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Or you could set up a geographically separated multisig wallet and go for a walk to find a good place to geocache some key shards split up using Shamir's secret sharing. Or, if you want to consider a no Internet situation, it's way easier than you think to get a Ham radio Technician's license (General isn't bad either -- Extra is). Never hurts to have permissionless comms handy. A Baofeng GT-5R, which is good for a few miles anyway, can usually be had for <$20... The longer range HF stuff does admittedly break the budget a bit more, especially if you're smart and don't get a QRP (low power) radio. They're great to have for doomsday when energy isn't abundant but they're finicky as hell when you're learning your way around. www.hambook.org and www.hamstudy.org if you're interested. I got my Technician license after a few days of very casual study for $5 by testing over Zoom.

funny you should mention ham radios. i keep get advertised these things. i must be in their marketing demo. i do need to do the key thing. it's much more useful than worrying about banks closing and atm networks not working... i'm not really a doomsday prepper, more like a bankers holiday shutdown prepper. I'm pretty sure it's silly to worry about that though, because they will just print/loan money to make sure the system keeps liquid and the public will find out later via inflation. that was the point of a podcast i heard recently: 2008 response took 8 months, covid took 2 days. last bank failures response took overnight. so they won't let it fail when they don't have to. thanks for the ham radio suggestion, i'm going to look into it.

I too believe any bank crisis will be met quickly. What will fail isn't the network, but rather, the value of the currency. The Fed seems to have realized that continuity is far more important than stable value, at least when it comes to maintaining maximum employment. If you really want more on the radio thing that ties it back to nostr and bitcoin, check out nostr:npub1uwh0m2y8y5489nhr27xn8vkumy8flefm30kkx3l0tcn0wss34kaszyfqu7 's episode on nostr:npub10atn74wcwh8gahzj3m0cy22fl54tn7wxtkg55spz2e3mpf5hhcrs4602w3 where he discussed his project Hamstr, which can be found here: https://github.com/LibertyFarmer/hamstr The episode is available here: https://fountain.fm/show/p8WM5xdhPOB2YrKmP1Vy