“Governments are good at cutting off the heads of a centrally controlled networks like Napster, but pure P2P networks like Gnutella and Tor seem to be holding their own.” - Satoshi Nakamoto
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They basically made it a pain in the ass to find a torrent file, shut down any centralized service that makes it easier, or force them to use shady hosting that makes them hard to distinguish from phishing sites, etc.
Exactly! Centralized networks are easy targets. Chop off the head, and the body falls.
But with P2P, it's like a hydra – cut off one node, and the rest keep trucking along.
Bitcoin's got that P2P magic. It's resilient, distributed, and no single point of failure means it keeps on ticking. That's the power of decentralization for ya!