I think people will be begging to be shot to death in the type of world where bitcoin completely dies...and I also believe that most of those beggars will have their wishes granted inside of the first year, assuming that they don't starve or freeze to death before that opportunity arises. Those who die within the first weeks will be the lucky ones.
VERY few in the first world nations have anything in their conditioning to help them in a dog-eat-dog, low/ no tech, survivalist world. Most of us have no idea how animal humans are at the core, when society isn't or it breaks down. As bad as it already is in many third world nations, it would be 10X worse if people in the "western world" had to face a similar environment, as very few of us have honed the skills of our primitive ancestors and the fall from the privileged life would fuel fear and anger like the world has never seen.
All that having been said, I'd likely push through all the hell that I'd face in that scenario and play the game of becoming a demon to remain in the flesh for bit longer, along with anyone else who cares at all to survive. But that's only because I'm a coward to death, not because I'm a strong man.
Haha! Youre probabaly right, in a wild wild west scenario, life is not so happy and extremely hard knocked...but once the dust finally settles, and hope returns...and the sun starts shining upon humanity anew...and trading starts between communities, there will be no need for cash...gold might be too hard to defend, but cryptos and blockchain will provide...if you have internet and a laptop, DMD will work for you as on of the means to facilitate trade. By design it will. And thats all this article is about. Thanks for sharing your intriguing thoughts!
Yeah. I suppose you're right,... about there eventually being a "new birth", at least. Hard to say what kind of "society" will grow out of that or what kind of tech will survive, if any.
If the whole world is sufficiently plundered and/or destroyed by the hopelessly fearful, then there's a chance that not one iota of advanced tech will remain once "the dust settles". Should that be the case, it will be up to the survivors to take steps towards rebuilding the infrastructure or not, and a lot of that decision will come down to whether they're generally accepting of (re-forming) communities or prefer to stick to more of a nomadic lifestyle, which might sound far-fetched, but I don't think it's too unlikely considering the level of hell that they'd face before the sun starts shining again.
A lot, perhaps most, of human behavior comes down to conditioning. When you've been trained by the environment to hide from or kill people passing by, seeing them more as monsters than fellow humans, it isn't going to be an easy process to start opening back up to them.
Then again, there is a slight chance that my cynicism doesn't align with reality... fingers crossed.