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You can't easily "ban" these things, since it's a decentralised P2P system. The whole point is to prevent anyone (original creators, banks, a government, etc.) from being able to interfer with it. It does mean the system fails like that.


Everyone is free to ignore whatever block chains they want to. I can refuse to honor blocks built off what I consider fraudulent block chains.


Would you able to trade with people who hadn't ignored those bloc chains?




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