Thermodynamic and Telecommunication Non-Survivability of Bitcoin in Total Kinetic Warfare: The Collapse of the "Digital Gold" Paradigm Under EMP Strikes, Undersea Cable Severance, and Rationing Economies

【Description / Abstract】 A foundational tenet of the cryptocurrency paradigm asserts that Bitcoin functions as sovereign-independent "digital gold"—an immutable, non-state reserve asset and unassailable hedge against systemic collapse, geopolitical conflict, and currency debasement. This paper disproves this premise through an exhaustive physical-layer and thermodynamic failure-mode analysis under the conditions of total kinetic conflict (World War III). We demonstrate that Bitcoin is fundamentally parasitic upon an ultra-fragile, highly centralized peacetime civil infrastructure: uninterrupted terawatt-scale electrical grids, global synchronization clocks, and intercontinental submarine fiber-optic telecommunication backbones. Under total wartime conditions—characterized by high-altitude electromagnetic pulse (HEMP) detonations, kinetic strikes on critical power generation/substations, and targeted severance of undersea cables—the physical prerequisites of Nakamoto consensus instantly disintegrate. We mathematically formulate the dynamics of "splinternet" hash-rate partitioning, proving that regional network fragmentation precipitates catastrophic Byzantine reorganizations, irreversible chain bifurcations, and the total destruction of transactional finality. Furthermore, from the perspective of biological survival and wartime rationing economics, we analyze the microeconomic failure of non-tangible cryptographic tokens: in an environment stripped of electrical power and telecommunications, digital private keys exhibit zero purchasing power against critical survival commodities (caloric food supplies, potable water, medical countermeasures, and hydrocarbons). Unlike elemental gold, which retains unassisted atomic scarcity across millennia with zero energy expenditure, Bitcoin represents the most entropy-intensive, energetically demanding asset class in human history. We conclude that relying on distributed cryptographic ledgers for wartime survival is an existential delusion and formulate physical-layer frameworks for resilient, tangible asset security.