it's had some effects here (madeira) even though we didn't get much blackouts... yeah, there was a blackout though, at least at my place, but everything was fine just up the road so i'm sure it was just shitty wires between me and the town center

anyway, the fun thing is that bitcoin doesn't fix this, because it's also dependent on electricity and the power went out over there longer than the mobile towers batteries last when there is a power cut

what fixes this is not pretending anymore that we are in a situation of stable internet and power supply, because it's going to get worse, a lot worse, over the next few decades, we are just moving up out of solar minimum and it was a geomagnetic phenomenon that caused the widespread blackouts in the iberian peninsula

there was a geomagnetic storm recorded exactly when the power grid started to fail in spain and portugal, but there was no significant activity from the sun at the time, no filament eruptions, no coronal hole blowing solar wind, no coronal mass ejection from a sunspot, nothing, it was quiet by looking at the sun, but GloTEC detected the atmospheric electrical spike at the time as well as NOAA's geomagnetic storm sensing systems

i think that this year we will see an uptick and then it's going to get steadily more frequent for at least the next 5 years, with a dozen or more major power grid failures, you may not have known this but puerto rico had a widespread power problem just before the iberian peninsula, and then there was another one, where was it again... oh yeah, the island of Bali in indonesia.

and this is just warming up, next month it is likely there will be actually more solar activity and if our magnetosphere is weak and full of holes you can expect a lot more times energy coming to ground and shorting out and disrupting power networks