Bitcoins and the zombie apocalypse

[timk225]

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.........

[12345mm]

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 ...

[HI-TEC99]

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.

[DarkHyudrA]

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.

[AtheistAKASaneBrain]

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 ...

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.

[12345mm]

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 ...

[BillyBobZorton]

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.........

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.

[Q7]

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.

[majeis]

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

[--Encrypted--]

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..  

in both case bitcoin will be gone, so yeah

[btcbobby]

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.. 

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.

[indiemax]

A question you should ask yourself in the first place: why would you need currency in case of an apocalyptic event?

If the world goes crazy nobody will care about terms like fiat, investment, banks. People will be stealing bottled water and meds, not gold and silver.
We'll go back to barter - the most basic form of exchange.

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

ideal to clinch the deal when bartering 

[galbros]

A question you should ask yourself in the first place: why would you need currency in case of an apocalyptic event?

If the world goes crazy nobody will care about terms like fiat, investment, banks. People will be stealing bottled water and meds, not gold and silver.
We'll go back to barter - the most basic form of exchange.

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.

[HI-TEC99]

A question you should ask yourself in the first place: why would you need currency in case of an apocalyptic event?

If the world goes crazy nobody will care about terms like fiat, investment, banks. People will be stealing bottled water and meds, not gold and silver.
We'll go back to barter - the most basic form of exchange.

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.

[L]

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.

[timk225]

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

[franky1]

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 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

[needFREElunch]

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.

[Kprawn]

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. 

[Lauda]

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

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?