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• Sign in (42%)
• Errors (36%)
• Website Down (22%)

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City	Problem Type	Report Time
Boulogne-Billancourt	Errors	8 hours ago
Cublize	Website Down	10 hours ago
Rieux	Sign in	12 hours ago
Abscon	Errors	18 hours ago
Rouen	Errors	2 days ago
Melbourne	Errors	2 days ago

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  Priye Ruby Johnson (@PriyerubyJ) reported 5 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal Hello @AskPayPal. My PayPal account was recently permanently limited because it was reportedly linked to another account with unresolved issues. I believe this may relate to an old account I created years ago but never really used.

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  Marsu (@marsuplamy) reported 5 minutes ago

  The Agentic Economy 2024 was the year of LLMs. ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and models like them responded to prompts and that was enough. But 2025 brought something different. Models were no longer just responding, they were planning, calling tools, executing code, coordinating with other systems, and doing all of this without constant human oversight. This transition transformed AI from something you query into something you delegate to. This is called agentic AI and with it an entirely new economy began to take shape. To understand the scale of this economy a few numbers are worth looking at. The AI agents market is expected to grow from 7.84 billion dollars in 2025 to 52.62 billion dollars by 2030, at a compound annual growth rate of 46.3%. McKinsey projects that agentic commerce could orchestrate between 3 and 5 trillion dollars in global revenue by 2030. These numbers are not theoretical, the infrastructure is already being built. In just the six month period between April and September 2025, Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, Stripe and Google all launched agentic payment infrastructures. So what are these agents actually doing? They are purchasing services on your behalf, paying other agents, accessing APIs, buying data, and doing all of this while making decisions in fractions of a second. Stablecoin transaction volume reached 33 trillion dollars in 2025, up 72% year over year, with supply surpassing 300 billion dollars. Agentic payments and machine to machine payment flows are cited as one of the key drivers behind this growth. Stablecoins like USDT and USDC are critical for agents because they allow programmable payments without price volatility. But legacy payment infrastructure was never designed for this world. Credit cards require human authentication, subscriptions demand upfront commitments, and API keys depend on manual onboarding processes. All of these systems were built for humans. When millions of agents are making countless payments per second none of these systems work technically or economically. x402 and the Awakening of HTTP 402 When web standards were being written in 1991 HTTP status code 402 was added and defined as 'Payment Required'. That day it was reserved, set aside for future use. This code waited more than thirty years and when its future arrived it turned out not to be human. The x402 standard activated this dormant code as a native payment layer for the internet: a server responds to a request with 402 and a price, the client pays on-chain in stablecoins, retries the request with proof of payment and receives the service. No account creation, no card on file, no subscription, no human. The protocol was launched in September 2025 by Coinbase and Cloudflare through the x402 Foundation. The coalition behind it is unusually broad, Google, Visa, AWS, Circle, Anthropic and Vercel are all core foundation members. Within five months of launch x402 had processed over 100 million transactions. In a single week in October 2025 the protocol handled approximately 500,000 payments, a 10,780% increase from the prior month. The technical side of x402 is very clean. For a developer integration is a single line of middleware, set a price per endpoint, point to a facilitator, and the API can charge per request in stablecoins. When an agent wants to access a service payment happens automatically inside the HTTP request, settlement completes within the round-trip. Zero human intervention. The Problem: Public Rails Don't Work for the Agentic Economy Now we come to the critical question. When millions of agents make transactions and every one of those transactions is visible on a public blockchain, what happens? Which APIs the agent uses, which data it accesses, which services it purchases, how much it pays, who it works with, all of it becomes completely visible. This is not just a user privacy problem, it means the strategy and logic the agent operates on is open to competitors. Is a company's agent feeding from the same data source as a rival's agent? How much is it spending on which compute services? How are supply chain decisions being made? All of this becomes readable on a public chain. On top of that there is the gas fee problem. On Ethereum and Tron fees shift constantly with network congestion. If an agent is making hundreds of microtransactions per second modeling your unit economics becomes impossible because you have no idea what costs will be in advance. For the agentic economy to work payment rails must be both private and predictably priced. Why Bitcoin is the Neutral Rail There are several clear answers to why Bitcoin stands out as the ideal settlement layer in this equation. First, censorship resistance. No central actor can stop, censor or restrict agent payments. For agents to operate autonomously the payment infrastructure must also be autonomous and uncensorable. Second, deterministic finality. Bitcoin's proof-of-work security is the most battle-tested and proven consensus mechanism in existence. For agent payments settlement must be definitive and irreversible. Third, global liquidity. Bitcoin is accessible everywhere in the world with no geographic restrictions and agents operate without borders. Fourth, the UTXO model. Unlike Ethereum's account-based model Bitcoin's UTXO structure allows non-conflicting transactions to be validated in parallel, a natural advantage for high-frequency agent payments. Where @Utexocom Fits The layer that combines Bitcoin's advantages with USDT and makes it production-ready for the agentic economy is Utexo. The RGB protocol issues and transfers USDT as a native asset on Bitcoin's own layer. Transfer details never get written to a public ledger thanks to client-side validation, only cryptographic commitments are anchored to Bitcoin UTXOs. So when an agent makes a payment who sent what to whom never leaks outward. The Lightning Network allows these assets to settle in milliseconds, at around 200ms latency. Utexo handles channel management, liquidity and routing entirely internally, with fees fixed and predefined at the protocol level. For the agentic economy this combination means the following. The agent pays in sub-second time, costs are predictable, payment details are private, and Bitcoin's finality provides the settlement guarantee. With the Mint component USDT from Ethereum, Tron or Solana can be moved onto Bitcoin rails. With the Swap component non-custodial exchange between BTC and USDT is possible. And the SDK reduces all of this complexity to a single API call, meaning a developer integrating agent payments never has to run a Lightning node or manage RGB infrastructure. Tether not only supporting this infrastructure but leading the seed round themselves, and preparing to issue USDT natively on Bitcoin through RGB protocol v0.11.1, answers the question of which rails the agentic economy will be built on. Machines are making payments now. Those payments need to be private, predictably priced, and anchored to Bitcoin. The infrastructure is here.

