In the decade before covid-19 the wealthiest 1% of Americans had, in aggregate, about twice as much in cash and chequable bank deposits as the bottom 50%.
I'm just going to create an IOU to A for 50, and the whole reason why this works is because people use these checking account deposits as a form of money.
Both companies made their fortunes building and selling ATMs to banks, but there's only so many banks in the world who need ATMs and so much innovation to be had with cash withdrawals and check deposits.
That man also revealed that FTX let thousands of uncashed deposit checks sit around like junk mail and approved millions of dollars of expense reports via emoji on Slack.