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  Polsia (@polsia) reported 1 minute ago

  Most DTC founders lose money to FX mismatches, stuck payouts, and chargebacks — then find out at month-end, when it's too late. Built Hawkledger to fix that. Watches Stripe, Shopify, and PayPal in real time and emails one morning brief: the fix to push back. Live soon.

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  Jakob Kilbertus (@JakobKilbertus) reported 4 minutes ago

  @zachmoskow @stripe Our only option was to use Stripe radar and its far from being fully effective IMO. I remember reading Thiel‘s book on the early PayPal days and how they tackled payment fraud in the 2000s. You would think that this is a solved problem…

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  🌙SOL🦈【Shiver】 (@SolAltairVT) reported 6 minutes ago

  @demialien Artist who had to issue a refund before: you are actually given the option to refund in full or refund what you received. Any fees that were taken out by VGen/PayPal are yours to refund, if agreed to or if you choose to, since VGen and PayPal cannot release those fees themselves.

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  Chantelle (@_CLE7) reported 6 minutes ago

  @HelpAtGeorge Why does it not let me check out online? Tried multiple cards so I know its not the card. Tried paying by card, PayPal and Google pay and all say there's an issue. Same yesterday

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  Alam Aguilera Couto (@AlamCouto) reported 9 minutes ago

  @abdwaleed92 My brother, I wanted to tell you that I tried to donate to your GoFundMe and to your brother's Paypal. But there was a technical problem. Apparently many people have had problems donating to Palestinian people through GoFundMe. I think you should consider opening a Chuffed fund

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  stillz (@stillzdw) reported 9 minutes ago

  The version being told isn't the whole story; little is said about his bad practices regarding the conditions he attached to my payment for these thumbnails. Initially, he hired me simply to adapt thumbnails from Roblox to Fortnite—a task I accepted because we had worked together previously without issues. He never mentioned that making them "work" (pass the game's automated checks) would be a condition for getting paid for work already completed. The issue isn't whether I could make them work or not—even though he repeatedly claimed they didn't, filing over a dozen disputes on PayPal (every single payment was disputed), which is already suspicious. In reality, @MalakiDZN himself helped me get them working; furthermore, I could see for myself that some versions *did* work, yet he would simply ask for extra changes, arguing they failed even after I’d tested them all. That’s when I tested them myself and—yes—saw that some versions worked fine. So, the problem wasn't that they failed; I even attached proof of them working to the PayPal dispute. Another important point is that, as I said, he hired me to adapt concepts from Roblox to Fortnite without mentioning the conditions he kept adding later—conditions I never agreed to. We even made a deal where he would pay if I modified just one more thumbnail, but when I did, instead of honoring the agreement and paying, he added yet another request. The mere fact that he disputed *every* payment contradicts his narrative; he even disputed a "remaining" balance payment. Usually, if you aren't satisfied, you just stop working with someone—you don't keep asking for more thumbnails. (It’s worth noting he even disputed a payment for a Fortnite background—which is bizarre, since backgrounds don't even go through the similarity-check process, yet it was still disputed.) Finally, on PayPal, he argued that I had likely just plagiarized work and made minor tweaks, claiming that was why the game flagged it. Any creator knows that isn't how it works; the system relies on colors, shapes, composition, and other subjective visual elements—and sometimes it doesn't even let... ...creators using their own previously used thumbnails—plus, the whole thing would have been impossible given that he had me adapt Roblox concepts that didn't exist in Fortnite. I even provided all the PSD files, so I fulfilled the job requirements—and even went beyond what was required, doing things we hadn't originally agreed upon. As I’ve stated here, there is proof for everything, and it is all attached as evidence to resolve this matter. One thing has become clear to me since I posted my tweet yesterday—even though I didn't explicitly mention it at the time—is that there are other people who have gone through this same situation with him, and they can back me up on this.

