It's not working. I watch the livestreams daily. Granted, I'm "privileged" in the sense of having unlimited broadband, etc. etc. but that's a pretty low hurdle for most people in the English-speaking world to jump. Point is that if this is supposed to "black out" the news of the Convoy... it's not working, in fact, it's only drawing more attention to it. This is the exact same boobie-trap they walked into with Trump, over and over...
There's a significant difference in that Canadian infrastructure is well-developed and Canadian culture has quite a bit of commonality with US culture in terms of values (specifically, freedom and independence). So the same shit that will fly during a military occupation in the ME isn't going to fly here, at least, not without getting the attention of the normies. Which is the point.
Go left or go right, either way, it's
CHECKMATE, DS
If planet Earth is hit by a knockout CME, yes, it would effectively shut down Bitcoin. But it will also shut down the entire global communications grid, including government, military and banking. So, the possibility of such scenarios can't be treated as a risk that uniquely affects Bitcoin. The real question is how "targetable" is the Bitcoin network and the answer is... it's extremely difficult to kill. The problem is that the nodes are sprawled everywhere, even across hard geopolitical boundaries... there are large numbers of bitcoin nodes in China, Russia and the US (not to mention scattered all over the rest of the globe). Japan is the single largest and fastest-adopting nation in terms of Bitcoin use and you can walk into many shops and restaurants and buy day-to-day goods and services using your phone with a Bitcoin wallet installed on it (no conversion to Yen, just direct, hand-to-hand BTC payment).
It appears that Russia "gets it"... namely, that crypto is not in the interests of the current ruling globalist Establishment, which they oppose. Just today, news dropped that they are planning to acknowledge crypto as
legal currency. I'm wondering if El Salvador may have been a testbed for them, in that respect.
China is hard to predict. They were the #1 global miner for some time. But now they're cracking down and it looks to be pretty serious. They may have had a plan all along to mine (from Chinese government perspective, it's free money) and then switch tack when the mining rewards started to decline and establish their own central bank crypto, by force. They certainly seem to wield enough power to be able to do that.
The US is bipolar -- we invented it, we popularized it, we kind of use it (in certain downtown districts you can pay for day-to-day goods and services), but we also have the headquarters of the globalist banking system here, and that is the true target of crypto. So I think that the Beast is flailing around right now trying to figure out how to respond to Bitcoin. I was tracking the mempool flood attacks that occurred in 2017 where they were literally doing a kind of "economic DDoS attack" on the Bitcoin network. What I believe they were doing is transferring hundreds of millions of dollars from themselves to themselves (one wallet to another wallet, both owned by themselves) in order to jam the network, and at the same time, they were pumping "Bitcoin" Cash
hard. For a while their, BC was approaching price levels that were a non-negligible percentage of Bitcoin. But in the end, they lost that battle. But it goes to show that they are trying
everything possible to kill this network. They know it spells doom for the Fed-based banking system.
Back to your question: If there are network outages in local areas, you can use a device called "OpenDime" (or something similar) to trade offline Bitcoins. These are secure devices that allow you to "one-time load" Bitcoins into them. From there on out, the device just holds those Bitcoins and can be traded hand-to-hand securely. The device is tamper-evident/tamper-proof, meaning, if some tries to hack the Bitcoins out of it, the device is designed to show evidence of this, or just lock out completely. Also, anyone with an offline copy of the blockchain can verify that the device is legitimate as of the last block fetched from the blockchain. I wouldn't treat it as absolutely bulletproof, but it's good enough to cover the gap of network outages, and so on, such as during a natural disaster, national emergency, etc. Casascius coins were the original version of this and I wish they would bring those back. I think the original denominations (25 BTC in some cases) were too large for practical use, but smaller denominations could absolutely be used in hand-to-hand BTC transactions.
