Mwalimu@baraza.africa to Privacy@lemmy.ml · 4 months agoGlobal IT outage shows dangers of cashless society, campaigners saywww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square27fedilinkarrow-up16arrow-down10
arrow-up16arrow-down1external-linkGlobal IT outage shows dangers of cashless society, campaigners saywww.theguardian.comMwalimu@baraza.africa to Privacy@lemmy.ml · 4 months agomessage-square27fedilink
minus-squarehelenslunch@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down1·4 months ago Define “worked” in this context. You can still exchange funds as normal because no necessary components or intermediaries were affected by the outage. Only conventional banking systems.
minus-squarejust_another_person@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 months agoMy point was more that using Monero as an example is probably not the best way to cryptobrah an illustrative point.
minus-squarehelenslunch@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down1·4 months agoI don’t see how you were making that point.
minus-squarejust_another_person@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 months agoBecause 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.
minus-squarehelenslunch@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down1·edit-24 months agoYou can use it for all the same things you can at any other time, as I said. Still not sure what your point is.
minus-squarejust_another_person@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 months agoLol. How is your crypto gonna work without global peers and internet, friend?
minus-squarehelenslunch@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down1·4 months agoNothing happened to the internet
You can still exchange funds as normal because no necessary components or intermediaries were affected by the outage. Only conventional banking systems.
My point was more that using Monero as an example is probably not the best way to cryptobrah an illustrative point.
I don’t see how you were making that point.
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.
You can use it for all the same things you can at any other time, as I said. Still not sure what your point is.
Lol. How is your crypto gonna work without global peers and internet, friend?
Nothing happened to the internet