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Topic: Visa's network just went down in Europe (Read 143 times)

legendary
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June 01, 2018, 11:23:49 AM
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Seeing reports that millions of people currently aren't able to use theirs cards for purchases all over Europe.  Maybe people will finally start to understand why centralised systems are vulnerable to failure.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-44335804
https://news.sky.com/story/visa-card-problems-hit-uk-customers-and-businesses-11392087
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/visa-card-payment-down-mastercard-not-working-broken-payment-shop-a8379381.html




//EDIT:  Even though I posted this first, one of the forum mods has started a thread for this, so I'll redirect everyone there:

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/discussion-visa-outage-payment-chaos-after-card-network-crashes-4398048
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