[patio11]

Maybe they're attempting to make the peer-to-peer network resistant to partitions caused by what is commonly called the Great Firewall Of China? In that case, they are not crazy to think that would draw adversarial attention.

Mentioned more-than-obliquely here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4l564f/bitcoin_cor...

(I have not been following this issue in close detail.)