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kgraves on July 8, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Rogers network outage across Canada hits banks, bu...

> It's hard to understate the impact of this across all of Canada. As someone who uses Apple Pay for almost every transaction, this underlines the fragility of a "cashless society."

It seems like Bitcoin and crypto fared well during this outage.

jeromegv on July 8, 2022 [–]

If you could get on the internet to transact your crypto, that is.

kgraves on July 8, 2022 | [–]

You can if you use cellular data to transact with Bitcoin, not everyone is using the Rogers network, but the banks in Canada were.

So no online banking, withdrawals, payments in affected parts Canada.

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