take down apps.
They may not be able to close it down entirely, but the FED could probably do a lot of damage to steemit if they wanted to: there are less than 200 witnesses who run the servers, and most of those are in the States and many are nonymous (Jerry Banfield's even posted videos of where he lives on YouTube); in the grand scheme of things it's not that many people for the government to intimidate.
And you could get another vote another 125 witnesses in instantly if they went after them.
Hell, if push came to shove, there is even the ability to fork the entire blockchain and airdrop other tokens.
Yes, fair enough... but I do wonder how many people would be that committed in the face of state violence?