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The following are the most recent problems reported by Paypal users through our website.

• Sign in (41%)
• Errors (37%)
• Website Down (22%)

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City	Problem Type	Report Time
Benfeld	Sign in	5 hours ago
Gérardmer	Sign in	1 day ago
Township of Evan	Sign in	2 days ago
Lodève	Errors	2 days ago
Brisbane	Sign in	3 days ago
Sydney	Sign in	4 days ago

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Paypal Issues Reports

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  Zapot (COMMS OPEN!!!)🫪 (@ZapotX) reported 26 seconds ago

  @AbsoluteMuffy @PayPal I wanted to ask you something, don't you issue invoices when you get paid?

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  Porter Pierce jr (@Porterpiercejr) reported 3 minutes ago

  @TonyClimate @eBay Only PayPal for those. Always solved my problems

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  Morpheu5 Stock Watcher (@Morpheu5Watcher) reported 7 minutes ago

  PAYPAL $PYPL: WE NAMED THE WRONG CATALYST AND THE STOCK ROSE 39% ANYWAY: PayPal $PYPL at $58.85 (after hours), -$0.22 / -0.37% from Monday's $59.07 close. On June 22 this account put the San Jose payments network on the Deep-Value and Special-Situations Len5 at roughly $42.51, near 8x earnings, and named its catalyst: the 2026 reorganization into three units, with a re-rate to 12-15x as the case. Monday's close sits +$16.56 / +38.9% above that quote. The re-rate arrived. The stated reason did not. Where the move came from: on July 15, privately held Stripe and private-equity firm Advent International made an unsolicited joint offer at $60.50 a share - more than $53B, backed by about $50B of committed bank financing. The stock went $47.37 to $55.52 in one session, +$8.15 / +17.2%. That one day is 49% of everything gained since June. The offer is still unsolicited and unaccepted: no formal response from PayPal, no signed merger agreement, no closing date. The thesis check, on the July 28 print for the June quarter. Total payment volume - the dollars moving through its systems - $486.4B, +10%; net revenue $8.68B, +5%. But transaction margin dollars, what PayPal keeps from each payment after the cost of moving it, rose 1% to $3.9B (+3% ex-interest on customer balances). GAAP EPS $1.25, -3% YoY; adjusted EPS - profit per share with some items stripped - $1.38 vs about $1.28 modeled, still -1% YoY. Volume grew ten times faster than the profit line the cheap-multiple argument rested on. The reorganization is real - announced April 29, live June 2 - and has not reached the profit line. So the multiple moved without the earnings: near 11x on roughly $5.38 of guided full-year adjusted EPS, up from ~8x in June and most of the way to the 12-15x that note wanted - delivered by a bidder. The tape carries the bid's shape too: $1.43 / 2.4% up to the offer, against $11.70 / 19.8% back to the $47.37 paid the day before the news. Len5 read, all six files opened this pass. Quality-Value carries PayPal, twenty-eighth on its ranked list - that style wants a durable franchise at a fair price, and 439M active accounts plus $6.0B of buybacks over twelve months is the durable half; a signed deal at $60.50 retires the question. The Deep-Value and Special-Situations file reads as of August 4 and does not carry it - an unsigned bid is an event you cannot underwrite; a definitive agreement with a close date changes that. Momentum, Growth, and Hypergrowth are no on one fact: mid-single-digit revenue with earnings down is neither a breakout nor growth at any price. Reaccelerating transaction margin moves it. Income is out on mechanics - no dividend, buyback only. One name rising says nothing about a way of reading the market - only about that name. The stock got its re-rate. The reorganization has not earned one, and only one of those two things can be taken back by a press release.

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  DI (@DI_3) reported 8 minutes ago

  @clerpatriot Women have G’zintas and Men have G’zoutas. Problem solved! Send cash, checks, or money orders direct to me. I also accept PayPal, Mastercard and Visa.

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  Michael Richey (@ComRicheyweb) reported 11 minutes ago

  @TonyClimate @eBay This happened to me in the early 2000s. I filed a report with paypal (part of ebay at that time) and they dismissed it because "the seller said he shipped it" even though he could not provide tracking. $649 Eventually he shut down his account after a series of complaints.

