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 If the White House determines that Chinese sourced electrical transformers, data centers and bitcoin mining hardware is "foreign-sourced equipment potentially capable of facilitating surveillance and espionage activities" we may have a problem.

https://www.tftc.io/white-house-executive-order-bitcoin-wyoming/ 
 good grief we cant have anything nice 
 lol. One day, the wind blowing from the Pacific Ocean may also be censored, because it blows from the far east. 
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 there is & was a problem b 4 Bitcoin 
 LFG! 
 There was a big cybersecurity story in 2017 or 2018 that china had been back dooring nearly every piece of hardware coming into the US. There was big talk about completely banning Chinese hardware at that point but nothing every happened. 

Theoretically, any hardware can be utilized for surveillance if sufficiently engineered to do so in non obvious way. So, if the White House wanted to try to ban any hardware that could be used for surveillance, it’d basically cripple the entire economy. Otherwise, if they tried to single out mining hardware, I feel that would be a relatively easy lawsuit for singling out the industry. 
 Don't fret. Washington is like the bunker in the Reich Chancellory in March 1945. They are issuing decrees and moving around armies on the map that dont even exist. We are witnessing the final collapse.  Bitcoin will be fine. 
 They are stupid enough to do such thing 
 It’s like the bully picking on the little guy, and getting a whooping https://image.nostr.build/cf18723689ec7fcc9091ba610af202c108f02047dd19628c7c83f5984565fb9c.jpg  
 build a @SeedSigner from common parts to avoid ending up on a list 
 "The reason is because their mining operation is owned by Chinese nationals and is within one mile of a US Military nuclear ballistics facility." 
 zenophobia always works well with the masses
get the licensed thugs hoofing out terrorists
desperation setting in

watch out for intel systems now running nodes. they are being shutdown remotely. won't even show bios to enable reload.
this could be black swan event if done on scale.

GM 🙃   
 Fortunately, the "white house" won't be manned by these corrupt idiots much longer. 
 IT will transform