No, this would be better if the headline where IT outage shows the dangers of centralized systems because that would be more accurate. The monero network kept chugging along all day with no problems.

It took me about a month to get over the lack of “convience” of no cards & needing to carry cash in my country, but now I absolutely prefer it—as do small vendors. Card usage is very low & if you use one, minimums are high & you are on the hook for the network fee. Where I was born, folks bake the cost of the fee into the price which means using cash, you are subsidizing everyone using cards/apps which is pretty insane—it’s money for the giant payment providers that vacuum up all of our personal data. Cash is resilient, but way more private.