Disclaimer: This is merely entertainment. We don’t juggle here we talk Bitcoin, geopolitics, and ways to UPGRADE AMERICA. God bless the first amendment, feel free to be offended. Will Bitcoin survive the nuclear apocalypse? The short answer is yes. We’re in the early stages of World War 3, but it can go nuclear any day now. Russia has annexed Ukraine; China is plotting to take Taiwan and Israel has hinted they may use nukes to stop Iran from obtaining ordnance themselves. When it comes to nuclear war, best practice suggests mutually assured destruction.
This radical principle of deterrence was born in the US and suggests, that a nuclear attack by one superpower would be met with an overwhelming nuclear counterattack such that both the attacker and the defender would be annihilated. Simply put, “You nuke us, we nuke the entire world, and we all go to hell.” Realistically, will there be survivors? Maybe, many of the elites are preparing their underground bunkers as we speak, and I’m sure there will be patches of civilization that will be unscorched or sustain minimal damage. Still, as the world begins to strive for normality after all the nations and their fiat money have crumbled, there will be a new world order and a biometric -CBDC controlled by unelected officials. There will also be Bitcoin, to challenge these neo-tyrants.
They may try to ban Bitcoin transactions and mining, attempt to confiscate it, and futilely strive to destroy BTC. Still, unless you destroy every single decentralized Bitcoin node, you cannot kill the almighty blockchain. Let’s compare Bitcoin’s data storage to that of a powerful corporation. Mega companies with petabytes of big data store their information in data centers across the nation and planet. The idea is to have redundancy in 3 or more locations for Disaster recovery and such.
In the event of nuclear war, with ICBMs, EMPs, or what have you, 3 locations can be compromised in a heartbeat. For example, XYZ Co stores data locally in NYC and has disaster recovery in Houston Texas, and Brasilia, Brazil. Are data centers strategic military targets? In my playbook, yeah. All it takes is 3 flashes and many corporations will go back to chisels and stone tablets. Perhaps after such an event, all companies will turn to blockchain solutions for data storage. Bitcoin’s brilliance lies in its millions of decentralized nodes across the planet, and I wouldn’t be surprised if there were nodes operating in space, via satellite. There are even paper nodes, printing the Bitcoin blockchain. As long as there is a record of who owns what on the blockchain, Bitcoin will live. When these madmen with power and nuclear weapons finally decide to scorch this rock, Bitcoin will survive, if only as a medium of exchange for the cockroaches. Get it, because roaches can survive a nuclear holocaust.
