[krisoft]

> I'd be interested in why you had to go through alot of effort to cash your check.

I’m not the commenter you are asking from I also used to live in central europe. There as far as I can tell the concept of a “check” simply doesn’t exist. So much so that I don’t even know what is the equivalent word in the local language. If I would get one I would need to go to my bank in person and ask them if they can do anything with. I would already count that as a hassle, but I just looked it up online and it seems my bank doesn’t handle checks. There are rummours online that some other banks do cash checks, but it seems some of those have changed their policy since and they are no longer accepting checks either.

All in all it works as well as being paid with a rai stone or a cowry sea shell, while lacking the aesthetic benefits of those.