I wonder - In worst case scenario if we get huge sun eruption that hits directly earth and burns all electronic and cuts power what happens with #Bitcoin ? I guess all nodes, PCs, miners, satellites goes down. What remains? Are we protected in some way so after electricity and later internet is turned ON we can restart from last known backup?
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Yes. Nodes would stop validating anything. So after we are back online, we would resume as normal.
Yes but my question is - would we come back? Using what backup if everything is burned worldwide?
Has someone tried printing out the timechain?
maybe we just need some kind of Noah Ark for timechain updated every week/month. IDK how those solar energy works to speculate but probably there's some material that's non penetrable by it and could host few HDDs. Times 10 worldwide in secret locations or random Bitcoiners and we're kinda secured as long as we didn't save our seed phrases online somewhere 🤣
I don't think in the scenario you describe it even matters. Assuming there are survivors, it'll take years (perhaps whole generations) for humanity to build technology where bitcoin is even feasible. When that happens, who will care about the ownership of coins that belonged to people who are long gone? It'll probably make more sense to start a new timechain
