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Know what's gonna suck when the world freaks out and zombies arrive?  With people not alive to maintain internet networks, bitcoin will die and even if the internet does maintain for a while, and some groups of people survive, you will find damn few people who will care about anything bitcoin related at that point.

Just keeping it in perspective.........

if the internet ceases to exist , life will no longer be worth living ...

in all seriousness though , it would take an apocalyptic event to knock out the global internet / cause enough chaos that society breaks down ... possible scenarios that would likely do enough damage include massive solar flare , EMP/thermonuclear war , extinction level asteroid impact , alien invasion , viral pandemic event aka zombie apocalypse , and of course the most likely and my personal favorite - the end of the oil based global economy combined with all of antarctica and greenland falling into the oceans and submerging 80% of the human population areas within the next 50 years ... glad i like hiking and know how to swim ...

What about the giant supervolcano beneath yellowstone park in the USA erupting? It's been estimated it would destroy half the USA and block all sunlight out worldwide for years. No food will grow without sunlight and the survivors will mostly starve to death.

What about Sun entering in supernova? Everything would explode and cease to exists.
But talking serious, remember that a "zombie" always starts because a system failure. Only if everything fails zombies would overrun the whole world, what isn't the case. There are high control when talking about biological risks.

If the internet ceases to exist it means it's all over, only some people will be surviving in some sort of mad max post apocalyptic environment where there are no currency, just resources and weapons as the main rulers.

oh yeah that'd probably be enough to destabilize / destroy modern society as well , and i am of course aware of that volcano possibility ... statistically speaking we are "overdue" for that one actually , as well as the asteroid impact ... but i did lazily leave it off the kind of joking half ass list ... also you could have a limited event in yellowstone that mostly impacts the u.s. / northern hemisphere :) ... oh and of course a gamma ray burst from the nearby WR104 should probably make the list as well as that would without warning punch off earth's atmosphere and bath the surface in radiation ...

Once we replace the current internet with our own decentralized internet run by our own computers instead of centralized servers... none of that will be a problem.

Yeah, so what. Similarly I can imagine with no banking system, everyone would be relying on gold to exchange for foods and weapons. A complete barter system based solely on essential items needed for survival. Even the fiats will prove to be useless in this scenario.

It's not sci-fi enough unless your zombie scenario is a direct result of bitcoins.

if internet ceases to exist and zombies arrive (for whatever reason) but nothing else changed, then that would sucks badly for the non-rich people.

if ALL modern technologies ceases to exist and zombies arrive, I would just think positive and see good side. no more being divided by money, less population, less over-spoiled brats, etc..  ;D

in both case bitcoin will be gone, so yeah

But more realistically, I'm in a disaster prone area. And when we're expecting something that'll knock out power, we all go buy water, food, top off the gas tank and withdraw a few hundred from the bank. Bitcoin? That would be a problem, not being able to spend during emergencies that affect infrastructure.

don't forget,most important, your gonna need guns and lots of ammo

ideal to clinch the deal when bartering  ;D

Exactly, canned tuna, water purification pills, and ammo will rule the day.  Of all the threats to bitcoin, I think zombie apocalypse is pretty minor.

In that situation paper money would only be useful as toilet paper, or to boil water with if you had enough bundles to burn. Any electronic networked technology like bitcoin would be useless, although paper bitcoin wallets would come in handy as toilet paper too.

Ya, when the zombie apocalypse comes, bitcoin will be the last thing I think about, keeping my brains safe inside my head will be my top priority. :D

The loss of internet porn will be one of the biggest disasters that could happen.

if an apocalypse was to happen, the internet, bitcoin, bank notes, gold, metal coins, stamps, MTV, blue-ray, LED-tv's would be the least of our worries

If there was a zombie apocalypse I would not really care about bitcoin unless it became the currency of choice due to lack of government but that is unlikely because of the factors you mentioned earlier.

I think a more likely event to destroy BTC could be this : http://www.express.co.uk/news/nature/494438/End-of-world-alert-solar-flares-destroy-earth-scientists-warn

A huge solar flare will cause huge damage and even some smaller EMP's will destroy everything electronic.

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_pulse

I watch "Doomsday Preppers" and I also think BTC would be the least of our problems when a catastrophic event occur.  :( :(

Exactly. How do people not see this? We had similar threads but about a World War, EMP, Solar Flare and whatnot. In most of these scenarios, everything that is worth a lot today, would be worthless.
Who would want to buy diamonds when an army is marching toward your house?

Wasn't there some project that was supposed to launch (or has launched) nodes into the Earth's Orbit?

lol, even the gold or money not worth if zombie apocalypse come.
its all about survive  ;D
but i think some ppl like zombie apocalypse tho bcos zombie games, tv series, etc.. lel
for bitcoin itself i think its no use, is internet networks still on if zombie apocalypse ? i dont think so.

We don't really need zombie apocalypse to feel how bitcoin can be useless and totally worthless. Just leave your big city. And travel somewhere where internet is not present and even electricity is scarcity.
Then you will understand that bitcoin is just currency for the high developed societies. Any kind of natural disaster, war or other abnormal events are the end of bitcoin as we know it.

You mean ... REAL zombies??? Isn't "zombie apocalypse" just a name of a scenario about people in the US starting a revolution?

If THAT would occur we are good with Bitcoin I think.

Why would that be? None of the previous revolutions in the world have been related to “zombies”. Why would this one be?

ew scenario ? i never heard before.
but real zombies eat meats, so zombies eat people then people change to zombies then it comes zombie apocalypse  :o .
thats is what i know.

if zombie apocalypse happen, bitcoin maybe useless.

Nah...aquaponics ;p

Who is not to say that Zombies won't end up using bitcoin at some point. Maybe some smart zombie will form and they will need to have a smart economy. So they will use bitcoin.

Just a theory.

I bet it would be something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F83GtW-FVC8

edit: they bought their guns with BTC

i never heard about zombie scenario before.  ;D
real zombies eat meats, so zombies eat people then people change to zombies then it comes zombie apocalypse   :o
thats is what i know.

if zombie apocalypse happen, internet maybe go shut down and bitcoin itself gonna useless

Don't worry if zombie apocalypse happens just keep your coins in a cold wallet and you'll be fine. You won't need the coins immediately as many of the shops could temporarily close at that point, and after the apocalypse you just import your private keys and good to go as today. And those new satellites will confirm the transactions don't worry  ;)

In case of a zombie apocalypse people would tattoo their private keys on their bodies. If they die or survive, or the modern society is rebuilt, they can have their funds back. If not, they got a cool tattoo anyway.  :P

We should probably save our Electrum seeds in the Doomsday vault for the future - just in case.

another important question: how to get the private keys from the zombie wallets?

This will be the last thing i would be thinking of doing when there are zombies trying to eat you, that will be game set and nearly match in the stated scenario and we would not give a bleep about bitcoin and those who did would quickly die. Find safe shelter, guns perishable food and a water filter/source. Nothing else matters not even our beloved bitcoin Sad Lets see what the future holds ;0)

i would not care about bitcoin even if im rich , i would care about my life . so yes bitcoin will destory if zombie apocalypse happend.
but its wont happend , no logic .

Using the protocol defined in RFC 1149?

I think we have bigger issues than bitcoin if that scenario unfolds, but yes, it won't be of much use, you are correct.