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Kate Ferris
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They aren't really used at all outside the US - I got a check refund from an American and I literally *could not* cash it because Australian banks won't take international ones anymore. It's strange for such a wealthy country to be 20yrs behind in finance.
See also: signing for card payments, hardly any contactless even in SF, weird payment processor intermediaries because interbank transfers are harder than they should be...
KF
Kate Ferris
@kferris.bsky.social
computer pixels & perf
art, books & writing, clothes...
wip person
86 followers22 following497 posts