# Let’s talk about ASIC mining

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**Category:** Mining\
**Created:** [February 24, 2018, 11:15pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/let-s-talk-about-asic-mining/27353 "2018-02-24T23:15:57Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 9, 2019, 9:46pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/let-s-talk-about-asic-mining/27353/5916 "2019-04-09T21:46:12Z")

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I have some experience with communist countries but not with china.  
About Bitmain, they might be a “star” and “name” in crypto, but in chinese business i would consider them just a small to medium company. Nothing more, nothing less…

However, i could imagine there are several steps a government could take to make mining not attractive beside just to forbid it. For example:

- Licenses. Make miners need to obtain licenses with 1001 burdens.  
(in communistic countries it’s easy to make someone wait as long as they want for a license)

- Higher electricity prices for certain businesses.  
(this is done in many countries anyway, nothing new at all)

- Deconnecting/Disturbing internet connections to national/international mining pools.  
(This should be the easiest way in my opinion. They (the chinese) have experience with this.

- Making it illegal to hold crypto.  
(This would automaticly put every miner into the illegal zone, very unlikely but still an option with the license options together)

- Force them to use only self generated green energy.  
(This could be a very solid, even innovative, one that actually makes even sense.)

- Change or make a tax law putting a very high tax rate for crypto mining.  
(From my experience a very popular one in communistic/after-communistic countries)

- 1001 other ways IF china’s government really wants to end crypto mining there they will for sure find a way. Having in mind the chinese law enforcement and duration of a sentence it could get real risky for miners there. But everything here is just speculation. But for sure China has way more options than a pure democratic western country, no doubt here.

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