• quediuspayu@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Not only that, electronic money is dependent of internet connection. If right now an internet outage of a few minutes is pure chaos in most retail, imagine not having something to fallback on a longer outage.

    • otp@sh.itjust.works
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      5 days ago

      I could fathom a digital wallet that stores money locally.

      Of course, any counterfeiting would only be verifiable with an internet connection.