"...blockchain is one of these opportunities and it has found a loophole that is unclosable."
No. Blockchains are all easily closable via nothing more difficult than censorship. This fact makes crypto an impossible store of value, unlike PMs or any other physical mechanism. BTW it wasn't just Google+ that went down, but all Goolag, including Pokemon Go, for example. If Goolag can go down, you can be confident that any given blockchain can too.
I'm not saying they will be, or that the problem can't be rectified, but unless the internet becomes decentralized it will always be a problem. I can't access the Steem blockchain without internet access to it. It's just a censor away from being obsolete. Mesh networks or something like it is necessary, and not just to secure our cryptoassets, but our communications. Runet is undertaking measures to maintain communications in the event of censorship or other catastrophic disconnection from the wider internet, and this is just the beginning of the evolution of the internet to something that can't be censored, and is secure for individual use. Centralization ensures that this will begin with institutions, like Russia, but it is a beginning of decentralization, and physics indicates that decentralization is the future of society, and not merely given communication protocols.
Decentralization is freedom. Physics is the law. Code will follow.
Thanks!
Google shut down the consumer side of google+
And as said, the only way to shut it down is to shut down the internet, including email. Whatever causes that would be a problem that is likely larger than the shutdown of crypto to deal with.
Ah, I was confusing the death of Google+ with the global crash of Goolag that occurred yesterday.
Shutting down the internet is not necessary to censor particular sites or protocols. New Zealand has directed all ISPs serving the nation to censor free speech sites like the chans. That did not shutdown the wider internet, but the same mechanism could shut down BTC, or any crypto, while leaving other protocols and sites intact. It's possible that some users could adapt, in fact it's certain they would, via using email or other cryptic means, just as some Kiwis have found ways around the censorship to reach the chans.
The vast majority would not, and posts from New Zealand are almost nonexistent today on the chans.