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  nothing to see here🇬🇧🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 (@antonello_web) reported 11 minutes ago

  @BleepinComputer Arghh! Again why companies are not careful! In Apr was PayPal, in June Facebook, yes it's terrible. Why this yanks are not careful with OUR data!

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  Akshay Kumar (@AkshayP06) reported 14 minutes ago

  I'm having trouble contacting you guys. I need a resolution regarding negative balance. My activity and balance aren't matching. @AskPayPal

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  ayu trades - spaylater, ggives, etc. (@ayutrades) reported 15 minutes ago

  open for transfer • not verify balance to verify (gcash, maya, shopee, lazada, grab, pricelocq, etc.) • gcash & maya with issue transfer balance (authentication failed, facescan, can’t send/open) • permanent limit paypal withdrawal (180 days)

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  tomoko☄️ (@tomoko194he) reported 25 minutes ago

  양도 태민 콘서트 selling at cost bc i'm moving down 😭💞 9/18 section 31 (center) 9/19 section 33 🍒 global ticket, meet at the venue :) 🍒 kr bank transfer or paypal ok any verification possible!!! will cancel if no one wants :)

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  samar (@samarsun4ever) reported 25 minutes ago

  is anyone looking for ariana grande eternal sunshine ticket on closing night. i’m so devastated i can’t go cause of work issues🫠 it’s section 105 i accept paypal g&s price is £400 (bought on resale

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  proxy for korea japan online & offline kpop anime (@wendyproxy) reported 28 minutes ago

  proxy 2026 CORTIS TOUR <PUT YOUR PHONE DOWN> BIRTHDAY PARTY POP-UP 📅 ~08/17 🛒proxy fee 5000 won ea 💳 wise and paypal only 📦domestic shipping and ww 📍korea offline #wendyproxy 양도 wts wtb

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  satoshi2024 (@vote4satoshi) reported 29 minutes ago

  @brian_armstrong The kyc killed most of the potential clients. Had no problem with stripe or PayPal, CB business is a pain in the ***. Gave up on multiple tries

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  🩷pinkchocowings💙 (@pinkchocowings) reported 29 minutes ago

  chose paypal but had issues as shipping was not added... when tried to pay again, it was sold out already at 10:02am 💔 @teamwangdesign_ please restock 🙏🏼

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  ayu trades - spaylater, ggives, etc. (@ayutrades) reported 32 minutes ago

  open for trades & transfer load to cash (regular & load card) paypal to cash binance to cash gcash to binance gcash to paypal paypal permanent limit withdraw balance (180 days needed) gcash & maya with issue transfer balance (facescan, authentication failed, can’t send or open)

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  Christina Lee (@_Rina__Lee) reported 33 minutes ago

  here's how to make your first sale without an audience, without a product, and without spending a dollar step 1: think of one problem you've solved for yourself in the last 12 months. lost weight. cleared skin. organized apartment. grew followers. learned to cook. fixed sleep. anything step 2: write the solution as a numbered list in your notes app. every step you took. every product you used. every mistake you made. every shortcut you found. raw. unedited. brain dump step 3: text 3 friends this message: "i'm putting together a guide on [topic]. would you pay $20 for the exact breakdown of how i did it with every step and product listed" if 2/3 say yes you have a validated product. if they say no ask "what would make it worth $20 to you" and adjust based on their answer step 4: clean up the brain dump. add links to products. add before/after if you have it. export as PDF. send it to the friends who said yes. collect payment through venmo, paypal, or cash app step 5: screenshot the transaction. screenshot their reaction when they read it. post both with "just sold my first digital product. if you want the guide DM me. $20" you just made your first sale. the number doesn't matter. the neural pathway you just created does. your brain now has proof that strangers will pay you for what you know. that proof rewires everything that comes after it

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  . (@DatMLBro) reported 34 minutes ago

  @Fosudo The issue isn’t just Nigeria’s reputation. India has its own fraud and financial crime problems, yet PayPal serves them. The difference is leverage: India can push back. Nigeria’s weak institutions often leave us begging for access instead of demanding fair treatment.

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  willowdontknow (@Xx1tzwillowduh_) reported 34 minutes ago

  Does anyone know alternative payment app for commission beside PayPal? I've see many people got trouble with their PayPal. I don't have any plan to open art commission I might be open for the future so please let me know!

