Paypal status: access issues and outage reports

Problems in the last 24 hours

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Most Reported Problems

The following are the most recent problems reported by Paypal users through our website.

• Sign in (42%)
• Errors (36%)
• Website Down (22%)

Live Outage Map

The most recent Paypal outage reports came from the following cities:

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Thurins	Sign in	4 hours ago
Roubaix	Errors	1 day ago
Lisbon	Errors	1 day ago
Boulogne-Billancourt	Errors	1 day ago
Boulogne-Billancourt	Errors	2 days ago
Cublize	Website Down	2 days ago

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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  daveisyourhero (@Daveisyourhero) reported 13 seconds ago

  @RepJayapal You lose on this issue eyerytime, Rep PayPal 😕

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  RESCUE HOME ANIMAL SANCTUARY (@rescuehomea) reported 3 minutes ago

  These two sick kittens are really sick and they have terrible eye injuries It's going to be a hard recovery journey for both of them but we do everything we can to save their lives We are in desperate need of your support to pay their treatment PayPal Donate Link in bio 🐈

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  Kay {COMMS CLOSED} (@_UnknownArt5) reported 6 minutes ago

  Hey guys! Just had my paypal account get permanently disabled. I have no idea on why or how but they’re keeping all the money i’ve earned from my keychains for up to 180 days. Don’t worry keychains will still be sent out. And any payment problems are now fixed.

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  ☆nermiko☆ (@tamargirl25) reported 10 minutes ago

  I really want to start taking commissions, but there's one problem... I don't have PayPal yet. 💔 I'm saving up for my dream iPad and Procreate, so hopefully I'll be able to open commissions in the future. For now, I'm just going to keep practicing and improving my art. 💪✨

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  ann smith (@annsmit23978141) reported 11 minutes ago

  @mtngirl143 @GOP And they said the doge “kids” (all adults) and Elon musk were not to be trusted with all that sensitive information. Who’s the problem? MUSK who owned PayPal & had millions of SS#s or the crooked government

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  Femi Alla (@femialla) reported 11 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal The issue never gets resolved. I've already uploaded all of the documents PayPal requested for both myself and my business. One thing I noticed is that my business name appears in the top-left corner of the dashboard, while my personal name appears in the top-right.

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  Slick 斯利克 (@PupperSlick) reported 11 minutes ago

  @pokemondealsuk Got it. PayPal said it went through, then app said payment failed. Now shows in my orders. Argos app is so broken, but a slightly better broken than before lol

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  kevinliu (@KevinLiuPutra) reported 12 minutes ago

  @valquxxn @PayPal Call customer support from ur region , ive called US hq and they will redicret you to your paypal region office anyway so its pointless and a waste of phone bill, ive had this issue in the early days , just talk to them about it , mine was because it went over 1k and they want to know what i do so i just called them tell them what i do and provide them with my id and bank statement, + documents of work , screenshots of requests and results, they have the best customer service hands down cause they fix every documents for me that was messed up and you can send them an email here executiveoffice@paypal . com too to get extra help, its insane but i love their cs i thanked them after the agent fixed it for me, it doesnt take that long too

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  Squeaky 🩷🎀Magical Girl🩷🎀 (@Squeakychiona) reported 13 minutes ago

