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Centralized money, centralized energy! Blackout!
Even centralized email! The company I work with has shut down their servers so no corporate email despite being in heart of Africa!
I think Cashu works offline, right?
Not really a very good situation even for bitcoin/lightning. Not even GSM worked well.
The only way to pay would be #cashu and that would require a mutual trust.
Bitcoin without electricity is dead.
Imagine the no cash restaurants lmao
Bitcoin needs to figure out a way to do payments without internet, even if it's somewhat trusted. Without electricity would be good too but that's harder.
decentralization cannot be built on a centralized network.
Not really a very good situation even for bitcoin/lightning. Not even GSM worked well.
The only way to pay would be #cashu and that would require a mutual trust.
Modern society without electricity is dead. But at least the bitcoin blockchain stays in a frozen state and is waiting until modern society is back.
Test run for larger scale outage to come?