I don't think they're ready to pull the trigger yet, but when they do using the internet to transact with crypto is kill. I also think crypto can remain very useful - and valuable - if we can create independent comms. I have looked into mesh networks using the LoRa spectrum that is used for IoT, and therefore has innumerable sources already and is pretty easy to bury signals in all the toasters, microwaves, refrigerators, and lightbulbs sending surveillance data back to corporate from every home with smart appliances in them. That helps to prevent triangulation which can locate radio sources, if there's ever a problem using that spectrum. Meshtastic and Meshcore are both exploding in popularity RN, with my sources claiming that meshcore is the better protocol.

For folks that can solder and flash esp32 firmware, devices can be had for as little as ~$20 per unit, but turnkey units run from $50 - $80 or so that I've seen. These tools are line of sight, but in populated areas like the E. coast and W. coast of the USA, rapidly growing mesh networks are up and running. I think these are a viable mechanism to keep crypto valuable and useful, because there's no owner of that spectrum, and no one can censor comms using it. I also think that if the internet becomes unusable to transact with crypto, these networks will virtually explode as folks adopt them so they can continue to transact with crypto. Particularly privacy coins will become useful again in that scenario, at least for a while. Because the problem isn't the crypto but the network, and folks are establishing free open networks on inexpensive hardware, the problem is halfway solved already.

These networks aren't presently high enough bandwidth to stream video, but they're fine for texting, which is all that is necessary to transact. They may be able to upscale considerably as well, since all that is necessary is higher end devices. A hurdle is backbone and long distance comms, such as across oceans, or vast deserts where few people live. The nearest meshtastic node to me in the very popular PNW network is ~30 miles away, which wouldn't be a problem except the Coast Range of mountains separates us. Lashing some solar powered nodes to some tall trees could solve that problem, if someone had a few hundred bucks and an open weekend.

Presently there's still time to prepare for the internet to become KYC and our use of it to transact outside the legacy financial system hasn't yet been terminated. I think the imposition of complete control over our use of the internet to communicate and transact is inevitable, and is happening incrementally by the day. I am unaware that anyone is using mesh networks to transact - but I think it's time to start spinning up that capability.

Edit: God, I hope Epstein isn't Satoshi Nakamoto. I've already been convinced he isn't dead, if he's a googolillionaire that's just a terrible outcome. So far no one's touched the SN accounts to my knowledge, so it seems not to be the case, at least at present.