At some point, people are going to have to realize that crypto only makes sense in the context of a world with an open Internet. If STTF, the open Internet is about the first thing to go away, meaning your crypto isn't going to be available along with your global DNS and your connection to root miners. Shiny rocks might seem like a sillier form of value storage, but shiny rocks don't depend on a global communications internetwork to operate.
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Shiny rock occupies a strange place in the SHTF investment strategy. If you're hedging against a total societal collapse then you want to store value in commodities that are also useful to you absent a market: e.g., beans 'n bullets. Gold is only 'better than crypto' in middle ground where the internet is dead, but society is more or less intact.
@sj_zero @nicholas There was a fellow called Selco who survived Yugoslavia and wrote about this.
He said stockpile hard liquor. It will be in demand, can be traded for anything, and is also a disinfectant.
Also butane lighters were valuable. One person made his living refilling them.
You can buy most of the common antibiotics for fish, but they are the same pills. Those will have trade as well as survival value.
Crypto's use case is getting your money out during an embargo.
