When the US and Chinese governments decide to do so, they can just say to the people running Foundry and Antpool that only whitelisted addresses can receive transactions. The industrial miners, who are using those pools and the Antpool proxies specifically because they're easiest to be compliant with aren't going to bat an eye. They're not going to have any of their own transactions stopped in the mempool. So it's the industrial miners that you're counting on to be altruistic if you want them to remain censorship resistant, which just isn't going to happen. We need more high hashrate home miners specifically because it's their transactions that are going to be rejected when this happens. It's actually the home miner who is more self-interested when he mines specifically to keep the network decentralized.
I'm not suggesting that we "require" miners to do anything. I'm suggesting that if we want bitcoin to remain censorship-resistant, in addition to improving privacy options, we need to work on decentralizing mining. Personally, I'm into it for what one might call altruistic reasons as well, but decentralizing mining protects any network user who wants to engage in actual peer to peer transactions.
When the US and Chinese governments decide to do so, they can just say to the people running Foundry and Antpool that only whitelisted addresses can receive transactions. The industrial miners, who are using those pools and the Antpool proxies specifically because they're easiest to be compliant with aren't going to bat an eye. They're not going to have any of their own transactions stopped in the mempool. So it's the industrial miners that you're counting on to be altruistic if you want them to remain censorship resistant, which just isn't going to happen. We need more high hashrate home miners specifically because it's their transactions that are going to be rejected when this happens. It's actually the home miner who is more self-interested when he mines specifically to keep the network decentralized.
I'm not suggesting that we "require" miners to do anything. I'm suggesting that if we want bitcoin to remain censorship-resistant, in addition to improving privacy options, we need to work on decentralizing mining. Personally, I'm into it for what one might call altruistic reasons as well, but decentralizing mining protects any network user who wants to engage in actual peer to peer transactions.