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  Danny Naz (@ThePupOfWallSt) reported 6 minutes ago

  @cperruna Another trash stock to down. The split made this untradable and unownable. The NEW PayPal LOL

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  PooPants69 (@Pants69Poo80670) reported 6 minutes ago

  @pokemondealsuk So Argos took payment but said they cancelled the order. Now when I try enter my bank details to order it just says theyre having trouble with debit/credit cards and Paypal. Do you think my order might have gone through and its stopping me buying multiple?

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  Compound248 💰 (@compound248) reported 8 minutes ago

  $PYPL - here is what will actually happen. In a very real sense, it is out management's hands: • PayPal Board receives credible unsolicited offer (from Stripe and Advent); Revlon duty kicks in. • Board immediately engages counsel and investment bank. • Board forms a committee to oversee the situation. • Committee has the i-bank suggest who else could bid. • Mid-process, someone strategically leaks the Stripe bid. This creates a new dynamic: given no large $PYPL anchor owner, the shareholder base quickly begins turning over from "long-term owners" to "event-driven / arb." Those new shareholders aren't looking for a long-term compounder, further pressuring the company to seek a takeout path. • Management and an i-bank work up the "stay independent" plan. Unfortunately, the comps are horrible ($FISV & $GPN), making 3rd-party bids hard to beat, even if you prefer to execute independently. • Conduct an initial IOI process to see if alternative bidders might come in higher than $60.50. They will. • Depending on what comes back, may expand outreach to additional bidder groups. Data room and diligence process become formalized. • Offer is going up from $60.50 to $65, then $68 (or whatever). Stripe probably competes in that range. • Board cannot justify the "stay independent" path. • Bank and committee whittle the bidder group down to a small set of finalists. • Seek "best and final" (sometimes more than once!). • Announce a deal anywhere from $60.50 to $70+. • Game over. I'm not saying that PayPal cannot stay independent and public; it could. I am saying it likely won't stay independent and public. If you don't have an anchor owner who can stand up to the dual forces of Revlon + Event-Driven shareholders, the momentum of the "process" takes over and makes it very difficult to say no to a credible offer at a premium. The die is already cast.

