Bitcoin: The Ultimate Resilient Protocol

Bitcoin is a nuclear, hardened protocol. It's pretty much the most robust, resilient thing

the human race has yet to invent. It's running on tens of thousands of nodes.

You can't even identify the nodes, and there's an identical copy of the Bitcoin ledger on every

one of them. So if all of the electricity got shut off everywhere on Earth,

and every computer failed everywhere on Earth for 10 years, the protocol just

goes dormant for 10 years, and as soon as one person turns one node back on,

the entire protocol comes back to life again. There's nothing like that.

All your money in a bank in Bank of America could be wiped out with, you know,