As cyberwarfare threat looms, cashless Nordic nations go back to banknotes | Miranda Bryant
www.theguardian.com
Nordic countries were early adopters of digital payments. Now, electronic banking is seen as a potential threat to national security
  • lime!@feddit.nuEnglish
    13·
    8 hours ago

    what a weird headline.

    as a rule, we never use cash. i’ve been carrying around 500 kronor in notes for years, and i can’t get any use for them because people would rather take swish than deal with the hassle of cash. even in a blackout or network failure at the supermarket cash would be no use because they all use digital cash registers than ingest the bills and spit out change automatically.

    the thing we are being told by our government is “don’t put all your eggs in one basket”. we are being recommended to keep two payment cards from different issuers, as well as cash. this is all for redundancy, not because something has broken.

    • Bumblefumble@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      7 hours ago

      500 kr is the exact amount of cash you need at very specific vendors, the only place where they don’t do swish at all 🍃

  • axh@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    10 hours ago

    Clickbait. TLDR: it’s safe to have cash, because times are weird.

  • Carlo_io@feddit.itEnglish
    14·
    10 hours ago

    A clickbite title for an interesting article. That is so so sad! The problem with the cashless “utopia” is not in the system, that worked for years, but “in the context of today, with war in Europe, unpredictability in the US and the fear of Russian hybrid attacks almost a part of daily life in Sweden” So, like always, when a society with high level of democracy, science, philosophy ecc. faces the barbarians. The barbarian win.