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  Crypto Ponii (@crypto_ponii) reported 10 minutes ago

  Saturday morning. Coffee in hand. ☕ Most people open X to check prices. I open it to find opportunity. Big difference. 👀 The market is down 17% from May highs. But ETH up 20% in July. Japan just legalized crypto. Stripe is buying PayPal. The story hasn’t changed. Only the price has. 💎 What are YOU focused on this weekend? 👇

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  LogiBob (COMMS CLOSED) (@LogeeBob) reported 13 minutes ago

  comms are temporarily unpublished until i can figure out a better form of payment! having some trouble with paypal at the moment i'll continue to work on any comms that have been bought/requested already, but any new ones wont be accepted at the moment

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  Ami-lazar VTuber {FORMER VA} (@Ami_LazarVA) reported 17 minutes ago

  ? fix this.okay i wanted to give send my manager (had to make a new account) money on paypal but even though hes in brazil and still cant after waiting 2 days and needed to used a credit card instead of adding a debit and gets his support request taken down really @PayPal fix it

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  LuckyTheLynx (@LuckyTheLynxAD) reported 20 minutes ago

  @lycan2216 Was taken down due to Paypal threats twords jinxy

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  Rhi (@rhirhiarhii) reported 21 minutes ago

  Carers ordered scripts I didn’t need that cost $168 And if just forked out for a compounded medication **** my ******* life If anyone can support my give a little is down because it’s been a year it automatically expires but I do have the paypal link in bio

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  Equity Ledger (@equityledger) reported 22 minutes ago

  $PYPL The Half of PayPal the Market Was Pricing On July 15 Stripe and the investment firm Advent International offered about $53 billion for PayPal, $60.50 a share at a 28 percent premium, with PayPal's board due to meet on July 20 (CNBC). The market had spent two years pricing PayPal as a fading checkout brand. The bid is a sign it was valuing the wrong half of the company. The bearish case is about flow, the checkout button losing ground at the point of sale to Apple Pay, to Shopify, to a dozen others. That decline is real, and it is what the multiple reflects. What it leaves out is the stock of accounts sitting behind the button. PayPal holds more than 400 million funded consumer accounts, Venmo included, and a funded account is not just a logo, it is a stored balance with a linked funding source and a verified identity. This is what makes the bid make sense. The whole industry is moving toward agent commerce, where software does the buying, and an agent cannot spend from nothing. It needs a funded account to draw on, permission to spend it, and an identity behind it. Stripe owns the merchant side of payments and has very few consumer wallets of its own. PayPal is the largest pool of pre-funded consumer accounts outside the banks. A company that owns the merchant rails is not paying a premium and borrowing $50 billion for a checkout button, it is buying the thing it cannot build on its own, a base of accounts that are already funded and ready for an agent to spend from. A 28 percent premium on a company the market had written down as a runoff is the buyer saying, in effect, that the base of accounts is worth more than the flow everyone was tracking. The mispricing, as I read it, is that the market valued the half of PayPal that is shrinking and gave away the half that is scarce. This is a bid and not yet a deal, so the tells are close at hand. Whether the board engages after July 20 or holds out for more will say whether the base is worth what the bidder thinks. A rival suitor would be the market admitting the asset is rare. And the final terms, if there are any, will show who controls the combined accounts and rails, because that, rather than the app, is what an agent economy has to run through.

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  🗡️COPAN🔱@🇯🇵🇺🇦⭐️🇺🇦🇲🇩🇹🇼🇳🇷🇬🇱🤘 (@nankaufufucopan) reported 24 minutes ago

  @unnuovoinizio1 I am interested in the two magnets featuring your Fella dog and the alcohol. However, I encounter an error when trying to send payment via PayPal from Japan to an overseas location. This appears to be an issue originating in Japan.

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  bosskiller196723 (@Bosskiller1967) reported 24 minutes ago

  @StubHubUK I need help with a payout issue. StubHub International keeps saying my PayPal payment was rejected, but PayPal has confirmed my account is in good standing and can receive payments. Can someone from your Settlements team please look into my case and DM me? #StubHub

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  💀 InstantKitty | Punk Leppy 💀🔪💜 (@instantkittyttv) reported 25 minutes ago

  @PineBaby_vt WHAT? @AskPayPal @PayPal NOT COOL. Help my wife fix ASAP

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  nomad (@LudisCharta) reported 26 minutes ago

  @ComicDaveSmith who cares man I knew this administration was cooked when I still can’t use ebay or PayPal because I didn’t get vaccinated there’s no real push to make anyone right who was wronged It’s just you vs the world and it’s always that way can’t control these ******* in power and they have sold us out a very long time ago and they don’t know what to do to actually fix it is more and more people become sicker each day from the food and culture

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  Chukx (@chukx_DRext) reported 28 minutes ago

  @RaenestApp Use the time to fix and build your platform to be trustworthy and reliable. You’re moving like PayPal.

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  OutsidetheL7™️ (@OutsidetheL7) reported 30 minutes ago

  @JaySekulow Please fix your donation system. Either use Apple Pay or allow auto fill for credit cards. It’s frustrating. No one is going to go track down their credit card and I definitely don’t use PayPal.

