True, but I didn’t mean permanently down. Yesterday at a restaurant their internet was down and I was lucky I had cash otherwise I wouldn’t have been able to eat there. Cash is still very useful in this scenario.
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There are some ways to use Lightning that convert to Fiat at the time of purchase, and it’s possible to have a card for that. However, the better and more efficient adoption of Bitcoin is just a matter of time
cashu ecash would be usable in a temporary outage, can make offline payments.