In the grownup world between the Atlantic and the Pacific. Everybody in the very Near East (read: Europe) uses SWIFT. That you have to haul around a scrap of paper with a sum written on it, only to sit on pins and needles nervous as to when they'll finally withsraw the money is, frankly, so Victorian. Grow up, North American banking system!

There's a lot more than code on Github. Wikis and the documentation implicit in issues are all of great value and stored in a proprietary format.