There's not going to be any sort of economic calamity where the internet is shut off.   Plus this mystical coin already exists, it's called XEM and is being rewritten this year and released as "catapult" at which point things really get interesting.

Why mess with success?  The market has chosen the future bitcoin killers. ETH, XEM, and maybe XRP... though I don't plan to participate in XRP at this point when XEM is trading at a fraction of the market cap.


There are a dozen or more proof of stake, proof of importance, delegated proof of stake coins out there that all make the same promises... what sets them apart from each other? They could all potentially be good replacements, but XEM already has a head start and it's code is written from the ground up and has not been duplicated in another coin to my knowledge, aside from the work with Mijin they are doing in Japan.