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  Mr Hankey (@hivanchi) reported 2 minutes ago

  @paypal - leaving another message to be lost in wilderness of the internet. Had to do a chargeback for what seems to be a clear item not received issue. Never open these type of cases, but both @eBay and @paypal denied a simple case. Both their customer services are subpar.

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  Michael Klusman (@Candmremodeling) reported 3 minutes ago

  I bet he wishes he didn’t have to sell the ones he did. However I think he did that on purpose to drive the price down to buy more. Based on math the supply should be just about gobbled up. With what you can do with bitcoin it is clearly a utility and not going away. Who in there right mind would sell with all the major brokers now selling bitcoin ??? Charles Schwab, Wells Fargo, Venmo, PayPal Morgan Stanley it’s only a matter of time keep buying and stacking

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  OwenCarter (@OwenCarter_k) reported 3 minutes ago

  $PYPL: Acquisition hopes dashed; retail investors debate "value trap" vs. "undeserved sell-off." Review of the previous trading session: PYPL plunged 12.7% last Friday, ranking among the worst performers on the Nasdaq and S&P 500. Capital that had flowed in based on acquisition rumors during the previous quarter exited en masse; discussions on X shifted from "how much would Stripe pay?" to "what is PayPal actually worth as a standalone business?" (Source: Reuters) Key Event: Stripe and Advent reportedly abandoned plans to acquire PayPal; the prior offer was around $60.50 per share (implying a valuation of ~$53 billion), but negotiations collapsed due to disagreements over pricing, financing, and regulatory issues. Bullish Views: PayPal’s valuation is already significantly lower than that of most payment industry peers; Venmo, Checkout, and its crypto business still hold value for potential spin-offs. The new CEO is driving business restructuring and cost controls, meaning future earnings recovery need not rely solely on acquisitions. The current valuation may still attract interest from other private equity firms or payment companies. Bearish Views: The recent rally was driven primarily by M&A premiums; following the deal's collapse, the stock must be repriced based on fundamentals. PayPal’s branded checkout market share continues to be squeezed by competitors like Apple Pay and Shop Pay. Without a rebound in revenue growth, the low valuation could persist; one cannot assume a market bottom simply because the stock has fallen sharply. Trading Strategy: Avoid trying to catch a rebound immediately after the initial sharp drop; first, observe whether the price stabilizes in the $52–$54 range. A recovery above $57–$58 is required to confirm that panic selling has been absorbed; until then, it is better to watch from the sidelines rather than taking a heavy position in hopes of another buyer emerging.

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  GrapheneOS (@GrapheneOS) reported 8 minutes ago

  @TechX1320 @linuxuser1996 PayPal works on GrapheneOS with the per-app compatibility mode. It recently started requiring disabling secure spawning but works fine with the other defaults. It's a bug in PayPal's anti-tampering code and they'll likely fix it soon. It's unrelated to it not working elsewhere.

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  jinowns (@Jinowns87) reported 10 minutes ago

  Here's another neat trick I do every year. If you have paypal, you can break down the entire cost into 4 payments. Meaning you pay 25% percent now while PayPal pays the merchant the entire amount and then you can make payments every 2 weeks. Doooo iiiittttt!!

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  Acro (@AcroDraw) reported 10 minutes ago

  @RedbubbleHelp my artist account was suspended after I had a few problems with paypal verification. I've never done anything that goes against the terms of service & you didn't respond to my appeal. I was looking forward to using your platform, please help.

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  ari 🫧 (@pinkeomii) reported 10 minutes ago

  came to the conclusion that it is my cards and not my paypal cuz it wouldn’t let me use another app either so if it’s still not working by the time i wake up ill contact my bank AGAIN

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  NoCreaturesWereHarmed (@NoCWereHarmed) reported 11 minutes ago

  Apparently PayPal was having some issues so I added stripe in the meantime. PayPal should be straightened out by Tuesday as they need those test deposits to clear in my new business account. You can buy via Stripe now.

