zhashtoshi_ on Nostr: This morning several UK banks (Revolut, Lloyds, HSBC, Bank of Scotland) are partly ...
This morning several UK banks (Revolut, Lloyds, HSBC, Bank of Scotland) are partly down. The likely cause: Google Cloud's London region having problems since around 06:00 GMT.
Nobody got hacked and the money is safe. But for a few hours people couldn't pay or log in, because one zone of one provider failed. Revolut's status page kept saying "all systems operational" while it happened.
That's the hidden cost of everything running on the same three clouds: one bad morning in one data centre and half a country's payments stall.
It's also why I like Nostr's design. If one relay goes down, your notes are on others, and your identity is a key, not an account on someone's server. Bitcoin works the same way: no single data centre to fail.
Published at
2026-10-20 10:56:51 UTCEvent JSON
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