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 I am concerned about mining and censorship. 
What happens if the US + EU + whk ever else the pressure in to it pass a law saying any mining company must only include transactions in their block that are to/from approved addresses? You must follow our Whitelisting/Blacklisting laws or you will be prosecuted. 
 u have any dubt that this will happen??? is already real. 1btc≠1btc. Leviatan can easily track once it lands on a exchange with kyc. Those btc are forever in the radar if we do not change base layer. 
 Monero fixes this. Or am I wrong? 
 but it is inflacionary. Is not for the same use. 
 What is the other use Bitcoin has? And no Monero is equal to Bitcoin and has a fix Maximum. 
 "Monero has a fixed emission rate, not a set maximum supply. Around May 2022, Monero's emission will drop to and permanently remain at 0.3 XMR per minute (0.6 XMR per block). This is approximately 1% inflation for the first year and will approach 0% inflation in future years. This tail emission allows for permanent incentives to secure Monero, even in the far future, while keeping inflation at a very low percent." 
 bitcoin is deflationary, preserves value. Monery is private, but does not preserve value. Despite being a low rate, is still inflationary. It just depends of what u want. 
 You mean like gold fails to preserve value because of supply inflation? 
 supply inflation and fake supply inflation😂 like the etfs from btc. 
 It's a big world out there and people can mine in other countries if this happens.  
 I hope that it is a big enough world that mining can stay sufficiently decentralized.

Not hard to imagine many different fututes though where censorship comes in to play. I can imagine a future Trump asking why Chinese transactions are included in American blocks. Blockspace sanctions could be a reality.

It will be an interesting dynamic that is for sure. 
 Probably then other blockchains would just gain attractivity. I mean it is opensource. So any blockchain can take the lead at any time. When one chain gets a hit others can profit of this. 
 That's why I'm bullish on solo mining, space heaters, dryers. and water heaters. I've also read stuff about mining with AC units, but it was abopay grade. grade.