The internet blackout playbook: How Bitcoin stays alive when banks and card networks go down

In 2019, Rodolfo Novak sent a Bitcoin transaction from Toronto to Michigan without internet or satellite. He used a ham radio, the 40-meter band, and the ionosphere as his relay. Nick Szabo called it “Bitcoin sent over national border without internet or satellite, just nature’s ionosphere.” The transaction was tiny, the setup finicky, and the The post The internet blackout playbook: How Bitcoin stays alive when banks and card networks go down appeared first on CryptoSlate.