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Crypto can be extremely political if those who mine get to decide what goes on the blockchain.

Let's say Dalai Lama decided to follow MicroStrategy with a 400M purchase.

His BTC could be near unusable if China were to control some amount over 50% of mining capability.

How could that happen? The blocks you mine you simply not process any of "undesirable transactions".

If any of the lesser miners find a block and try to add a transaction to the ledger you perform a double spend attack.



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