Paypal Outage Map

Community Discussion

Tips? Frustrations? Share them here. Useful comments include a description of the problem, city and postal code.

Beware of "support numbers" or "recovery" accounts that might be posted below. Make sure to report and downvote those comments. Avoid posting your personal information.

Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

• 
  Palmer (@BankTheTrade) reported 5 minutes ago

  $PYPL 61.47 down 10 a report that potential buyers of the payments company have walked away from negotiations. Shareholders will have to put their faith in the company's turnaround plans instead. Financial-technology company Stripe and private-equity firm Advent International have given up on acquiring PayPal after offering more than $50 billion for the company, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter.

• 
  Lina ᥫ᭡.ִֶָ𓂃 (@fundsssss) reported 6 minutes ago

  @PayPal Why is my account restricted??????? Saying I haven’t logged in for over 3 years? Why the lie? This is the third PayPal account I’m opening that’s getting closed down for no damn reason. If you know you don’t want Nigerians using your stupid app then just ban us ffs!! Wtf

• 
  0xMM (@0xmintmee) reported 6 minutes ago

  pyusd is down from a $4b peak in march to about $2.7b. paypal has folded it into a broader payments unit.

• 
  Arcane | Artificial Intelligence (@Arcane_Aii) reported 6 minutes ago

  If someone hacks your Gmail, they don't need your passwords. They can reset everything. Bank. Instagram. Apple ID. Crypto. PayPal. Password manager. Your Gmail isn't email. It's the master key to your entire life. Here's how to lock it down in 10 minutes: 🧵

• 
  Upsideonly (@OwnYourAttntion) reported 7 minutes ago

  @TheLongInvest The problem with PayPal is that it is a s*** company.

• 
  Lightning News (@LightningNewsX) reported 7 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.

• 
  fae ˖⁠♡ (@callaalili) reported 7 minutes ago

  Trust issue ak sm paypal

• 
  Studio Jimmy (@heystudiojimmy) reported 9 minutes ago

  One of the best moments of building @usefelar so far. A producer just signed up and messaged me: “I had to leave BeatStars because of the PayPal issue.” This is exactly why I’m building FELAR. Producers shouldn’t have to give up selling their music because they can’t access a payment method. We’re fixing that. 🧡

• 
  BARON 🐂 (@BARONMOND_1) reported 9 minutes ago

  @zubic_eth This is why so many people left PayPal. They ignore the problem then punish the person who reported it

• 
  Matt Zylbert (@MattZylbert) reported 10 minutes ago

  @DUBNATION107 @BookitWithTrent Wasn't "begging" anything. It's to deposit into betting accounts thru Venmo/PayPal because my bank gives issues and I get the run-around from them and bet apps

• 
  Mimi (@mimicomments) reported 15 minutes ago

  @DrewPavlou Perhaps you could set up something simple like a buy me a coffee or paypal me link so people can support you directly. The Flynn issue seems hopeless for now. I hope that can eventually get resolves but seems you need to have a way for people to support you in general:

• 
  M Heilner (@mjh2008) reported 15 minutes ago

  @CharliePawsUp Ok, folks - time to rally the troops and support our pal @CharliePawsUp and his mama! They have until Monday to get the rent money together and are behind on other bills, too, due to slow summer store months. Links in bio for PayPal and turkey sammiches!

• 
  Cristiano Augusto Tofani (@AugustoTofani) reported 20 minutes ago

  @Barchart @VladTheInflator The tape says something sharper than the headline. The board turned down $60.50 as too low. Yesterday the stock closed at $61.47, above the price it had refused. That is not merger arbitrage, that is the market pricing a bump nobody had agreed to pay. When the option expires, so does the premium. $53.97 after hours is roughly where the standalone case already was. The interesting part is why the buyers walked. Not price alone: the board flagged regulatory and financing obstacles. Stripe plus PayPal would have been around 63% of online checkout. That deal had an antitrust problem before it had a price problem. The part worth keeping: a $53bn take-private of a business guiding to about $5.38 of adjusted EPS, with $486bn of quarterly payment volume growing 10%, could not get financed in the same month AI infrastructure raised more than that at coupons under 1%. Capital is not scarce. It is directional. At roughly 10x 2027 estimates, PayPal is a turnaround again, and now priced as one.

• 
  Volodya (@vladimirdotcom) reported 24 minutes ago

  Just pieced together the $KLAR boardroom saga. It deserves the long read. 2005: three students found Klarna — Siemiatkowski, Jacobsson, Adalberth. Their idea takes one of the last places at a business-plan competition. An angel funds them anyway. 2010: Sequoia invests. Michael Moritz — the man who wrote the firm’s checks into Yahoo, Google and PayPal, later Stripe — takes the board seat himself. 2012: Jacobsson leaves. Company worth roughly $1 BN. As far as I know he never builds anything again. Instead he spends 14 years quietly accumulating Klarna stock, using founder pre-emption rights to buy out other holders — much of it at down-round prices. By the IPO filing he holds 8.8% of the company. More than the CEO’s 7.4%. And he keeps a proxy on the board. 2015: Adalberth leaves too — sells most of his stake, builds a foundation, stays on good terms. That’s what a clean exit looks like. Remember the contrast. Meanwhile Siemiatkowski builds: Germany, the banking license, the US, 26 countries, 120m users. Before the IPO he borrows $112m against his own shares to buy MORE stock. At the $40 IPO he sells zero. July 2023: Moritz retires from Sequoia after 38 years — but keeps the Klarna chairmanship, now as a private individual. January 2024: Sequoia needs a new board rep. Enter Matt Miller, 12 years at the firm. Track record: one win (Confluent), one zero (Graphcore, written off in 2022). (Side note - compare it with what Moritz achieved as an investor) February 2024, six weeks into the seat: Miller files to remove Moritz as chairman — aligned with Jacobsson’s camp. Here’s the part I can’t get over. Miller inherited his firm seat from a man half the industry would work for free just to sit in the room with — and moved against him within six weeks. You can call it governance. The market called it something else… It lasts a week. Siemiatkowski flies to San Francisco. Sequoia withdraws the request and publicly apologizes: we fully support Michael as chairman. Miller is pulled off the board, by December he’s out of Sequoia entirely. Truly deserved. October 2024: the board votes out Jacobsson’s proxy after 8 years. Weeks later, Klarna files for its IPO. Then the epilogue. March 2026, lockup week, the overhang everyone feared: Moritz puts $49.9m of his own money in at an average of $14.37. August 2026, eight days after a guidance cut crushed the stock 23%: Siemiatkowski buys ~$10m at $14.37. Same price, six months apart, from the two people who know this company best. Moritz’s whole career is one repeated bet — back the unconsensus founder. Brin and Page. He says it himself in every interview. At $14 he made that bet again: his own money, against his own former firm’s coup, for the founder he’s watched for 16 years. Two camps fought for this company. One built it. The other accumulated it. The builders won every round — and then bought the dip. I’m long $KLAR. Pick your side.

• 
  Cadillac Ceryss #smokefleet #nafo (@SerlyFilya) reported 29 minutes ago

  @ooyanggy 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.