The speculation is pretty straightforward in my book. The federal government tries to pull strings and manages to identify Blockchain based business and slow down their networks, or worse, slam them shut altogether.
Despite US seeing Bitcoin as a legally taxable asset (classified as a property) they have from time to time tried to denounce us - the bitcoin community and also denounced blockchain as a useful tech solution.
i suppose it's possible. the government would have to pressure the ISPs, and the ISPs would have to comply. but i don't see this being particularly effective unless they simultaneously start throttling all VPN traffic. VPN traffic is easily identifiable, but it would hide the fact that your traffic is BTC-related.
i won't lie, i'm pretty worried about a crackdown on VPNs.
Then the question remains, how major would that impact be to the whole network? Assuming it takes a shit ton of money to redirect only Blockchain traffic to such 'information highways'; would it be worth it?
Could we possibly see a Bitcoin Backed ISP that only caters to crypto tech?
knowing bitcoiners, it seems almost probable. whether that's successful, i'm not sure. they'd probably be putting a target on their back for regulators. i sure wouldn't want to be involved.