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  BitcoinSafari /Education & Developers Program (@BitcoinSafariTZ) reported 41 minutes ago

  Earning Bitcoin Through Freelance Work: Why It Matters And Why Platforms Like Bitlance Are Building The Future Of Work The internet promised us borderless work. For a long time it only delivered half the promise. You could find a client in Berlin, Lagos, or Buenos Aires from your laptop in Dar es Salaam,Tanzania 🇹🇿. But when it came time to get paid, borders came back with a vengeance. Bank wires that take 5 days. PayPal accounts that get frozen. 8% platform fees. Currency conversion losses. Minimum withdrawal thresholds that make small gigs pointless. That is why earning Bitcoin through freelance work matters. And it is why platforms built specifically for it, like Bitlance, are not just another crypto app. They are infrastructure. Here is the full picture briefly 1. Freelance work has already won, but the payment rails lost In 2026, over 40% of the global workforce does some form of freelance, contract, or gig work. Companies stopped hiring for every role full time. Creators, designers, developers, writers, marketers, editors, translators, data annotators... everyone is unbundling their skills and selling them directly. The problem is that the money still moves like it is 1998. If you are a freelancer outside the US and EU, you know the friction: High fees: Upwork takes 10%. PayPal takes 4% plus a currency spread. Wise is better but still 1-3%. For a $200 job, you can easily lose $20-$30 before the money lands. Slow settlement: 2-7 business days is normal. If your rent is due Friday, that is a problem. Account risk: Platforms ban accounts with little explanation. Payment processors freeze funds for "review" for 180 days. Currency volatility: If you invoice in USD but your local currency drops 10% this month, your purchasing power evaporates. Access barriers: Millions of skilled people cannot even get a PayPal account, or cannot receive international wires without a US bank. So we have this weird situation. The work is global and instant. The payment is local, slow, and expensive. 2. Why Bitcoin specifically, not just "crypto" People hear "crypto" and think of trading and memes. For freelancers, Bitcoin solves three very concrete problems that no other payment method solves well together. A. It is borderless by design A Bitcoin payment does not care what country you are in. It does not need a correspondent bank. It does not need you to have a US LLC. If you have an internet connection and a wallet, you can receive value from anyone, anywhere. For a freelancer in Tanzania, Nigeria, Pakistan, Venezuela, or rural Philippines, that is the difference between being able to work globally or not. B. It is final and censorship-resistant Once a Bitcoin transaction confirms, it cannot be reversed. No chargebacks. No platform can freeze your balance because of an automated risk flag. No government can block a payment because it is "unauthorized". For freelancers who have had $1,200 disappear for 6 months during a dispute, finality matters. C. It is programmable savings Getting paid in Bitcoin is not just about spending. It is about opting out of local inflation. In many economies, holding local currency for 30 days means losing 2-5% of value. Bitcoin is volatile week to week, but over 4year cycles it has been the best performing asset for preserving and growing purchasing power. When you get paid in BTC, you are getting paid and saving at the same time. Other stablecoins solve the volatility problem, and that is useful too. But Bitcoin solves the sovereignty problem. You do not need permission from a bank, a platform, or a government to hold it. 3. The freelance + Bitcoin combination creates new economic behavior When you put these two together, things change in ways that are not obvious at first.

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  Aya (@Aya_Research) reported 41 minutes ago

  US indices all closed green last night, but same as ever, the calm tape hid a split market. the hottest name was PayPal: a reported ~$53B takeover bid from Stripe + Advent ($60.50/share) sent it +17% on record volume. the twist everyone's pointing at: "the real prize is Venmo." the coldest corner was AI hardware. Dell led down -9.8% (touched -14% intraday), and SanDisk, Micron, HPE, Supermicro and AAOI (-13%) all got dumped with it. but the selling stayed concentrated in high-beta AI hardware, and mega-caps like Apple and Google masked it, so the Nasdaq still closed green. and the extreme end: Lucid ripped +29% after denying a report it was weighing going private or Chapter 11. Hong Kong ran hot too, Hang Seng +1.4%, Tencent +3.9%, Meituan +5.3%. bottom line: the index looks calm, but underneath the money's swapping seats fast, some chasing buyout targets, some fleeing AI hardware, some betting on a distressed bounce.

