Mastercard goes TITSUP in US, UK: There are some things money can't buy – like uptime
Found on The Register on Thursday, 12 July 2018
"Couldn’t pay for petrol. It’s a disgrace you can’t trust cards to pay when you need them to work. Doesn’t say much for the resilience of digital payments."
Mastercard customers have been protesting loudly on Twitter that their pieces of plastic are certainly not fantastic.
Last month, Visa suffered a major outage in Europe at a particularly unfortunate time. Millions of Friday night payments were unable to be completed, and settling the bar tab after the traditional Friday night booze up proved problematic.
Now if someone would only invent an alternative that's resistant against downtimes and outages. Maybe, just maybe, it would be possible to use paper and metal to create different units representing a monetary value which can be exchanged between people.