If the White House determines that Chinese sourced electrical transformers, data centers and bitcoin mining hardware is "foreign-sourced equipment potentially capable of facilitating surveillance and espionage activities" we may have a problem.

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There was a big cybersecurity story in 2017 or 2018 that china had been back dooring nearly every piece of hardware coming into the US. There was big talk about completely banning Chinese hardware at that point but nothing every happened. Theoretically, any hardware can be utilized for surveillance if sufficiently engineered to do so in non obvious way. So, if the White House wanted to try to ban any hardware that could be used for surveillance, it’d basically cripple the entire economy. Otherwise, if they tried to single out mining hardware, I feel that would be a relatively easy lawsuit for singling out the industry.
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Rand 1 year ago
IT will transform
Don't fret. Washington is like the bunker in the Reich Chancellory in March 1945. They are issuing decrees and moving around armies on the map that dont even exist. We are witnessing the final collapse. Bitcoin will be fine.
"The reason is because their mining operation is owned by Chinese nationals and is within one mile of a US Military nuclear ballistics facility."
zenophobia always works well with the masses get the licensed thugs hoofing out terrorists desperation setting in watch out for intel systems now running nodes. they are being shutdown remotely. won't even show bios to enable reload. this could be black swan event if done on scale. GM 🙃