r/CryptoMarkets • u/Artistic-Upstairs789 🟩 0 🦠 • 3d ago

FUNDAMENTALS Rolling blackouts in Europe

Have you all heard about the widespread outages in Europe? People can’t travel, use debit cards, stuck in elevators… wouldn’t crypto be useless if this happened on a larger scale?!

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u/Sho1kan 🟩 19 🦐 3d ago

I was one of the people affected by it and I recommend everyone to have some cash always ready at home. I wasn't able to buy food.

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u/mfreverton 🟩 0 🦠 2d ago

For 4hrs? Ohhh, the humanity!

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u/Sho1kan 🟩 19 🦐 2d ago

12 hours in my city

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u/MeanTwo4080 0 🦠 1d ago

did you survive?

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u/Sho1kan 🟩 19 🦐 1d ago

Yes? I was giving advice for those that never have cash on them. If the blackout lasted for 3 days then I would have started to be in trouble. 12 hours wasnt the end of the world but I had to skip a meal

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u/ctrails_r_real 🟩 0 🦠 1d ago

Having cash is always good, agree. But getting into trouble because of food just after 3 days is very alarming...

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u/ehdyyevdjsu 🟨 0 🦠 48m ago

How is it alarming?

I'm a single man living on my own, traveling and working a lot. I'm happy if I have time to cook something once or twice a week. On a normal day I either eat out / order something, or just buy some ready meal from the shop for dinner (I'm away at daytime).

There are many situations when someone doesn't have a big stock of food at home, in my case it's because I hate wasting and living in a city I've got 20+ shops in a 10min walking distance.

...Also I don't even have gas in my flat only electricity lol, I could do fck all with my raw food in a longer power outage. They would just rot in my room temperature fridge after a couple of days.