They will try to gain control in one way or another. Just imagine that in some way you are able to control most aspects. The biggest power anyone ever had? Fortunately you can only control 1 thing: - Your keys

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But the free market aspect of bitcoin should be able to outcompete that. They can try to organize themselves on an international level but if your addresses get blacklisted you can just increase your fees. It's not ideal for sure but at some point some miner thinks this will be to good to ignore and enforcing blacklisted addresses seems a very futile endeavor since you can easily hide the traffic of your mining operations through tor or a vpn.