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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: what happens to Bitcoin if internet goes down?
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USB-S
on 16/12/2015, 23:24:45 UTC
The whole world will have a bigger problems than BTC
Internet can't go down that easily with simple attack or accident. The only reasons I can think of that can cause WHOLE network to fail are:

1. EMP attack of a large scale (and that won't affect whole internet, but can affect whole country)
2. Solar Flare Effect - the most dangerous catastrophe which can happen to us (this will however turn off ALL electricity on planet Earth down).

So with with internet down I would be worried more about my life than anything else as crisis preceding this event will most likely be huge.
I think internet is as far as, you can't really turn off the internet without turning off the electricity. Since pretty much every place is connected somehow.