[leereeves]

> but the network would never stop, it would serve the black market exclusively

All the computers required to keep Bitcoin running would be an easy target for law enforcement.

[wyldfire]

shrug, difficulty adjusts, asics get smaller, cooler, enclosures designed differently, miners hide them in drywall or wherever we hide prohibited stuff these days.

[and0]

Imagining the scene from the end of Goodfellas, with Lorraine Bracco flushing handfuls of asics down the toilet.

[leereeves]

If Bitcoin becomes such a fringe currency that only criminals use it, what value will it have? Even criminals need to trade for legitimate goods.

[owebmaster]

Criminals have customers so their customers would exchange his money for BTC with another criminal before. I guess it is pretty much like how it works today.

[stale2002]

So now law enforcement has to shut down every Bitcoin node in the world, including the ones that are run exclusively on tor in 3rd world countries, AND shut now any new ones that pop up?