alt Hacker NewsIt's the ability to take a picture of a check and deposit it into your account that way, vs having to take the check to an actual branch of a bank.
Here in the US, I still get checks frequently enough that it's nice to have.
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themafia • yesterday at 12:53 AM
What's hilarious is that at the end of the day your transaction is added to a text file and sent along with the image to the Federal Reserve Bank Clearinghouse via SFTP. It's then communicated back to the other bank in the exact same way.
ErroneousBosh • yesterday at 12:10 PM
Oh, cheques.
I don't think I've seen one of those since the early 90s. Do people still use them?
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I'll bet the confusion stems from the rest of the world having essentially forgotten what is a check/cheque almost a generation ago.
I only used them twice in my life, last one was in 2012 and I had to get a supervisor at the bank to find the procedure to get a checkbook at the time.