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  proxy for korea japan online & offline kpop anime (@wendyproxy) reported 35 minutes ago

  proxy 2026 CORTIS TOUR <PUT YOUR PHONE DOWN> BIRTHDAY PARTY POP-UP 📅 ~08/17 🛒proxy fee 5000 won ea 💳 wise and paypal only 📦domestic shipping and ww 📍korea offline #wendyproxy 양도 wts wtb

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  Genius Business (@GeniusBusiness_) reported 36 minutes ago

  Jack Dorsey on why Square lends to businesses banks won't even look at: "We actually see their business." Asked what data justifies extending credit to a merchant a traditional bank would reject outright, Dorsey doesn't describe a better model. He describes a better position. "They use our register. They use our payments. They enter all their employees into our system. We see all their customers. We see their competition. We have a very deep understanding of how they're doing and who they are, and we don't make a judgment until we have a pretty strong understanding to make that risk assessment." A bank sees a business through the narrow aperture of a bank statement. Square sees the register, the payroll, the customer base, and the competition. The merchant runs the whole operation on Square's rails. Dorsey states the advantage plainly: "We've built our platform in such a way that we are the tool that's being used to run the entire business. So we have an advantage that others mostly do not." Outside data exists, but it's secondary: "Outside of our walls, we look at how sellers are engaging with Yelp or Facebook or Instagram or Twitter, or all these signals that people are sending around the world." And he immediately demotes it: "A lot of our assessment comes from our own understanding, our own data itself." The same instinct, own the surface where the activity actually happens shows up in Square Cash. "It's consistently broken into the top 20 free apps in the iOS App Store, which is a huge feat for a finance app. It's consistently been the number one above our competitors, Venmo and PayPal, over the past few months." Dorsey's explanation is that they refused to accept the category they were placed in: "We haven't seen it just as peer-to-peer. We've evolved past peer-to-peer and we've observed that people are using it as a spending device. And the more ability we add and the more capabilities we add to spend it in more places, the more adoption we see and the more retention we see." The sequencing was deliberate: "We started with the most critical thing, which is sending money between two people, and then we moved on to issuing a card that could be used online and offline." Sending money between two people is a feature. It is not, on its own, a business. The card is what converts a transfer utility into something people spend from and spending is where the surface widens. Square doesn't underwrite from a credit file, because it owns the register. Cash doesn't retain users through transfers, because it moved to own the spend. Worth noting what Dorsey doesn't say. Asked directly how Square makes money on peer-to-peer transfers, he answers with rankings, adoption, and retention never revenue. Read it as a tell either way: the monetisation is the card, or it hadn't been settled yet.

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  The Gerbil Horde (@Gerbil_Horde) reported 38 minutes ago

  @RickShielsPGA This is a problem when they’re passed off as genuine online. I got stung for fake P770s off EBay and have been fighting @PayPal for 4 months to get refunded. They’re very convincing fakes, just a few mil out here and there. #🐹

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  VC Intern (@the_vc_intern) reported 39 minutes ago

  PayPal paid approximately $4 billion for Honey in 2020. The browser extension had 17 million monthly users, worked across roughly 30,000 retailers and gave PayPal something it normally reached only at the end of a purchase: influence over what happened before checkout. That position created Honey’s value. Shoppers installed it for discounts, merchants supplied offers to reach those shoppers, and Honey earned money through affiliate attribution when a purchase occurred. Then MegaLag alleged that Honey sometimes replaced creators’ affiliate tracking with its own. PayPal said Honey followed industry practices including last-click attribution, but the explanation did little to stop the reaction. Honey has reportedly fallen from more than 20 million Chrome users to 12 million. Merchant relationships declined from roughly 35,000 to just over 28,000, while its coupon database fell from about 90,000 codes to 50,000. This is what happens when a marketplace flywheel reverses. Fewer users make the product less valuable to merchants. Fewer merchants mean fewer working offers. A weaker product gives the remaining users another reason to uninstall it. Affiliate networks added pressure. Rakuten removed Honey before later reinstating it with new protections, while Impact and Awin also took action. A creator lawsuit has survived PayPal’s attempt to dismiss it, although that is not a finding that PayPal is liable. PayPal bought Honey because it occupied a valuable point between product discovery and payment. The same position became dangerous once shoppers and creators began questioning whose interests the extension served. A $4 billion distribution advantage turned into a trust problem sitting inside 12 million browsers.

