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Re:I Wasted 8 Years of My Life in Crypto by JuniperMesos on Monday December 08, 2025 @02:59AM (#46189599)
The internet is more resilient than that. I wouldn't want to live in a country where the banking system has collapsed, and one of the reasons is because I expect that this correlates with unreliability of the power grid; but you can run a lot of useful pieces of software on a computer powered by solar panels and batteries in the wilderness with a satellite uplink, including a bitcoin node.
Re:I Wasted 8 Years of My Life in Crypto by troupo on Monday December 08, 2025 @07:14AM (#46191363)
Ah yes. And everyone in a country that suffers a banking collapse lives in a wilderness with solar power and a sattelite uplink.
Re:I Wasted 8 Years of My Life in Crypto by FabHK on Monday December 08, 2025 @11:53AM (#46194592)
Yes. And if a country with say 200m people suffered a banking collapse, everyone could do a Bitcoin transaction every 40 days (assuming everyone else stopped using it), and would use only about 1% of the world's electricity. Great stuff.