Friday, January 7, 2022

Serious Question: is an "offline" lightning network possible? Kazakhstan Related

Probably a dumb question as i think it may be theoretically possible but i am not sure if it's something anybody could do right now and what its limits are, but i'd like the main point to be to open a serious discussion about this:

-Is it possible to exchange bitcoin in a wide area network or even a local area network (or WLAN, whatever) in the event of a government isolating the country from the internet?

-Can People in Kazakhstan exchange bitcoins somehow? if not, is there something we can do about it?

-how resilient is the network in a "disaster" scenario? (internet gone, WANs shut down, only LANs working), would it be possible to exchange bitcoins one device to another over wifi until they can reconnect to the main network? what are the limits?

Sorry if this has been asked before,

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