Revolut down as users report app not working

BoumTAC

Can we still pay ? I have some shooping to do during my lunch break and I don't want to feel stupid without a way to pay at the checkout.

rvz

Once again, blockchains that use USDC continue to run without any serious outages for years. I just paid for an item with USDC (using Phantom Wallet) right now and there are many other examples of this. No need to wait for a bank and it doesn't matter the blockchain, as long as it supports USDC and you have a crypto wallet, the payment goes through. Stripe knows this already and crypto payments will be here for a very very long time as they already are today.

robtaylor

Its a bigger thing https://status.cloud.google.com

monneyboi

I just learned the embarassing way that my ability to pay for groceries depends on the livelyness of europe-west2.

afhammad

Good opportunity to share some competitive resilience: https://monzo.com/blog/tolerating-full-cloud-outages-with-mo...

pllbnk

Not saying it's a vibe-coding issue. But I just imagine a scenario where a global service experiences significant disruption due to a vibe-coded release. No person understands how it works or is able to figure out in less than a week because no human has ever glanced at the code for a couple years, so the decision is taken to unleash LLM agents directly on production to fix the issue. Of course, one of these agents has to do some database migration but there is a breaking change, so they launch a sub-agent to deal with that; the sub-agent doesn't have a full context, so it decides that the easiest way would be to drop the database and so it does. The latest _successful_ backup took place a month ago. $100B value down the drain.

Ecstatify

Revolut needs a way to proactively notify users when their cards aren’t working. It’s so frustrating having to go to Reddit just to find out that Revolut is down.

GettingOld

Google cloud is having issues in London impacting HSBC, Lloyds & Bank Of Scotland in UK - May impact your ability to pay with a card https://www.theregister.com/paas-and-iaas/2026/10/20/google-... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c58jd2kjp93xt

mrkeen

Interviewed for them this year. Got into a heated argument where the interviewer insisted it was perfectly acceptable to store money as a mutable row in a database. I pushed back with the standard "You append transactions (including corrections) to a ledger" but he wasn't convinced. I whipped out the standard two-ATMs -separated-by-a-distance overdraft example, and how you can create or destroy money that way. He said it made no sense as an example because it was buggy and you would never release buggy code. I asked if he'd done bug fixes before (yes) but obviously he was going to keep digging in further. The irony of it was that he was part of the blockchain team.

ChrisArchitect

Related: Google cloud outage takes down HSBC, Revolut, Bank of Scotland, Lloyds, Equifax, more https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50163961