The central bank of Denmark, Nationalbanken, today announced its new offline payment system which means Danes will be able to pay digitally at the store — even when the internet is down.

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michael@westergaard.social — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 11:15:54 GMT

Credit card payments are not (newly) able to do this. Debit cards are now newly able to do this ("betalingskort" = "debit card"). Credit cards could (in most cases) already do this as you buy on credit. Debit cards always check the bank balance and therefore needed an internet connection.

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jurkis@mastodon.social — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 11:14:34 GMT

@harrysintonen @randahl We had such type of bank cards (issued by bank Snoras) in Lithuania at about 1993-2010. Then Snoras bankrupted.

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derekheld@infosec.exchange — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 10:59:11 GMT

@randahl Are they running the infrastructure independent of the US? Or is it like the EU creating a payment system that still runs on AWS?

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manul70@mastodon.social — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 10:55:55 GMT

@randahl That's just a parallel network that can save 7 days of activity, after seventh day if you make a transaction you'll get an error message. Pretty sure say used already made infrastructure.

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oliver@metalized.net — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 10:24:49 GMT

@randahl This must be the proper digitalization they're talking about all the time here in Germany... Well done, my favorite emigration countrx, #Denmark! ️

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randahl@mastodon.social — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 10:17:40 GMT

@harrysintonen in a world where Russian hackers are constantly trying to shut down essential digital infrastructure in Europe, I this is indeed both new at our stores and very, very important.

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petpet@social.tchncs.de — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 10:16:06 GMT

@randahl
Fine. One question though: still Mastercard or Visa or Danish banking system?

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harrysintonen@infosec.exchange — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 09:35:59 GMT

@randahl Airplane inflight card payments have been doing this for ages. So nothing new technically as far as I can tell.

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janantos@f.cz — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 09:01:39 GMT

@randahl this needs to spread cross whole EU, we will be waiting for digital Euro forever

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fransveldman@fediverse.thefloatinglab.world — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 08:55:20 GMT

Next step, cash money is no longer accepted, because the new system has so many "advantages".
Which means that banks and government gain total insight and control of everyone's expenditures.

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schmic@hessen.social — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 08:52:57 GMT

@randahl Amazing what's possible if people want to make something happen, well done.

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txtx@mastodon.social — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 08:35:16 GMT

@randahl This is good news. A hotel employee in Denmark was a little bit concerned when my card didn't work there; he said Denmark had just suffered a nationwide payment outage. Quite a problem as we transition more and more towards digital payments...

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raisondetredev@mastodon.de — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 08:29:57 GMT

@randahl Nice, well done Denmark!