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Which is why bitcoin was always a ready really dumb idea as “end times hedge”


In the "end times" where computers stop working and we don't even have electricity, your dollars in your digital bank account will be equally useless, and dollar banknotes will be used as fire starter.

Bitcoin was never designed as a post-collapse currency.


Dollars work without electricity. Gold works. Bottlecaps work.


One of my friends speculated that bullets will be a great currency at the end of the world.




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