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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  k (@karl_1984) reported 2 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal Hi, I'm locked out of my PayPal account because the verification code is being sent to an old phone number. I can't login to update, can you help me to reset the phone number or disable sms verification so I can regain access please?

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  💜🤍❤️SoCalRoving ⁷ ❤️🤍💜 (@SoCalRoving) reported 4 minutes ago

  @Katarinna @mimijungoogie I hope they get it figured out. PayPal is slow and I often miss out on merch because of the purchase time.

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  Debbie Iron Bow (@DebbieIronbow) reported 5 minutes ago

  @ruppe_tr Yes my friend, it did work, thank you. My only problem with paypal is that it will take until next week to hit my account. But it will help so much until that first payday. Everything helps right now, especially with teens to look after while I try stay working 🥰

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  PaperImperium (@ImperiumPaper) reported 6 minutes ago

  One of the most perplexing things about stablecoins is that pretty much only Tether consistently makes money, followed by MakerDAO/Sky (until recent years). Others seem to trend towards losses (Circle is a great example). Why is this perplexing? Because the world has birthed thousands of stablecoins with many, many different design architectures: * Bank deposits (CDP) * Banknotes (CDP or fully reserved) * Non-redeemable notes (algorithmic) * Metallic tokens (fiduciary or full-bodied) * Scrip (redeemable in-kind) * Central bank notes (algorithmic, fiduciary, or CDP) Most of these were successful because they alleviated money shortages* or enjoyed government monopoly. But when it comes to fully reserved (that is, 100% of the backing assets are highly liquid) private currencies, there really are very few examples of success. You could argue the Bank of Amsterdam and Venetian Banco di Rialto are examples, but they made their money mostly as custodians and other money services. Also, both are 400+ years in the past, which is a long way to reach for an example of success. So how did full-reserve standard become the model for stablecoins? USDC isn’t a big money maker, but at least it has enormous scale. USDG is winding down. GUSD, BUSD, USDP aren’t examples of winners. FDUSD also in retreat. And PayPal and Ripple throw vast sums of money at incentives. Notably, GENIUS when it comes into force prohibits issuers tying their users to buying other services from them, which is how they probably need to make money. Where full-reserve does seem to find PMF in the modern world is as a simple store of value - money market funds. The trouble is they are mostly short-term parking places AND hold assets that are disallowed under many emerging stablecoin regulatory regimes (e.g. commercial paper and certificates of deposit) So… how did it become consensus that a safe and sound stablecoin must be more constrained than a money market fund, and how did it become consensus that this model would be a good business when Circle struggles even with a $75b float? Given that this has been the hands-down, undisputed killer use case for crypto, it feels strange that more people don’t try to trace the steps of how we got to this consensus. * I have long been on record that Tether’s success is less to do with crypto per se than in alleviating USD shortages in venues with few or no dollars (like blockchains and non-US countries)

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  Brandon Forinash (@blforinash) reported 9 minutes ago

  @ThePolverine_ But I will need a 5 dollar down payment, cause I feel like you're wasting my time. I can dm you me paypal. Hartenstein could definitely take less than 20 mil to return to OKC! Come on.

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  alice/flecki (@mygfswife) reported 11 minutes ago

  @momslittlefag yeaaa okay so I've been trying to set anything up buut I don't think it's gonna work.. and after seeing throne has like issues with some countries w paypal and i may not be able to withdraw anything idk if i should keep making it or if i just like try another site ..

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  Junior WC Value🥶 (@Hallebarry010) reported 12 minutes ago

  21-year-old student living with her mum, single for 6+ months, openly admits she dates for money and will cheat if he doesn’t pay up Babe, you’re not looking for a boyfriend, you’re running a side hustle with terrible ROI. Loyalty isn’t a PayPal invoice, and the streets already have better rates.

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  The Scambaiters (@TheScambaiters) reported 14 minutes ago

  @awscloud Thanks for your quick response to Nuking a Fraudulent PayPal Website, our other contacts shut down their Phones...

