121 sats \ 3 replies \ @SwearyDoctor 15 Dec 2023 \ on: Societal collapse... or something else? The Bitcoin Endgame culture
The internet was originally conceived as a decentralized network that could survive nuclear war, but the internet architecture as it exists today will not survive societal collapse. Without the internet, bitcoin will be all but inaccessible (yes, yes, I know there are ways; but the average person can't use those, and if a handful of super maxis have that access, it'll be useless if you can't widely transact in it because nobody else does). So from here alone.. bitcoin's future is predicated on avoiding total collapse...
I think even if major countries societies collapse, the internet infrastructure within thriving Bitcoin-based countries would be stable within themselves. Kind of like a giant LAN at that point, but I don't see any issue with that. Maybe there would be some issues with global nodes and miners being unreachable and so we end up with a split blockchain or something, but that seems far-fetched too.
I don't think all societies in every country will collapse at the exact same time.
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the physical infrastructure of the local internet will be, yes, but the network infrastructure, in a globalized world, is not in that country. Think of how everything in the Western internet runs on AWS. If the US goes down, which is more likely than a global south country going down, this is gone, at least for a while. Also cloudflare. there are some backbones that are not part of these countries, which would be an argument for building a local internet infratructure, as some countries have had to do. (Iran, for instance, will be just fine.)
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ohhhh i see
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