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Originally Posted by Bill Douglas View Post
that's what the banks do too. When you make a credit card deposit/pay off credit card, and it doesn't show up for 24 or 48 hours, that's the bank getting free use of money. Every day free use of hundreds and hundreds of millions.
Simply, ahh, no.

Sounds nice and plausible but there are millions of transactions flowing in both directions and some systems are set to batch once a day because it’s more efficient to process so all you need is two batched systems in a chain to get a 48 hour window.
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