Bitcoin, Ethereum, Monero... are composed of 2 parts :

- The digital currency

- The network

The most important thing is the network, the base layer.

The digital currency will move inside the network according to rules commonly accepted by the network members.

Every transparent ledger (like Bitcoin) disclose the sender, the amount and the receiver, to everyone, instantly. There is no privacy.

Because of that, when a node (relay) or a miner (transactions validator) receive a transaction to include in the blockchain, the member can make the decision to censor the transaction, the transaction will not be relayed to miners or the miner will directly exclude the transaction from the block to build.

If the majority of the network decide to accept all transactions, censorship is impossible, but if the majority of the network make the decision to selectively censor a transaction... 🖕

Bitcoin is censorship resistant for now... but don't forget it can change one day, and I expect it will happen.

Big miners are companies, they are not anonymous at all, they are identified and located, they will comply to the government or they will be shutdown very quickly, especially because the mining is centralized inside big buildings, they can't hide. But of course, don't worry, the government just want to fight money laundering 🤡

Monero mining is done with average PC, anonymously, this is far more complicated to shut down.

And assuming the network will be overtaken, each transactions are anonymous, deal with that 😄