This might be an odd one but wanting to hear views on it.
Bitcoin has great use as value preservation and as a transactional tool (though I hold the value preservation use is the stronger of the two).
In the event of larger scale war, between cyber, nuclear and EMP threats what’s the network and wallet resilience look like?
The defence is its distributed nature I suppose, if the UK did find itself without energy to run mining rigs the network still operates. Even if a hardware wallet was fried by EMP the network recalls public key so recovery (as long as private key retained) should be possible.
As long as no single entity has control of 51% of the networks processing power it is safe. What if someone targetted DDOS style, where changing the blockchain wasn’t the aim, it was merely to render it inoperable by throwing so much noise at nodes/miners they couldn’t process requests?
Maybe a daft question but it’s just occurred to me and I’m curious what I’m missing and others thoughts on it.
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