I have made networks before, and set up my first network in 1987. These networks are not global, but Local Area Networks (LANs). There is only one global network we have access to: the internet. That is why the link to Bastyon you provide above is an internet address.

I have a school friend who was installing Local Area Networks before you, @valued-customer, and he would be much harsher in reaction to your deep ignorance. I can tell you about it in my way:

• DECENTRALIZED networks are NOT the same as LAN.
• Bastyon has a connection to Internet, but you can install the application and turn off all your browsers – it will still work. It DOES NOT DEPEND on the TCP/IP Internet protocol.
• TCP/IP is not the only protocol in Universe.
• TCP/IP is not the best protocol in the Universe. It is a patchwork that had global reach because it was first. There are much improved protocols in existence.
• There is NO SINGLE INFRASTRUCTURE that everybody use. Russia and China already have their own sovereign Internets, and they are expanding infrastructure through all BRICS countries. Any refusal of service now has easy alternative.
• Bitcoin already has its own infrastructure. Yes, it uses Internet as well, but DOES NOT DEPEND on it. So when you state “When you lose internet access, you lose access to Bastyon, BTC, and IRC because they are not on separate, parallel network infrastructure from the internet, but are only on the internet” you are actually showing all your ignorance.