I think what could hurt it most, besides the loss of people using Bitcoin that died in the disaster, would be if the Internet got split into two or more significant non-interconnected groups for a prolonged period of time; any coin mined during the period is under the risk of eventually being wiped from existence when the Internet becomes one once again.
I wonder what would happen to Bitcoin if Earth went in the bullseye of a severe solar storm of the type that not only fries satelites but also lights on fire electrical, telephone etc wires closer to ground (some time ago telegraph wires went aflame under such an event)
I wonder what would happen to Bitcoin if Earth went in the bullseye of a severe solar storm of the type that not only fries satelites but also lights on fire electrical, telephone etc wires closer to ground (some time ago telegraph wires went aflame under such an event)
If all of our electrical equipment ceased to work. I doubt there would be much of a world left, let alone bitcoin.
Police and authoritarian figures couldn't communicate. TVs couldn't sooth the public back to sleep. It would be mayhem.
I would expect many of them to have equipment that can withstand EMPs, directed energy weapons etc to a significantly greater extent than comercial and private devices.
Yes, they do. So do I. It's not particularly difficult to build a small faraday cage to store your ham radio in, while it's not in use. And I learned the cheap & easy tricks to do that while in the USMC attached to a Communications Company
