Quote from: acener on June 03, 2018, 11:14:10 AM

Quote from: solve_it on September 28, 2017, 02:58:58 PM

We hear in the news that many people in countries that have currency issues are starting to trade in BTC - for example, Venezula.

My friend asked me what about in regions where they lose electricity, how would they trade with BTC?

For example Puerto Rico is right now devastated by the hurricane, and many parts of its region don't have electricity. A lot of people need to buy food and even fresh water.

Is there a way to still trade with BTC in such situations?

Can P2P trade still occur despite having any connection to the greater block-chain network? Keep in mind that it's easy to charge mobile phone so they have access to wallet apps, but probably not the Internet.

I don't know too much about mobile data networks, but I doubt one's 4G/LTE data plan would work in such situations. I assume that data would have to be relayed to a tower/dish before it's sent to satellites. Am I correct?

We couldn't do anything about it because electricity is one of our major requirement to access cryptocurrency. I believe that it is really important for us to have an stable internet and an electric source. If we don't have it, we must have atleast an alternative like solar energy supply or generator.

As electricity has become a basic necessity of our lives because all the things that we are having equipped in our houses do operate on this electricity and if electricity wouldnt be present, I think we will not be able to access many good things in our lives. Crypto currency is a digital thing and all the digital things also operate on electricity which means that if we would have no electricity, we would have no crypto currency.