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  Valeria Alarcón (@VallAlarcon) reported 24 seconds ago

  @Beyond_LIVE Can't buy my ticket. PayPal is not working. I've tried with 3 different cards. Please help I'm from Ecuador

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  ଶୁଭ୍ରାଂଶୁ Subhransu K. Panda (@skpaanda) reported 51 seconds ago

  @jackerhack @GooglePayIndia @NPCI I faced the same issue with PayPal.

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  Elizabeth Farrell (@ElizabethF6116) reported 3 minutes ago

  Aah the same bloody sandals Snowy.. Demanded my money back but got nowhere..wrote a review..Bloody Rubbish.. I used PayPal for 8 years..no problem They got taken over a few years ago.. My account got hacked..so I do not use it now.. Fraud Squad was on the ball..so lost no money Thank you Snowy

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  BoyeFran (@HugoBoyefran) reported 5 minutes ago

  @LynxiTwitch @official_throne I crowd funded a new audio interface through Throne for my birthday stream early on in my streaming and it was the first time and last time I used this method to fund anything due to this very issue. They take so much in fees it can really add up. especially if it is many small donations. You are much better off using ko-fi and attaching you paypal account.

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  Ritesh Roushan (@devXritesh) reported 8 minutes ago

  Everyone has used UPI, Stripe, or Razorpay Very few developers know what happens after you click " Pay Now " Here's a production-scale Payment Processing System. 👇 1. Client → API Gateway • Authenticate the user. • Apply rate limiting. • Generate an idempotency key to prevent duplicate payments. 2. Payment Service Before charging: • Validate the amount. • Verify the order exists. • Check payment status. • Create a payment record as `PENDING`. Never charge first. 3. Payment Gateway The request is forwarded to: • Stripe • Razorpay • PayPal • Bank APIs The gateway returns a success/failure response. 4. Webhooks Never trust the client response. The payment provider sends a webhook confirming: • SUCCESS • FAILED • REFUNDED • CHARGEBACK Webhooks become the source of truth. 5. Event Queue (Kafka) After confirmation: Publish: PaymentCompleted Consumers process it independently. 6. Downstream Services Different services consume the same event. • Order Service → Mark order as PAID • Inventory Service → Reduce stock • Notification Service → Send Email/SMS • Analytics Service → Update dashboards No service calls another directly. 7. Database Store: • Payment ID • Order ID • Status • Transaction ID • Provider • Timestamp PostgreSQL is commonly used for transactional consistency. 8. Failure Handling What if payment succeeds but the API crashes? No problem. The webhook retries. The idempotency key ensures the payment is processed only once. 9. Monitoring Track: • Failed payments • Success rate • Gateway latency • Webhook failures • Retry count Alert immediately when failure rates spike. Tech Stack • API Gateway • PostgreSQL • Kafka • Redis • Stripe/Razorpay • Kubernetes • Prometheus + Grafana • OpenTelemetry This is why production payment systems are event-driven not just a single API call. Which system should I break down next?

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  Startup Archive (@StartupArchive_) reported 9 minutes ago

  Peter Thiel on what he doesn’t like about the Lean Startup Thiel believes there are merits to the Lean Startup, but he thinks founders today may have over-indexed on it: “I do think we tend to be dominated by a somewhat nihilistic bias where we claim not to know anything. And when you don’t know anything, you end up defaulting too much to the experimental search, A/B testing approach of ‘Let’s ask the customers.’ And I would say the problem with that is that the search space is simply way too big.” In practice, Thiel argues for a more definite view of the future: “This is an important problem that needs to be solved, and this is the set of things we have to combine in just this way to do it.” To be fair, Steve Blank—who pioneered the Lean Startup methodology—isn’t necessarily against this approach. Blank just recommends treating your assumptions as “a series of untested hypotheses.” But there’s clearly a balance between having a definite view of the future and rigorously trying to disprove your assumptions. As Thiel explains, many of the PayPal founding team’s initial assumptions were wrong: “At PayPal, our original business plan was to have payments on Palm Pilots, then it was wireless payments, then it was payments linked to email. So we had a few fairly big pivots in the first year. I’m not sure there’s anything especially virtuous about that — if you have a dumb idea, it’s important to change it — but it’s not virtuous to have a really bad idea in the first place.” Source: @OxfordSBS (May 2015)

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  Gàidheal 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (@gaidhealdubh) reported 12 minutes ago

  Okay. So having issues with PayPal. FANTASTIC ******* NEWS 🫩🫩🫩🫩🫩🫩🫩🫩🫩🫩🫩

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  SquirellioN•COMMS-OPEN (@SquirellioN2711) reported 13 minutes ago

  @LaineyTheow4ll Not at the time, my Paypal account is having problems so I can't receive any payments until the problem is fixed.

