Cash provides essential fallback when digital payments break down, Payment Choice Alliance points out
  • AggressivelyPassive@feddit.de
    4·
    5 months ago

    … And if the systems you actually interact with go down, you can get fucked as well.

    If you want to buy food with Monero and the payment processor for the local shop doesn’t work, even if it’s a local machine sitting in the back office, you still can’t buy anything.

    • shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip
      23·
      5 months ago

      A local machine sitting in the back office, acting as a payment processor, is much easier to access and fix than the Visa Network.

      • AggressivelyPassive@feddit.de
        42·
        5 months ago

        Not for you. And certainly not for the staff working in the shop.

        Currently, you’re bartering with copious amounts of copium.