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@ mleku
2025-05-08 16:12:34
in the coming 5 years or more, we are going to see a lot more frequent incidents of long term power grid failures. the three we just had, iberian peninsula, bali and puerto rico, are just the opening act, and the auroras of may and october last year were the advertisments
in times when widespread, country-wide power grid outages happen, it is only going to be persistent, decentralised network systems that still work for people. these systems store data across many replicas and if there is still juice in the mobile networks and network routers around, they will be accessible, unlike the giant data centers of the likes of google and amazon, whose geographic locations are very sparsely distributed, our nostr and bitcoin nodes will only go dark temporarily and usually later than the rest of the global internet infrastructure because a lot of it is hosted in small, numerous locations.
when these incidents happen, people will talk about it and those of us using nostr and bitcoin will say "oh, i had no problem doing a payment to china or USA during that, or, "it was only offline at my place for a few hours and my optic fibre connection or mobile network connection was barely even down and i was still able to read my social media and pay people".
it will become a whisper among the people that will get louder and louder as the sun drowns the centralised networks in electrons, that will eventually start to see people discovering new things and learning about how these centralized systems are not resilient in the face of bad space weather.