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  gee 🍁 | hualian fic 📌 comms open! (@tappithais) reported 14 minutes ago

  oh deary me paypal decided to be a little funny so i have to fix payment methods but because it's already late i'll just do it tomorrow ;; i cant seem to catch a break you guys :(

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  West Lord (@MyWestLord) reported 15 minutes ago

  Elon Musk got 5 minutes at USC in 2014 and packed 4 rules into them that still outwork every $200 MBA book. Rule 1: came with a scene instead of a slide 2 brothers skipping the apartment to sleep on a couch in a rented office, showering at the YMCA, sharing 1 computer so the website ran by day while Elon coded through the night, 7 days a week, and his girlfriend had to sleep in the office just to see him. His math was brutal: when someone works 50 hours and you work 100, you ship 2 years of progress in 1. Rule 2: a company is nothing but people, so gather great ones or join great ones, because talent and direction decide everything else. Rule 3: signal over noise, which is why Tesla spent $0 on advertising and poured every dollar into R&D, manufacturing and design, killing any effort that didn’t make the car better. Rule 4: reason from first principles the way physicists cracked quantum mechanics, boiling things down to fundamental truths and building up from there instead of copying whatever the crowd does. Then the closer, aimed straight at 22-year-olds with no mortgage and no kids: risk gets expensive with age, and every added obligation turns bold moves into careful ones. He built PayPal, Tesla and SpaceX on those 4 rules. The couch came before the rockets.

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  Chrisncreation.inj 🥷 (@NwudeChris1) reported 17 minutes ago

  Meet Maya. She isn’t a crypto trader. She’s a graphic designer who just wants to send money to a developer in Tokyo without paying a $35 wire fee. Last year, a friend told her to try using a fast financial network. So she did. But the second she tried to move her funds, the screen hit her with a pop-up: “Please convert your ERC-20 token to the native chain using a cross-chain bridge.” Maya stared at her phone. Bridge? ERC-what? She closed the app and used Paypal. That’s the silent killer of crypto. We built incredible financial highways, but we locked the doors with confusing jargon, manual token conversions, and terrifying multi-step bridges. If you have to explain network standards to someone just so they can trade a token, you’ve already lost them. This week, two massive things happened for Injective ($INJ) that fix this exact problem. First, @coinbase finished migrating INJ entirely to its native network. No bridging, no wrapped tokens, no accidental burnt funds. You buy it, you withdraw it straight to where it actually runs. Second, $INJ went live on @RobinhoodApp . Because Robinhood and Coinbase are where everyday people, the Mayas of the world actually hang out. Instead of forcing millions of retail investors to jump through technical hoops, the friction was simply erased. @injective brought high-speed financial tools directly to the apps people already use. The future of crypto adoption isn't about teaching non-technical people how the machinery works. It’s about making the machinery invisible. When moving money on-chain feels as effortless as sending an email, that’s when real adoption happens. We’re finally getting closer to that world.

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  k a t i e⁷ (@serendipityjik) reported 18 minutes ago

  Girl wth I think I have my jersey but my weverse is freaking out and telling me not logged in, can’t load, try again, PayPal not working MY GOD IM STRESSED

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  Dami O. Mogaji (@daminister14) reported 28 minutes ago

  I have no issues with closing customers account - it's their prerogative. However if you close an account, you should return the funds to the customer. It's not your money! Same for PayPal too

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  Albatross Protocol (@usealbatross) reported 29 minutes ago

  Introducing Alba Pay. 💳 Buy ANY memecoin with Apple Pay, Google Pay or PayPal. Private. No KYC. No CEX. The problem: Moonshot and every fiat onramp only let you in once a coin hits a certain market cap. The fresh launches, the ones still bonding, the real early plays? Locked out. Alba Pay does not care. Any market cap. Bonded or not. A coin that launched seconds ago? Buy it with the card in your pocket, straight to your wallet. 💳 Apple Pay · Google Pay · PayPal 🔒 Private by default, zero KYC ⚡ Instant settlement 📱 Native app for iOS and Android Fiat to any memecoin in seconds. Buy the launch, not the aftermath. Coming to the App Store and Google Play. 12th of August! $ALBATROSS

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  Nekt0 (@Nekt_0) reported 35 minutes ago

  Elon Musk in 2007, after the PayPal exit: His test for starting a company was simple: if it succeeds, does it matter to the world? He had enough money to retire. Instead, he chose 3 problems: the internet, sustainable energy and making humanity multi-planetary. SpaceX was still trying to become a "trucking company" to orbit. Tesla was selling an expensive Roadster so cheaper electric cars could follow. At the time, rockets and EVs looked like two unrelated ways to burn money. The strategy was the same: prove the impossible version first, then make it scalable. Most founders start with a market and search for a mission afterward. Musk started with missions large enough to justify risking the money.