Everything runs somewhere. Find Bitcoin's server and pull the plug.
NETWORK: OPERATIONAL
Nodes you've killed: 0 Still running: —
last block …
Pick a weapon, then tap the globe to aim.
No actual nodes were harmed. All destruction is simulated in your browser.
One copy rebuilt everything. A node costs less than a games console — you could be one of these lights.
Can't kill it? Buy it. →What can be shut down?
Exchanges can be seized — they're companies with offices. A local internet blackout hurts users in that country until they route around it (satellite, mesh, phone data). But the network itself — the shared ledger every node holds a full copy of — has never gone down since January 2009.