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I always wonder whether blockchain was designed to survive this.
by ttflee 4y ago
I always wonder whether blockchain was designed to survive this.
- timbit42 4y agoA distributed system would survive if the network it was running on had enough redundant paths and bandwidth available to keep a path available after some number of attacks.
- rglover 4y agoYes. Some looney tunes like myself keep backups of Bitcoin on disk (HDD and CD/DVD, the latter being impervious to EMP) with the software/hardware to run them in Faraday cages. Assuming I can find a viable power source post idiot mode, it would most definitely survive. Worst case scenario it may be incomplete, but that'd be expected as consensus would have to be rebuilt anyways.
- FollowingTheDao 4y agoYeah, I am sure Bitcoin will be useful after a 50 kiloton bomb is dropped on any random city. That is definitely what people will want for payment, bitcoin. Not water, food, or toilet paper... bitcoin.
- rglover 4y agoWell yeah, the guy who has a Faraday cage in his closet also has those things. I'm not an amateur.
- fudgefactorfive 4y agoNext you just need to find a BTC to Bottlecap ATM and you're set!
- rglover 4y agoIf we're at that level I will have already switched to marauding with guns.
- throwaway290 4y agoWhatever resiliency blockchain has, would it be relevant if there's no Internet or equivalent?
- tenebrisalietum 4y agoBlockchain over UUCP.