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September 17, 2017, 04:32:32 AM

https://twitter.com/btcdrak/status/908998917995552776

This is annoying even if unverified.  Now supposedly the Great Firewall of China is supposed to block all foreign BTC exchange.
For those who can read Chinese and something not discussed in that thread, there is a note inside that document about how
to use Layer 1 firewall to stop Bitcoin client updating the blockchain, prevent synchronization, and miner contributing to the
distributed ledger. 

I am not a technical person, but can Blockstream type satellite/lnb setup be blocked by the Great Firewall?  Though supposedly
Blockstream only beam the block headers, would it be useful for mining pool to use it to sync and broadcast to the network?
It would be really bizarre (not to mention karma) if Antpool had to work with Blockstream to bypass Great Firewall of China.   Roll Eyes