Reading the MaidSafe forum, someone asked how its network would cope if a government or other entity effectively and quietly cut off communications between countries or continents and so created two or more unlinked networks.

So applying the question to Bitcoin, when eventually reconnected, how would these networks join back together and reconcile transactions with one another?

This links to an article about the thoughts the BoE has on crypto currencies and Bitcoin in particular.
It's quite an interesting read in itself, but has links at the end to a couple of BoE reports in PDF format which certainly prove that Bitcoin is under close scrutiny from them.

http://www.managers.org.uk/insights/news/2014/september/boe-warns-higher-uptake-of-bitcoin-could-risk-britains-financial-stability

I've been checking https://www.darkwallet.is/ for updates, but the website seems to have disappeared.
Does anyone know what's happening?