PTCL Service Breakdown Leaves Millions Offline – Is It Time for Crypto Investors to Rethink?
A nationwide service disruption hit PTCL today, disconnecting users from the internet and landlines across Pakistan. The outage, caused by a fault in the company’s fiber network, affected major cities including Karachi, Lahore, and Islamabad.
While businesses, traders, and students struggled with connectivity, many in the crypto community highlighted how such outages expose the risks of relying solely on centralized infrastructure.
💡 Crypto Takeaway:
Investors should always keep hardware wallets or offline wallets ready in case of sudden internet breakdowns.
Explore projects working on decentralized internet (Web3, DePIN, and blockchain-based communication) — these could gain huge value in the future as reliance on traditional ISPs shows its limits.
Short-term traders should set automated stop-loss orders beforehand to avoid losses when unexpected outages cut off access to exchanges.
This PTCL incident is a reminder: just as finance is going decentralized, the internet of the future may need to follow the same path.