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  Nikolas Spiridakis (@nikolasspyr) reported 18 minutes ago

  @linuxuser1996 Paypal app is just terrible, nothing to do with Graphene OS

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  Roxfan (@Roxfan_13) reported 19 minutes ago

  @Genki_JPN Anyone else having issues pre-ordering? Paypal refuses to use my Mastercard, direct payment redirects to PayPal

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  紅葉MOMICHI 🔜VeXpo (@momichiword) reported 24 minutes ago

  @cloverclubcos If it’s not too much trouble!!! I’d really appreciate it if you could help me with this. I can pay for the item and shipping via PayPal, and I also have a forwarding warehouse that can ship it to Taiwan for me, which should be a little cheaper than shipping it directly🥹

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  Cadillac Ceryss #smokefleet #nafo (@SerlyFilya) reported 24 minutes ago

  @The_Great_Null I haven't been able to work for about 2 years now due to sudden health complications needing surgery. This one illness has destroyed my husband and I financially. The injection I need isn't covered by my insurance and costs $500 month. Now my husband gets paid and after bills there like $100 left for food for 2 weeks. We have been living on cereal, cheap frozen pizzas and hot dogs. Sometimes I dont eat for a few days so the food lasts longer. If we could any donation to help out, We would be so thankful! Hopefully these gas and grocery prices go down and I get healthy enough to work again. I dont even know how much to ask for...$500 or $1000? Here is my PayPal QR code.

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  saph 🦄 (@stevestappen) reported 25 minutes ago

  @darksainzrising they're trying to shut down the donations system (attempting to report to paypal and other portals that AO3 accepts donations from about the "depraved works" hosted by the website)

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  Lightning News (@LightningNewsX) reported 27 minutes ago

  Bitcoin’s payment history is full of moments that look completely unhinged in hindsight. Here are five of the wildest historic examples of it actually being used to buy real things. 1. Two Papa John’s pizzas for 10,000 BTC (May 22, 2010) 
Programmer Laszlo Hanyecz posted on Bitcointalk offering 10,000 bitcoin for two large pizzas. Jeremy Sturdivant took him up on it, ordered from Papa John’s, and delivered them. At the time the coins were worth roughly $41. That single transaction is widely recognized as the first real-world commercial purchase with Bitcoin. Hanyecz kept the offer open for months and later said he spent tens of thousands more BTC on pizza that year. Those original 10,000 coins are now worth well over a billion dollars. Bitcoin Pizza Day is still celebrated every May 22. 2. Alpaca wool socks for 75 BTC a pair (February 2011) 
A small family farm in Haydenville, Massachusetts—Grass Hill Alpacas—became one of the first merchants to accept Bitcoin after the owner’s son convinced his parents. They charged 75 BTC per pair of socks (Bitcoin was still under a dollar). Orders came in from around the world; even lead developer Gavin Andresen bought some. Within months the price of Bitcoin rose so fast they slashed the sock price to 5 BTC. Those original 75-BTC pairs would later be worth millions. The humble alpaca became an unofficial early Bitcoin mascot. 3. Crossing the United States living only on Bitcoin (April–June 2011) 
A Bitcoiner known as Plato (TheRealPlato) drove from Connecticut to California without spending a single U.S. dollar. Bitcoin was around $1–$2 and almost no businesses accepted it. He relied on forum members, in-person trades, and people willing to buy him gas or food and accept BTC in return. He documented the trip on a blog and Twitter using the hashtag #BitcoinRoadTrip. It was one of the earliest real-world tests of whether Bitcoin could function as actual money when almost nobody treated it that way. 4. WikiLeaks surviving a financial blockade with Bitcoin donations (June 2011) 
After WikiLeaks published classified U.S. diplomatic cables, Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, and others cut off donations, wiping out an estimated 95% of its revenue. The organization started accepting Bitcoin. Satoshi Nakamoto publicly warned that the attention could be dangerous for the still-tiny network (“WikiLeaks has kicked the hornet’s nest”). Donations still flowed—more than 4,000 BTC over the following years. It became one of the first high-profile demonstrations that Bitcoin could work as censorship-resistant money when traditional payment rails were shut down. 5. A Hawaiian flight attendant buys a ticket to space with 350 BTC (November 2013) 
Richard Branson announced that Virgin Galactic would accept Bitcoin for its $250,000 suborbital flights. The first customer was a flight attendant from Hawaii who paid the full fare in bitcoin—about 350 BTC at the time. Branson converted the coins to dollars immediately to lock in the price. It was the first known purchase of a spaceflight ticket with cryptocurrency and a surreal snapshot of how quickly some early holders were willing to spend their coins on once-in-a-lifetime experiences. These were creative, small-scale, often improvised payments that happened when Bitcoin was still a curiosity. But the important thing is this: the payments settled on an immutable ledger that’s verified by the public and no intermediary was required.

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  guy that likes starlo 🏳️‍🌈🇲🇽🇵🇸 (@cheesemuffin69) reported 30 minutes ago

  @SAY4CHEESE4 I think cuz of a gambling problem I had PayPal kept thinking my acc got hacked so I’m permanently banned from there