Bitcoin is one of the most robust distributed systems in the history of mankind, ticking along producing a block roughly every ten minutes with very few disruptions.
Reliability of Bitcoin sets a golden standard of expectations for users, leading many to view it as an unstoppable system with inevitability.
While governments can introduce regulations to impact Bitcoin participants, stopping the overall system is challenging as it continues to function globally.
Chinese government's ban on bitcoin mining in 2021 led to a significant portion of the network hashrate going offline, but the network continued to operate.
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