“bitcoin needs electricity” and “bitcoin needs an internet connection” make sense at first, but bitcoin is a protocol that can live over radio and offline. Bitcoin can be transacted with physically and offchain, and nodes can work connecting to eachother via radio, satellite or… just don’t connect, and keep up with their chains. When communication lines are available again, the longest chain is the good one and the ledger reorganises itself.
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People may thing having gold is better than having bitcoin on a blackout-like situation, but being honest, you also are gonna need a working connected infrastructure to use gold as your daily coin. Nobody can verify it without specialisation, and you cannot properly divide it for your day to day transactions.
If and only if you find another with that know how. Anyone will take gold and silver. And if they won't, well, that's not a 'me' problem. That's the problem of one who will not make it very long.