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  ASUKA@新刊感想歓迎 (@kaijouisthebest) reported 13 minutes ago

  @JoyJones10491 Hi, sorry for late reply. I can provide PayPal payment link &send you directly , so it's no problem 🐱 Please send me a message when the book publish, thank you

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  ML (@Moxie25) reported 16 minutes ago

  @AnarchoDarling Same here. Had my ebay shop for years. Did very well before PayPal ca.e in. Shut down my auction last year. AI, and excessive fees are killing g side and small business.

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  Olibher Cafirma (@C37484Olibher) reported 19 minutes ago

  @ima_fly_tok @alexabelonix That's the bigger issue IMO. Switching from PayPal to another giant provider doesn't really remove the dependency, it just changes who you're dependent on. Having more than one payment route makes a lot more sense.

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  peachy.auras🇩🇿 (@CB_HYUN461) reported 20 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal Hello @AskPayPal, I am trying to link a valid prepaid Visa/Mastercard to my account, but the system keeps declining it despite having a sufficient balance and matching details. Is there a general restriction on prepaid cards, or how can I fix this?

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  Mukya 🪸☕️ 𝄆 HOUSE OBSCURUS 𝄇 (@MukyaVT) reported 22 minutes ago

  Okay, I need some advice.... I have been going in circles since Monday with Twitch Support and PayPal. - Twitch says the latest payout was received - PayPal Says it was not - Twitch asks me to check again - gives me reference+transaction ID's - PayPal still says there is nothing pending or in my account with those numbers - Twitch tells me payments cannot be reissued once it shows successful - Twitch says issue has to be sent via email for further 'investigation' - Email is LITERALLY a copy paste of the same info all 3 agents in their instant chat sent - I sent screen shots of all conversations to show Paypal CONFIRMS THERE IS NOTHING PENDING - Twitch now says I have to wait 30 days for the money to MAYBE be sent back to them so they can MAYBE reissue the payment ......im so tired.... $600 for bills just gone....and I might not ever see it

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  Scott S (@scottslabio) reported 22 minutes ago

  Deleting the commit does not remove the secret. *** keeps history. The blob is still reachable by hash, still in every clone and fork, likely in a mirror you have never heard of. Rotate the credential. A team that spends the first hour rewriting *** history instead of revoking the key has spent the hour the attacker needed. Public repos are scraped continuously. A committed cloud key is found and used in minutes, not days. Push protection blocks the credential before it leaves your machine, which beats detection after the fact. The supply chain side is worse. Event-stream 2018: maintainer handed the package over, new owner added code targeting a bitcoin wallet. No bug. The maintainer changed. Dependency confusion 2021: public packages matching internal names at higher versions, builds fetched the attacker's copy. Worked against Apple, Microsoft, PayPal. No vulnerability. Just resolution order. xz-utils 2024: multi-year effort to gain maintainer trust and reach sshd. Found by an engineer investigating a half second login slowdown. Dependency review cannot be a one time check. The package that was safe when you chose it can change hands afterwards. Wrote up the full breakdown of repo security, credential rotation, and three supply chain attacks that worked without exploiting a single bug.

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  CoFounders Nik (@CoFoundersNik) reported 24 minutes ago

  @iamjwmoss Stripe, PayPal, Freshbooks, Amazon and probably others i cant even remember. All of them had their issues but PayPal and Stripe were the worst. We ultimately switched to ACH

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  Jort van Meeteren (@jortvanmeeteren) reported 25 minutes ago

  @HeadspaceHelp Hi! I read that you’re having problems with Paypal in the EU at the moment, but I don’t have Visa, Mastercard or any of the other payment options. Are you planning to add iDeal/Wero or will I have to wait until the Paypal issue is resolved to be able to renew?

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  Olibher Cafirma (@C37484Olibher) reported 27 minutes ago

  @Sousinr @alexabelonix The fact that 180-day hold is recognizable enough to be called a PayPal classic is probably the problem makes having another payment route ready before anything happens feel a lot less optional.