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El Guiri | 29 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Yes, same. It's interesting signal though. Pretty bad downtime. One has to wonder with banks if it truly is technical
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S!ayer | 29 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Fuck them
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El Guiri | 29 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Shared sentiment. Hope many have been oranfe pilled though
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S!ayer | 29 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I think it's a case of "I know about it but actually can't afford it" because also, what do you really use it for? Most here are struggling to make ends meet, let alone stacking sats
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El Guiri | 29 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Yeah that's certainly a big issue. Been 6 years now so out of touch big time really
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El Guiri | 29 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Besides, might be a good signal for you
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S!ayer | 29 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 what do you mean?
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El Guiri | 29 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 I mean if you want a barometer of potential liquidity crunch in SA banks, just check web services uptime charts
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El Guiri | 29 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Question obviously is if it’s internet connectivity on their side but it’s atrocious uptime for a bank of that size! https://image.nostr.build/1bba34965e6ffcfbcb0647b49f61fae791167a259c35250d195f8fd31ab667e2.jpg
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S!ayer | 29 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 honestly wouldn't know - never banked with the big four/five. I assume no issues though - but it could be hackers too because it's a global outage in many places around the world.
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El Guiri | 29 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Hard to say. Potential signal. It was south afrucan friend that pointed it out and said compared to other banks in other countries and stood out. Who knows. Maybe something to keep an eye on here and there