Submarine fiber optic cable on ocean floor, illustrating Bitcoin network infrastructure resilience.
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Bitcoin Resilient to 72% Subsea Cable Failure

March 16, 2026 — The Bitcoin network demonstrates significant resilience to random undersea internet cable cuts, requiring nearly three-quarters of all intercontinental subsea cables to fail before experiencing major disruption, according to new research from the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance. The study, however, identifies targeted attacks on cable chokepoints as a far more effective […]