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Don't forget that cryptcurrencies are valuable only because people think they are valuable. People might reconsider whats valuable during a war. Like food or something.

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So is "normal" money

They are also unusable if your country's power grid/Internet access gets taken out by the enemy.

In theory a smaller economy might be able to run this sort of scheme by hand. Just depends on the crypto scheme used.

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