Us Seizes 15b Btc, Indicts Chairman: Forced Labor Scam Compounds, Crypto Fraud
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The US Justice Department has seized $15 billion in Bitcoin and indicted the chairman of a company accused of operating a forced labor scam in Cambodia, highlighting concerns over crypto regulation and human trafficking.
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If sufficient mining power prefers software versions with specific consensus rules, the rules are effectively changed. By a "they".
If a quorum of miners decide to run hard fork changes, then they just disappear from the network once the changes trigger. No miner can force a user to change their consensus rules.
A soft fork is different. But increasing the bitcoin issuance can never be a soft fork.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45580981