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Government forks bitcoin, adds the ability for a trusted address to add more coins. Kills anyone who doesn't switch.

Welcome to China, you just lost the majority of your mining pool.



All governments would have to follow suit in lock step for that to work, at which point you have far bigger problems, i.e why not just nuke the internet all together, far easier.


that's just a normal bank with more steps. why even use bitcoin infrastructure when credit cards and digital banking is much easier/faster in this case?




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