[bcrosby95]

Based upon this series of postings, it sounds like the problems in the original tweet are the result of decoupled enterprise payment systems, rather than the opposite. As if someone somewhere forgot to manually flip some flag or that they paid wasn't properly distributed throughout the byzantine distributed system.

[marcosdumay]

The GGP used the wrong term. What he describes is a system that is overridable, not decoupled.

You are right in that decoupled systems aren't good.