This is a stumbling block for most people in the Bitcoin rabbit hole. It's like, okay, Bitcoin is a joke. Oh, maybe it's not a joke. It's actually a significant innovation. Well, if it's that significant, then the government's just not going to let it happen. And that seems to be a really major stumbling block for many people, or they get stuck on that point. But this is sort of a testament to that. It's like, look, government has tried to stop Bitcoin.

And what indeed happened? Well, it caused the mining to become more decentralized, right? More

globally distributed as a result of one government trying to stamp down on it.

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