Re:Tell HN: Chase shadow banned and closed my bank accounts
by wiredfool on Thursday March 16, 2023 @07:57AM
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It's not broken, _tons_ of money goes over it every day.
It just has basically no internal security once you get past the gatekeeper (your bank), and optimistic concurrency, and it's reversible.
This is possible with some bill payment systems with some banks. You can send anyone money and it is either transferred via ACH or they send a physical check. The big banks generally don't support this.
I agree that ACH is broken because you can't use it to transfer money to anyone.