It is my understanding that blocking bitcoin is not all that hard if you have control over ISPs like a corrupted government would have.
It's magnitudes more expensive to keep putting them up than to take them down.
This reads a bit like when, as a child, we'd discuss who would win in a fight, Goku or Superman.
I doubt bitcoin 'billionaires' would put more up, because liquidating that much bitcoin would crash their market (considering >70% of trades on exchanges are wash trades) and require them to go against tragedy of the commons.
You've either missed the point or are intentionally ignoring the context, because "China did something" is actually "China successfully shut down bitcoin mining inside it's borders and has the capabilities to shut down these satellites if it chose to do so".
That's not debating super heroes or even saying other countries will do it. If China saw these as a problem, they will likely deal with them.
Let's say (company names are just examples, I don't necessarily think those particular companies will do it) government-controlled ISPs blocked access to the core protocol. Google (over SSL + Secure /Encrypted DNS) might provide a gateway. GitHub can. Microsoft can. Apple can. AWS can. Facebook can. What can the government do then? Blocking those is effectively blocking the whole Internet. Eventually governments will realize that it can't be practically blocked.
One of those things seem more likely than the other.
They will eventually have to embrace it, or collapse economically.
there's a reason why Orwell said a boot stamping a human face forever instead of a boot stamping a human face until it became economically disadvantageous to do so.
More constellations are underway: https://observer.com/2021/11/boeing-astra-space-startups-eye...
Starlink transforms the internet more than people realize
Then they are left with chasing anyone who has any radio equipment outside the cities.