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>>20743823
>This might actually be how the government would catch people who illegally use bitcoin after a ban. Just monitor the smart meters on people homes and if a house is drawing to much power over a long period of time they might execute a search warrant to see if there is a computer there running on the blockchain.
yeah, this coupled with the fact that any underground blockchain would extremely underpowered in terms of computing power compared to what the military - making a takeover very easy, is why I think crypto wouldn't do very well if governments felt threatened by it
gold and silver however can easily be hidden and transacted without anyone knowing