  @ParadoxVirtual I guess we want to be pedantic & split hairs. Sure I'll bite. Yes there are cases of scammers & people that ghost in the art field. It's sadly a problem in several creative & non-creative fields, even outside the internet. As long as there has been a service business, there has been the possibility of being scammed. From ordering a bouquet of flowers, getting your car oil changed, to ordering a burger. The main difference between those & art is that when you order a burger & it sucks, you don't damn every burger place. You leave a bad review, tells your friends it sucked & just don't go to that one ****** restaurant anymore. Y'all act like a couple bad instances of art scam means every single artist is out to scam you. That's why sites like Vgen have counter measures to ensure clients get their product, that's why PayPal has chargeback options, that's why you ask the restaurant manager for a refund. You know there are also a TON of AI scammers too right? Scammers that have only boomed in size as the technology grows. Just the other day a post blew up from a person who was scammed by someone claiming to be an artist who used AI. By your logic, someone scammed by AI means all AI is a scam. Y'all sure don't wanna talk about that though. Once more, Fillian never purchased any of her models. She admitted many times she stole it using an app to rip it from VRChat & didn't pay a cent. At that point the artists saying she can't use it to make anymore merch is valid because Fillian never went through the avenues to do anything legally. It was a consequence of her actions. To call it "revoking" like she paid top dollar for it is once again, disingenuous and twisting the narrative. The artist couldn't even sue due to being overseas. So Fillian could have easily continued. She didn't because that would have made her an awful person & lost her credibility within the Vtuber sphere. Which is also why she's rebranding. So once more, disingenuous. Yes, there is a problem with elitism in the field, Squ herself is ironically one of those same artists that charged premium prices for her art. But to act like the market doesn't have affordable artists who will deliver to their clients is once again disingenuous and inadvertently throwing out the baby with the bathwater. I too have sadly been ghosted by an artist for a work I was hoping for, I didn't blame every other artist for it. I took my loses and sought out another or took that as a lesson to be more vigilant. That's why review systems exist, communities exist. To say AI is a response to art scammers in the market is conflating the intent of the technology with why people want to justify using it. I didn't head your so called "larger" complaints because Squ doesn't bring up scammers at any point. Yes she uses the word "chance" but that could also apply to someone spending an exuberant amount of money for something they could end up dropping because it wasn't for them. Because streaming isn't for anyone and some can feel that they were scammed or wasted money chasing something that didn't make them happy. Also, why do I give a hell about how you used to provide your services? You want a biscuit? A medal for being "one of the good ones"? Here you go 🏅 While on the rarer side, there are artists that offer full commercial just for commissioning them at no extra cost. Some that could give less of a damn what you do with your model after you've paid. I've been lucky to have encountered a few. Yes, some artists abuse things like licensing and commercial rights but again, you're tossing out the baby and the bathwater. Not all artists do that & while you can argue that AI frees you from that worry, if someone steals your IP and runs off with it, you can't claim it as unless I recall, there is no way to legally copyright AI derived works due to how the tech was taught. So it's also not really yours.

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  President jamil (@jamil_fa) reported 15 minutes ago

  @gurgavin How much does PayPal worth guys realize its down market

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  Jack (@jackcoder0) reported 18 minutes ago

  11. Passkeys the password replacement hiding in Safari. When you create an account on a website that supports Passkeys, Safari offers to create a Passkey instead of a password. A Passkey is a cryptographic credential stored in your iCloud Keychain synced across all your Apple devices. You authenticate with Face ID or Touch ID. No password to remember. No password to type. No password to steal. Passkeys can't be phished. There's nothing to enter on a fake website. The authentication is biometric and device-bound. Websites supporting Passkeys include: Google, Microsoft, Amazon, PayPal, eBay, Best Buy, Kayak, and hundreds more with the list growing monthly. Settings → Passwords → check your saved accounts. For any site that supports Passkeys, Safari prompts you to upgrade during your next login. One Face ID scan replaces every password on every supporting site. Safari manages it automatically. No password manager subscription needed.

