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Just need to take out 7 non-critical geo sync'd satellites.

It's magnitudes more expensive to keep putting them up than to take them down.

You're technically correct, but what's the point of this statement? Is the next reply supposed to be "then the bitcoin billionaires will just put up 100s of satellites"?

This reads a bit like when, as a child, we'd discuss who would win in a fight, Goku or Superman.

Sure, but we're not talking about Super Heroes, but existing entities like China, who only just six months ago shut down all Bitcoin mining inside it's borders in less than a month's time (and who also has anti-satellite capabilities).

I doubt bitcoin 'billionaires' would put more up, because liquidating that much bitcoin would crash their market (considering >70% of trades on exchanges are wash trades) and require them to go against tragedy of the commons.

I'm sure you'd agree that saying that "China did something" absolutely does not imply that any other country on the planet is able to do pull off the same thing.
No, I don't agree, because other developed nations have anti-satellite capabilities as well.

You've either missed the point or are intentionally ignoring the context, because "China did something" is actually "China successfully shut down bitcoin mining inside it's borders and has the capabilities to shut down these satellites if it chose to do so".

That's not debating super heroes or even saying other countries will do it. If China saw these as a problem, they will likely deal with them.

It's probably politically easier to have agents drive around neighborhoods looking for suspicious antennas and disappearing people who have them or know how to build them. But still that is much more difficult than blocking access at the ISP level.