Quote from: Hyena on February 26, 2016, 11:20:59 AM

Quote from: talks_cheep on February 26, 2016, 01:01:24 AM

Do you guys realize if there's thermo nuclear war, the internet won't survive? In fact, any and all electronic gears, including computers, phones, any electronic gadgets will stop working?

$5K??? R U Joking??? We can't seem to get back up to $500, let alone $1k, and U R talking bout $5K??? You must be HYENA.

You realize that a full blown nuclear war is the worst possible scenario that will never happen? The other humanoid species would simply not let that happen. What I am referring to is a false flag nuclear attack or a false flag asteroid hit to a specific location on Earth not the whole Earth. Besides, the Internet was designed to persist during war.

Have some respect for a legendary member, brats. I have seen Bitcoin ever since it was trading 4$ each.[.b] I remember times when a regular PC mined 1 whole bitcoin per day. Now is the time to accumulate cheap bitcoins and physical silver. 5000$ bitcoins are a very pessimistic prediction, a more probable scenario would include at least 10 000$ bitcoins since it would account for human psychology, fear of missing out and panic buying.

The Internet was not designed to persist during a nuclear war.:

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5 It was from the RAND study that the false rumor started claiming that the ARPANET was somehow related to building a network resistant to nuclear war. This was never true of the ARPANET, only the unrelated RAND study on secure voice considered nuclear war. However, the later work on Internetting did emphasize robustness and survivability, including the capability to withstand losses of large portions of the underlying networks.

(ARPANET was "an internet", a network-of-networks. It grew to become the pre-eminent internet now known as The Internet.)

...and $4 BTC? Pah, get off my lawn! It took me 4 days to mine my first 50 BTC with a CPU, and they were only worth $0.10! I kinda forgot about Bitcoin after that, until Slashdot ran a story about Dollar-parity ("OMG! How can magic internet money be worth more than the Dollar? It's unpossible!").