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 #asknostr if russia breaks the cables under the sea and cut the internet ? to europe for example, #bitcoin become useless to have. thoughts? 
 #asknostr if russia breaks the cables under the sea and cut the internet ? to europe for example, #bitcoin become useless to have. thoughts? nos.lol 
 #asknostr if russia breaks the cables under the sea and cut the internet ? to europe for example, #bitcoin become useless to have. thoughts? a.nos.lol 
 Wrong :-) because after a time we could decide to loose some blocks or run 2 versions, but overall this will work out somehow. 
 Satellites 
 but for most it would be useless. but it would create a run to get starlink alike 
 Don’t think this will ever happen, Russia uses bitcoin to workaround sanctions, and settle international payments, why would they cut themselves out 
 Not much to think about. 

There are over 500+ undersea cables and more coming online every month. The Internet (and networks in general) are designed for resiliency and redundancy. Unless Russia could cut every last one, it's simply a fool's errand. Further, the cutting of cables would have significant economic impact to themselves as well as many of their allies. 

Lets just say if they embarked on this suicide mission, they would get rolled by the time they cut the first one. Again. Fool's Errand.

This sort of thing is floated by folks that simply don't have the technical knowledge to realize how beetleheaded it really is. 
 I think, you don’t know how the Internet works. To shutdown the Internet/Bitcoin is only possible by shutting down electricity at least 98% worldwide. 
 putin said he is going to cut the undersea cables to leave uk and Europe with no Internet.