Achieving a moneyless society after one big overlong network outage.
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Regarding homeless people I'd say just carry a bunch of 2 euro coins. You can get them in a roll against a small payment at exchanges and it'll last you a long time. That way you can also budget your donations.
Can't remember which one but credit cards were offline for a time with something and places that still had the carbon paper roller things stashed away took them out and used them. They should keep those things around.
Do people still have embossed credit cards? All mine are flat now.
good point. I think embossing went away about when wireless became ubiquitous with it. So they would need to be doing that again.
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That's against the rules for PCI compliance
Under no circumstances should you copy a card
are they not allowed now. The thing im thinking about was definately post 2000 but maybe not 20teens
Shop I worked for in 2005… I think … ran cards when the connection was down and took card impressions, and I think the transactions were all auto submitted when the connection came back up.
did they do something special. most places I have been to when the network is down it just does not work.
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Not sure how much good that'll be... A lot of banks are giving out cards where the numbers are only printed, I haven't had one with raised numbers in years.
You could just write down the numbers.
You could, but then we wouldn't be talking about a carbon paper roller thingy...
No, that is not correct. Global outage shows the dangers of centralized systems would be a better headline. Monero Worked all day throughout the entire outage with no problems.
Monero isn't bad but I don't think it is great for easily buying things. At the end of the day trying to use two different currencies is hard. Also Monero gets a bad name because it is used primarily for illegal transactions. It is simply two complex and has no accountability
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What good is cash gonna do if the networked cash register doesn't open anymore?
They have paper and pens that they can track their transactions until the system is fixed.
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Would Taler be more resilient than a typical EMV/AmEx card? It's designed as an online payment system but it's less centralised, so that could help.
It's already an attractive project due to its privacy feature, and due to it being more regulation-friendly that cryptocurrencies. If it's resilient enough it could act as a digital cash.
Cash alternative
I don't think replacing cash is a good idea
To me Taler is not a cash alternative, but a card alternative, besides cash. It's better then cards, probably for everyone involved, but it isn't better than cash.