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Mwalimu@baraza.africa to Privacy@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago

Global IT outage shows dangers of cashless society, campaigners say

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Global IT outage shows dangers of cashless society, campaigners say

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Mwalimu@baraza.africa to Privacy@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago
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Cash provides essential fallback when digital payments break down, Payment Choice Alliance points out
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    Define “worked” in this context. You mean their own infrastructure didn’t crash? You certainly didn’t pop down to the store and buying anything useful with Monero 😂

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        My point was more that using Monero as an example is probably not the best way to cryptobrah an illustrative point.

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            Because you can’t just go and buy real world goods at will as with cash. If there’s ever a Carrington Event, your Monero is worthless in an emergency.

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                Lol. How is your crypto gonna work without global peers and internet, friend?

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