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by superkuh 1944 days ago
Bitcoin infrastructure is distributed widely across the world. No single country disappearing off the face of the earth entirely would take it down before the internet itself went down.
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Assuming Thanos would snap away China (the whole land not just the people) bitcoin definitely could be considered "down" because it would no longer mine blocks every 10 minutes on average. Difficulty does adjust but that take weeks. the internet would not be effected like that.