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  Uche (@WIZEINTHEBEAT) reported 43 minutes ago

  Elon Musk Bullied kid, Reader,Born 1971 in South Africa. Got bullied badly in school, once hospitalized. His escape? Books. He’d read 10+ hours daily - encyclopedias, sci-fi, rocket manuals. Rejected 3 times,At 28 he started PayPal. Sold it for $180M. Then he tried getting a job at Google. They said no. He used the money to fund 3 crazy ideas everyone laughed at. All-in on “impossible”*: 2008 was his worst year. SpaceX rockets failed 3 times. Tesla was weeks from bankruptcy. He split his last cash between both companies. If both failed, he’d be broke. Both survived. People called him “delusional”. But he bets on problems that matter: electric cars, space, AI. His rule: “When something is important enough, you do it even if odds aren’t favorable.” From getting punched in school to building rockets that land themselves.

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  Drocer (@DrocerG) reported 44 minutes ago

  I Fix the Vgen problem, Paypal was messing it up, But its working now! <3

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  Fail To Reject (@JonMarshallNV) reported 44 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal I've never had a worse CSR experience with any company in my life, than I had with PayPal this week. And my issue is still not resolved, so I will have to muster up enough humanity to deal again with people who are not motivated to help me solve my problem.

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  Hera (@Heralya1) reported 47 minutes ago

  @zaahenyaoihands Yeah my country has the same problem, Im able to bypass that cause I have a foreign credit card .. Though I once used VPN on paypal and it worked..I have no clue how 😭😭

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  Podcast Alpha (@PodcastAlphaX) reported 49 minutes ago

  Chamath @chamath: the Stripe-PayPal bid is a shot across the bow for $V and $MA. That is the line that matters. The ~$60-per-share offer for PayPal is not really about PayPal. It is an attack on the card duopoly the market treats as untouchable. Here is the build. Stripe, Block ($XYZ), and Advent combine PayPal's 400-million-plus accounts with Stripe's roughly $2 trillion in payment volume and its risk and stablecoin stack. Sacks @DavidSacks sharpens the point: that scale enables far more **"on-us" transactions**, payments that settle inside the combined network and bypass Visa and Mastercard entirely. Every on-us transaction is interchange the networks never collect. The antitrust question turns on definition - call it merchant APIs and it is Stripe versus Braintree, blocked. Call it the card duopoly and it is pro-competitive. The consensus this cuts against: Visa and Mastercard trade as forever-compounders with an unbreakable toll on every swipe. Bill Gurley @bgurley made the same argument we heard here in June, that Visa's moat is "unjustified" and priced as if it can never be disrupted. This deal is the first credible disruption vector, not a PowerPoint. Implication: this is a slow-burn short-bias thesis on $V and $MA interchange, not a same-week trade. The networks do not lose volume tomorrow. But a vertically integrated rail with 600-to-700 million combined accounts changes the terminal-value story the multiple rests on. If you are long the networks for the moat, the moat just got a named challenger with $2T of volume behind it. Watch the deal's market-definition fight - that ruling decides whether the on-us threat is real or blocked at the starting line.

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  nav || vgen commission !! (@whackatoaster) reported 50 minutes ago

  counting down days until september so paypal can unban my account and give me back my money..

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  Mike Ganian (@MikeGanian) reported 51 minutes ago

  Overall, Qualitate’s panel backs Stripe’s strategic logic for the acquisition. Stripe already wins in the infrastructure layer, and $53B buys the checkout preference & consumer recognition that it hasn't been able to replicate (though it will also have to inherit the consumer/merchant upgrade issues that have been holding PayPal back). PayPal's board response is expected ~July 20th.

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  Magic Beans 🐿️ (@DeanJC420) reported 51 minutes ago

  @rob_sweeten I will ask kathy to hit up your paypal later when she gets up. I can't leave you like this. I know what its like. At least if you have some ****, it will help with the pain that keeps landing you in ER and help you forget all this bullshit. I had a terrible week in stocks or I would have already. But your my brother and I wont leave you to suffer like this.

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  evil ******* buck buckley 🃏🦂🐞 nw: crim minds (@buckspnatural) reported 52 minutes ago

  btw I hate calling people and I've been on call for 12 minutes with paypal to fix my account just so I can get a holland march and kay plushie my dedication to this is admirable and concerning

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  vic ⎊⧗ᱬ✵४‎✪ (@frostironat) reported 56 minutes ago

  @AlmendriWW i thought i wouldn't be able to do it because i had trouble adding my card to paypal but i finally managed to do it after 2 hours of trying 😭😭

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  robert peachey (@RPeachey86) reported 1 hour ago

  @ddash_ca @compound248 PayPal has already turned it down and stock is at 56.40