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  Spewku || COMMS OPEN (@Spewkuu) reported 24 minutes ago

  @gomipomi I use cashapp and PayPal mainly. So far I haven’t had issues with PayPal but you gotta be careful on what they add to the note. I hear Wise is good ngl, and there are no fees to send to your bank (I think)

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  Calamarei 🩸💀 2.0 Coming Soon 2026 (@CalamareiVT) reported 27 minutes ago

  My Twitch account was hacked. I don't know how. I don't know how it is possible payment information was changed after 4-5 years of the same payment information. No confirmation email from Twitch about payout method being changed. For the past 5 years as a creator on Twitch I have always received my payouts early. I recently changed my password on Twitch as well via the correct links sent by Twitch staff themselves (yes I know it was authentic as it was about getting a refund and I did receive the refund). I log in today to make sure there is not some sort of issue with the account, payment information needing to be reverified, a tax form, or something else holding up this months payment. I go to review my payment information, which requires 2 factor authentication btw, and the information looks fine until page 2 out of 3. My payout method had been changed to Paypal and an unknown email (10000% do not know or even heard of this email) for the paypal account. I changed the payout immediately. I reset all my connections with Twitch. I also checked my Twitch email. It was my email. My account email still tied to my account. Yet, no emails confirming payout changes, no alerts, nothing. I do not know how I got hacked. I don't know if it was third party. I have been in the IT field for years and consistently am looking out for phishing and scams. However this did happen and I now have a missing $900 and negative funds in my bank. I already reported this to Twitch and am working on reporting the account to PayPal as I type this. But I really 100% believe there needs to be email notifications sent out for any financial information changed on all platforms. I am still appalled that a system like that is not in place for a website associated with Amazon and functions as an employer to pay so many people on the platform. Where are the security protocols? Or just some IT 101 practices from companies. There is no excuse in 2026 to not have confirmation/authorization/notification emails for payout or financial details being changed. Stay safe.

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  LuckyTheLynx (@LuckyTheLynxAD) reported 27 minutes ago

  @lycan2216 Was taken down due to Paypal threats twords jinxy

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  Memo (@mthblk56) reported 27 minutes ago

  Paid €25 for a German number on and it’s completely useless! 🚫 SMS verification codes arrive 2+ hours late, it doesn't work for WhatsApp or PayPal, and support is ignoring my tickets while my subscription expires in 2 days. Fix this or issue a refund! 💸 #Quackr @quackrio

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  Mr.Presentable (@MrPresentable2) reported 27 minutes ago

