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Ethereum’s Censorship Trial by Fire

The Breakdown

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The Treasury Department Isn't Content With the Facto Filtering at the Inter Face Level

Etherians are threatening to sanction slash validators like coin base if it complies with the law and filters sanction transactions. But there is no actual slashing rule on a theorium, any imposition of one taking away stake tokens from validators would be contrived in arbitrary, effectively unconstitutional. A newly imposed slashing rule spirited from thin air, imposed against the crypto world's largest financial institution, no less would be far more damaging. One of the distinct advantages public block chains have over their legacy counterparts is their genuine neutrality. An expropriation of coin basis funds, as directed by, say, vitalic buderin or others in the small community of etherium leaders, would discredit any commitment

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