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  zene | comms open!! (@zenezene0) reported 15 minutes ago

  remitly is an app like paypal but not paypal because it's banned where i live. it's very easy to use,i login to app and create a remitly link for requesting money and send you the link,you open the link and send only the written amount with minimal transfer fee

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  Estrella💫🦇 (@EstrellaAuritus) reported 21 minutes ago

  @yabaguu @CuppyCakiee So they removed stripe awhile back. People got upset about it. Then they added stripe back recently. I think it had something to do with tos and conflicts. Throne allowing NSFW items and funding probably didn't go well during the payment processor freak out if I had to guess. also a note on paypal. It can effect taxes at the end of the year to have any payouts go there. Like twitch, tips from other platforms and throne. Although i didn't know we could have it go to paypal for throne. Its not hard to fix if your tax person knows but you risk being taxed twice for that income. Purely speaking as a united state's living individual.

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  Fics 🇵🇸 🍉 (@Fanficismything) reported 21 minutes ago

  @enchannw Yuuup, especially with payment issues for people supporting you ie paypal style 😭 id definately look into it more, im not 1000% sure

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  . ˚ ⊹ millie 🧸 (@milliedreams_) reported 28 minutes ago

  @DarkGoomi @Sugary_Dolly @celesteiaVT the problem is that i didn’t pay with my bank. the money was transferred to me from a friend and i paid like that with paypal bc i was new to the country and couldn’t open a bank acct so the money is lost for good.

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  Norgesbanken (@norgesbanken) reported 35 minutes ago

  Copy of message to Stripe in US about closing an old account: That is the problem, the Oxyd Fianancial Corporation is registered, but you do decline the company, so CLOSE the account and give me my funds on that account, I use PayPal and trash the stripe system.

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  AkuziKe😅 (@Akuzike_di) reported 36 minutes ago

  @PayPal has now extended its PYUSD stable coin for usage in Malawi. What does this mean for the average Malawian or business? a thread/text/whatever well, this means a good step in the right direction but still practically nothing substantial for the average Malawian. Why you ask? 1. Mostly because with the forex situation in Malawi, the only way yo access/deposit money into paypal is through the parallel market which is expensive in itself without considering the huge fees that come with PayPal services. So basically for you to buy PYUSD, you still have to deposit money into your paypal account which requires your bank card to have a USD allocation, and we know most of us dont have the connections. BUT!, On the bright side, being a stable coin this means that if you are able to get your hands on the PYUSD you can transfer it to another paypal or venmo account globally with no fees and instantly. But charges are there for any conversion or withdraw from their stable coin “PYUSD” to any other crypto coin on the blockchain. This is Crypto 101, you are better off just using any-other crypto coin than this BS really. 2. Paypal runs custodial wallets. what this means is that; as you own an account with them, you are subject to their scrutiny in terms of identification, proving source of funds and explaining any “shady” transactions in your account. They will literally scrutinize every transaction that comes and goes in and out of your account. This is where being a third world citizen of a country like malawi starts to work against you. Because we are flagged as high risk areas when it comes to fraud and money laundering, and this is why you always hear stores from people talking about having their money frozen by paypal without proper explanations. You can literally avoid this by just using another other crypto services out there, the scrutiny is there but not as much. 3. This is not a new service or breakthrough as Paypal is putting out to be, we already have access to better stable crypto coins that can be accessed through more friendlier services such as binance,bitget, trust wallet, etc you name it. But!, Am not saying there are no problems there, but you will have a less of a hustle using those platforms. I for one, have been using binance for years now, and have never gotten my money frozen, you can literally send and receive money to/from any user on Binance across the globe with zero charges and instantly. If you have heard of people getting rich off crypto pakatipa, this is where the loophole was exploited but thats a story for another day. I can keep going, but these are the main 3 reasons why @PayPal introducing its PYUSD in Malawian changes anything for you as an average Malawian. Rock on!

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  Y.R.N Rider (@Ridertwizzy) reported 38 minutes ago

  @Ur_Shubham @AskPayPal I'm getting the same thing too how did you fix it bro