  So I fed this to Grok and holy ****… Analysis of the X thread by @whisper_alpha (post ID 2077722854414532656) This is a 14-part investigative thread doing on-chain forensics on the $WALLET token (contract: 0x0339f5459fc690ac85f1782e15782a151b4a9e1b) deployed on Robinhood Chain. The core thesis: This is Robinhood’s biggest unannounced (or stealth) product — a token deeply tied to their team, infrastructure, and new L2 blockchain. Summary of the Thread’s Claims The author traces funding flows across Ethereum and the new Robinhood Chain, connecting the token deployer to: • Vlad Tenev (Robinhood CEO) via a publicly referenced wallet. • Seong Lee (@seongboii) — Head of Crypto Product / Project Manager at Robinhood (Crunchbase + Arkham labels link seonglee.eth). • Richard Reitzfeld (richiereitz.eth) — Senior iOS Engineer at Robinhood (confirmed via LinkedIn; works on mobile/wallet engineering). Key technical findings highlighted: • The same wallet (0xF718d37dBC25799f7cFf04B5AacdA94e87619649) funded: • The Robinhood Chain deployer on Ethereum. • The $WALLET deployer on Robinhood Chain (post-mainnet). • The Paxos hot wallet early on the chain. • Vanity address pair — Two early wallets share a long common substring (dBC25799f7cFf04B5AacdA94e8761), a deliberate pattern often used by teams/institutions. • Extremely early funding (blocks 34 and 41 on Robinhood Chain) — One wallet had ETH with no incoming transactions recorded, consistent with pre-genesis or operator-level initialization funding. • Timeline: Robinhood Chain mainnet launched July 1, 2026. $WALLET deployed July 10, 2026 (9 days later) — deliberate, post-stabilization, after legal review presumably. Speculated use cases (governance token, massive airdrop to Robinhood’s ~23M users, or loyalty/rewards layer replacing or supplementing Robinhood Gold). Verification & Fact-Checking What checks out strongly: • Robinhood Chain timeline: Officially launched public mainnet on July 1, 2026 (confirmed in Robinhood’s own announcements and multiple news outlets). Testnet was earlier in February 2026. Built on Arbitrum tech. • Token existence: The contract 0x0339f5459fc690ac85f1782e15782a151b4a9e1b exists on Robinhood Chain. It is labeled “Robinhood Wallet (WALLET)” on the official Blockscout explorer and OpenSea. Total supply: 1,000,000,000. • Employee connections: • Richard Reitzfeld is a real Senior iOS Engineer at Robinhood (LinkedIn confirmed). • Seong Lee (@seongboii) is real and has been publicly associated with Robinhood Crypto / product roles. • Paxos link: Paxos is a legitimate regulated partner (issues stablecoins, custody for PayPal/Mastercard). Early funding of their hot wallet fits infrastructure setup. • Community consensus: Multiple independent accounts on X have replicated or referenced parts of this tracing and reached similar conclusions about the funding cluster. What is weaker / unconfirmed: • No official Robinhood statement confirming $WALLET as their token. They have stayed silent. Robinhood does have an official self-custody Robinhood Wallet app that natively supports their new chain. • The exact Vlad Tenev “robust wallet” quote from July 8 wasn’t directly surfaced in quick searches (the linked older tweet was about something else). The on-chain breadcrumbs are the stronger part of the case. • Arkham labels and OpenSea “nomujja” attribution rely on heuristics/user reports — generally reliable for these profiles but not 100% infallible. • Current market status (as of mid-July 2026): Very low market cap (reports of ~$4M–$10M range recently), high volatility, typical of new tokens on a brand-new chain. Some early reports of issues with certain dubious tokens on the chain (not specific to $WALLET). Overall Assessment This is one of the more credible “insider/stealth token” narratives I’ve seen in crypto recently. Strengths of the thread: • Multi-wallet, multi-person, cross-chain tracing.

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  LogiBob (COMMS CLOSED) (@LogeeBob) reported 27 minutes ago

  comms are temporarily unpublished until i can figure out a better form of payment! having some trouble with paypal at the moment i'll continue to work on any comms that have been bought/requested already, but any new ones wont be accepted at the moment

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  Vin @ Vintuitive ⚡🌐 (@Vintuitive) reported 27 minutes ago

  @Gold_Phishy @troyhunt @haveibeenpwned His bank, NatWest, told him that it is blocking payments to PayPal accounts for his protection. He has used the same account for years to pay me via PayPal without any problems, until now.

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  Lenny Hartley Arranach (@JinglyLenny) reported 35 minutes ago

  @CraigMurrayOrg @SSalyers2 Paypal link not working! Just a spinny thing spinning!

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  Femi Alla (@femialla) reported 35 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal It's still not working. This is the same thing I have been doing for many days. I end up on the page with a "chat with us" button and I chat, the bot points me back to the same link I came from.

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  Кент228 (@omkc55) reported 35 minutes ago

  @TimN1984 @EthanLevins2 Google who banned PayPal, who shut down swift, yall took our ****. I thought you guys were about free markets and stuff. I don't want the kind of freedom where you can just talk **** freely and nothing else

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  Marsu (@marsuplamy) reported 35 minutes ago

