You have a good point, but if civilization goes down so far that there is no Internet, we're fucked anyway. And back to goods barter stage.
It will be like the old west, and little news availability and probably no phones (even landline anymore). However, we WILL still have radio, and Internet by packet radio which will be overloaded.
If we are lucky enough to still have satellite we may still get some Internet.
I was pondering how to send crypto by Indian smoke signal but then I woke up in a pool of piss and vowed to avoid that brand of tequila forever.
You have a good point, but if civilization goes down so far that there is no Internet, we're fucked anyway. And back to goods barter stage.