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Alright I'm at a loss currently....my mother in law keeps arguing with me about #Bitcoin her main point is that if the ledger uses the internet in order to sync and legitimate itself.

What happenes to the Bitcoin protocol if the internet is wiped out i.e. solar flare emp attack, or grid destabilizing.

I haven't been able to answer this question because in reality I don't know the truth.

The way I understand it is that without a network i.e. the internet bitcoin cannot sync nor can it connect to other nodes in the network, so the ledger itself would only be backed up to the point of failure. (When the network was attacked) As long as one node still has the entirety of the protocol and ledger then you could restart from that pount. But theoretically Bitcoin is rendered useless during the time that the internet is down. That's my take.

Is there in fact a way bitcoin could operate without the connection or am I correct in my assumption?

If I have this completley wrong please tell me what and where I've gone off course.

Thanks plebs

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l0k1 2y ago 💬 2

A lot of the internet, namely optical cable runs and undersea cables will keep running. Some of them are accidentally or intentionally shrouded in a faraday cage, or are entirely underground/water. Those will survive. The restoration of functionality will likely take weeks but a lot of the network will likely return to full function within months. All the parts of the transport network that don't involve expensive computer control systems that were ungrounded and unshielded will be able to resume.

Yes, we would be in a bad situation. Half the satellites in the sky would drop dead, at least, and fall out of orbit. Tightly controlled logistics systems would come unraveled. There would be civil unrest and much of it would be offline.

This is part of the reason why it is essential some people start thinking about the idea of building caches of essential data that are shielded against a Carrington event.

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Justawook 2y ago

See that makes sense to me. So it's not impervious to attacks it just has an extremely high resiliency and with the proper amount of backups, safety protocols and security measures you could get the network up and running in such a fashion that the Bitcoin network could begin hashing again.

l0k1 2y ago

I think that it could be up and running no later than general connectivity can be restored to a sufficient number of backbones. A lot of bitcoin infrastructure lives near the backbones so it only takes like 50 or so nodes all there and without a partition and it's back in action.

A series of meteor strikes sufficiently spread across the planet, however, that's game over, for everyone, and everything.