  The Agentic Economy 2024 was the year of LLMs. ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and models like them responded to prompts and that was enough. But 2025 brought something different. Models were no longer just responding, they were planning, calling tools, executing code, coordinating with other systems, and doing all of this without constant human oversight. This transition transformed AI from something you query into something you delegate to. This is called agentic AI and with it an entirely new economy began to take shape. To understand the scale of this economy a few numbers are worth looking at. The AI agents market is expected to grow from 7.84 billion dollars in 2025 to 52.62 billion dollars by 2030, at a compound annual growth rate of 46.3%. McKinsey projects that agentic commerce could orchestrate between 3 and 5 trillion dollars in global revenue by 2030. These numbers are not theoretical, the infrastructure is already being built. In just the six month period between April and September 2025, Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, Stripe and Google all launched agentic payment infrastructures. So what are these agents actually doing? They are purchasing services on your behalf, paying other agents, accessing APIs, buying data, and doing all of this while making decisions in fractions of a second. Stablecoin transaction volume reached 33 trillion dollars in 2025, up 72% year over year, with supply surpassing 300 billion dollars. Agentic payments and machine to machine payment flows are cited as one of the key drivers behind this growth. Stablecoins like USDT and USDC are critical for agents because they allow programmable payments without price volatility. But legacy payment infrastructure was never designed for this world. Credit cards require human authentication, subscriptions demand upfront commitments, and API keys depend on manual onboarding processes. All of these systems were built for humans. When millions of agents are making countless payments per second none of these systems work technically or economically. x402 and the Awakening of HTTP 402 When web standards were being written in 1991 HTTP status code 402 was added and defined as 'Payment Required'. That day it was reserved, set aside for future use. This code waited more than thirty years and when its future arrived it turned out not to be human. The x402 standard activated this dormant code as a native payment layer for the internet: a server responds to a request with 402 and a price, the client pays on-chain in stablecoins, retries the request with proof of payment and receives the service. No account creation, no card on file, no subscription, no human. The protocol was launched in September 2025 by Coinbase and Cloudflare through the x402 Foundation. The coalition behind it is unusually broad, Google, Visa, AWS, Circle, Anthropic and Vercel are all core foundation members. Within five months of launch x402 had processed over 100 million transactions. In a single week in October 2025 the protocol handled approximately 500,000 payments, a 10,780% increase from the prior month. The technical side of x402 is very clean. For a developer integration is a single line of middleware, set a price per endpoint, point to a facilitator, and the API can charge per request in stablecoins. When an agent wants to access a service payment happens automatically inside the HTTP request, settlement completes within the round-trip. Zero human intervention. The Problem: Public Rails Don't Work for the Agentic Economy Now we come to the critical question. When millions of agents make transactions and every one of those transactions is visible on a public blockchain, what happens? Which APIs the agent uses, which data it accesses, which services it purchases, how much it pays, who it works with, all of it becomes completely visible. This is not just a user privacy problem, it means the strategy and logic the agent operates on is open to competitors. Is a company's agent feeding from the same data source as a rival's agent? How much is it spending on which compute services? How are supply chain decisions being made? All of this becomes readable on a public chain. On top of that there is the gas fee problem. On Ethereum and Tron fees shift constantly with network congestion. If an agent is making hundreds of microtransactions per second modeling your unit economics becomes impossible because you have no idea what costs will be in advance. For the agentic economy to work payment rails must be both private and predictably priced. Why Bitcoin is the Neutral Rail There are several clear answers to why Bitcoin stands out as the ideal settlement layer in this equation. First, censorship resistance. No central actor can stop, censor or restrict agent payments. For agents to operate autonomously the payment infrastructure must also be autonomous and uncensorable. Second, deterministic finality. Bitcoin's proof-of-work security is the most battle-tested and proven consensus mechanism in existence. For agent payments settlement must be definitive and irreversible. Third, global liquidity. Bitcoin is accessible everywhere in the world with no geographic restrictions and agents operate without borders. Fourth, the UTXO model. Unlike Ethereum's account-based model Bitcoin's UTXO structure allows non-conflicting transactions to be validated in parallel, a natural advantage for high-frequency agent payments. Where @Utexocom Fits The layer that combines Bitcoin's advantages with USDT and makes it production-ready for the agentic economy is Utexo. The RGB protocol issues and transfers USDT as a native asset on Bitcoin's own layer. Transfer details never get written to a public ledger thanks to client-side validation, only cryptographic commitments are anchored to Bitcoin UTXOs. So when an agent makes a payment who sent what to whom never leaks outward. The Lightning Network allows these assets to settle in milliseconds, at around 200ms latency. Utexo handles channel management, liquidity and routing entirely internally, with fees fixed and predefined at the protocol level. For the agentic economy this combination means the following. The agent pays in sub-second time, costs are predictable, payment details are private, and Bitcoin's finality provides the settlement guarantee. With the Mint component USDT from Ethereum, Tron or Solana can be moved onto Bitcoin rails. With the Swap component non-custodial exchange between BTC and USDT is possible. And the SDK reduces all of this complexity to a single API call, meaning a developer integrating agent payments never has to run a Lightning node or manage RGB infrastructure. Tether not only supporting this infrastructure but leading the seed round themselves, and preparing to issue USDT natively on Bitcoin through RGB protocol v0.11.1, answers the question of which rails the agentic economy will be built on. Machines are making payments now. Those payments need to be private, predictably priced, and anchored to Bitcoin. The infrastructure is here.

