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having a pos in places without a reliable internet connection is enough of a reason for stored value cards to be a thing. Some things shouldn't require the moth
by yuliyp 2y ago
having a pos in places without a reliable internet connection is enough of a reason for stored value cards to be a thing. Some things shouldn't require the mothership to be alive and reachable to work.
- ThePowerOfFuet 2y agoYou're not wrong, but that is precisely the tradeoff: stored-value is more reliable but also more vulnerable. It's reminiscent of the old NASA saying: "faster, better, cheaper: pick any two".
- account42 2y agoYou don't need the system to be invulnerable to fraud, you just need to be able to detect it. Offline stored value cards plus separately shipping transactions to a central system with eventual consistency can give you that. The vending machine in question probably isn't invulnerable to physical break in either.