No, they took down an internet service provider like the article says. Not the whole internet. Maybe since there is probably 1 internet service provider there it seems like the whole internet was shut down. But if anyone there was using the internet on their cell phones or satellite internet they wouldn't have had that problem... Next time try to at least educate yourself before arguing with someone like me over a topic that you don't belong in. It's very odvious that you don't have a clue about hacking, and most of what you told me came straight out of the news article as if you were reading me a book....
So, what you meant to say was that if everyone in Liberia, a desperately poor African country with a GDP per capita of $456 a year had a satellite internet connection (if you'd actually read the article you'd have realized that the target was a cell phone company!) then Well yeah, it does turn out you can't do cryptocurrency transactions if you don't have internet service and yeah, it does turn out that this specific incident we're all here talking about did actually cut off internet access for most everyone in the country...but, but let's argue about if it was technically an internet server and throw out some "odvious[sic]" childish name calling and conspiracy theories while we're at it. The bottom line is that most people in Liberia effectively had no fucking internet during this attack, that's the entire point of the article. And with no-one there having internet service, regardless of how or why or if it was a provider or there was 1 provider or if monkeys broke into the backbone and ate the fiber optic cable or any other irrelevant shit you want to bring up, crypto currency would have been utterly and completely worthless. In the specific situation that is the topic of this thread, not some other situation you seem to want to talk about, the same ill effects would have happened had they been using cryptocurrency or not. In fact, it would have been worse because ALL transactions would have stopped, at least with this they could still conduct cash transactions. So your statement is simply incorrect in THIS situation. And since THIS situation is the one we're talking about in this thread, it's baffling why you're so hell bent on doing the crypto fanboy thing here. Go blather somewhere else where you have at least a small chance of saying something relevant.
What does a phone company have to do with anything? I was talking about wifi signal from satelite. way off... If you read back up then you can clearly see I have not called you a name, in fact I have been very respectful when dealing with you. What conspiracy have I said? You are taking what I said and blowing it way out of proportion There was internet. See if you read the article it says there was internet in certain parts of the country. Do I really need to tell you this? It's written in the article... What I said was relevent. If it were crypto the hacking wouldn't have happened, but since it did the banks couldn't transfer money, as written in the article. But I guess some of us in here are too good to read the article before picking a fight over what the article is about... Anyways this conversation is done. And it was a horrible one. I hope you think about your actions in the future because you'll never get anywhere with that horrible attitude. Have a good day
While the transactions could be validated by decentralized miners outside the country, said transactions still need to be initiated over the internet inside that country.
He's a special combination of a net native who has never known a time without an internet and someone who has never traveled to even a place where the internet wasn't temporarily available let alone a desperately poor third world country. Ah, the absolute certainty of being a smart but sheltered 16 year old. He'll eventually figure out that the rest of the world isn't like his town.... hopefully.
In a dark parking garage just outside of Detroit they could have exchanged private keys of a wallet...
Yes and there was still internet if you weren't using the service provider who was hacked. Africans are not stupid. And I'm not going to repeat myself again. It's not my fault you can't read an article!