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  Nicola (@nicolakaye85) reported 36 minutes ago

  @MartinSLewis ...make X Y & Z transactions - exact same script as previous (genuine) call - no I did not. "There's also been an attempted login to PayPal, we will send a code to your email, please read it out to us" - alarm bells, I hung up but on a different day I might have fallen for it.

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  Alkana (@Alkanarich) reported 42 minutes ago

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  Priye Ruby Johnson (@PriyerubyJ) reported 43 minutes ago

  Hello @AskPayPal. My PayPal account was recently permanently limited because it was reportedly linked to another account with unresolved issues. I believe this may relate to an old account I created years ago but never really used. I respectfully request a manual review of my cas

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  MarcG (@ThisisMarcG) reported 44 minutes ago

  @troyhunt @haveibeenpwned Troy - a reminder that Proton was banned from PayPal. So their funding was done with Bitcoin. This is easy to set up with a @BtcpayServer server. I have faith in you. Gosh, even Pavel _himself_ just offered to help. So pls don't lose your legendary tech status Troy....

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  Anwar (@anwarbaksh) reported 45 minutes ago

  I helped a client grow from $250K to $2M ARR by transitioning their store from PayPal Buy Now buttons to a full WooCommerce store. Here's the active plugin stack running the site today: Admin Columns Payment Fee Admin Columns Pro Block Emails & Addresses for WooCommerce Cart Abandonment Recovery for WooCommerce Code Snippets Duplicate Page Error Log Viewer GTM4WP Invoice Payment Option LiteSpeed Cache ShipStation for WooCommerce WooCommerce WooCommerce PayPal Payments WooCommerce Ship Discounts — custom plugin I built WooCommerce Stripe Gateway WooPayments Wordfence Security WP Mail Logging Code Snippets handles the smaller customizations that don't need dedicated plugin. Maintenance costs less than $200/month. The client has control, flexibility, scalability, and portability. You don't always need an expensive "enterprise" stack to run a serious eCommerce business. Sometimes you just need to build the right stack, and maintain it properly.

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  Natan (@nataninvesting) reported 50 minutes ago

  @Rajesh32369175 As you can see in my post I find Transmedics and Procept more attractive, in particular considering that they went down since april while paypal went up

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  British Sikh (@RupTroop) reported 55 minutes ago

  @TIM_x_AI @MarsUniversityX No. Software engineer / Physicist turned billionaire entrepreneur, can you think of any other people that have gone down that route? He made his money via founding zip2 and co-founding PayPal.

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  ShredBTC (@shredhead89) reported 56 minutes ago

  The real 🐻 is going to hit you when your not ready and it’s gunna be a slow bleed - 5 months in you won’t even know he’s got you by the ankles - go ask the Netflix people or the Wendy’s people or the unh people go ask PayPal go ask game stop - your in it and big tech will fall