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  Þunchii (@Tunechii33) reported 41 minutes ago

  I am $24,000 in debt at 18 years old and I need help. This isn’t any gimmick, i’ve made some big poor choices at a young age and I have and am still learning through but the monetary number itself is a mountain for me to get rid of in my current situation as i’m heading into college with this on my shoulders. I already know I need to work my *** off and this is my own problem that will take a long time, but truthfully this **** is hard. Im putting this out there for anyone who has the ability/want, to help me out a little no matter what the ammount is, aswell as if you want it returned to you, we can connect and talk about a casual repayment plan. Cashapp: $Sstonuttt For zelle,venmo, paypal, crpyto, or any other option dm me please

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  Bruce in Iloilo (@BruceinIloilo) reported 43 minutes ago

  PayPal is such a pain. So many hoops. High charges. Every time I went to use it, there was some issue or glitch or something didn't work right. And now they closed my account because I did not respond to some scam. PayPal sucks

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  𝐇𝐚𝐦𝐳𝐚 | Networking Guy (@Hamzaonchain) reported 45 minutes ago

  In 2012, Honey launched as a browser extension that promised to find coupon codes automatically and save you money while shopping online. It blew up. Millions of people installed it. Thousands of merchants partnered with it. Some of the biggest YouTubers on the internet promoted it. Then MegaLag started digging. What he found made Honey look very different from the innocent coupon extension everyone thought they were using. Honey could allegedly replace a creator's affiliate cookie at checkout, taking the commission for itself even when that creator had originally sent the customer to the store. And sometimes, Honey didn't even have to find you a better deal. MegaLag also found evidence that Honey's “best coupon” system wasn't necessarily searching the entire internet for the best price. Merchants could control which discounts Honey showed. Then things got worse. His later investigations uncovered Honey's alleged use of “stand-down” workarounds, allowing it to continue receiving affiliate attribution despite agreements telling it not to overwrite another affiliate's referral. By 2026, this wasn't just a YouTube controversy anymore. Affiliate networks started cutting ties with Honey, and the extension had lost more than 7 million Chrome users and thousands of merchant relationships. Then came the lawsuit. PayPal tried to get the case dismissed. It didn't work. On June 22, 2026, a federal judge denied PayPal's motion to dismiss the amended lawsuit, allowing the claims to move forward. And that's why I call Honey a scam. Not because it sometimes failed to find a coupon. But because something marketed as a tool for saving you money allegedly became very good at making money from the transaction itself. Honey wasn't looking for the best deal. It was looking for its cut.

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  Crisbuca (@Crisbuca) reported 50 minutes ago

  @CoachNassimm @coachmaxenfn I mean maybe give him time to fix paypal and then resolve problem u didn’t even try understand that his paypal wasn’t working

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  keyed (@eternalsoulrape) reported 51 minutes ago

  @re10sevv @driveintopole I didn't do anything to you please I'm sorry just take it down I'll PayPal u

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  ayu trades - spaylater, ggives, etc. (@ayutrades) reported 51 minutes ago

  open for transfer • not verify ewallet/bank balance transfer to verify (gcash, maya, grab pay, shopee, lazada) • gcash/maya with issue transfer balance (face recognition, authentication failed, can’t send/open) • paypal permanent limited withdrawal (need lagpas 180 days)

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  Arez (@MageArez) reported 55 minutes ago

  @JermainePercins @stripe @PayPal The cause of this was when I was doing about $500,000 revenue monthly I ran into horrible supply manufacture issues that caused my dispute rate to spike to 5%+ for an extended time.

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  Hanuska (@Hannuska2109) reported 58 minutes ago

  PART 5 — CREDIBILITY ENDORSEMENT Credibility endorsement happens when the reputation or authority of one person, organization or group is allowed to strengthen the credibility of somebody else — without necessarily verifying the thing for which that credibility is being used. It does not require dishonesty. It can happen entirely in good faith. And in an online fundraising community built heavily upon personal recommendations, it can happen remarkably easily. __________________________________________________ WHO DECIDES WHO IS CREDIBLE? Spend enough time in the pro-Ukraine fundraising world on X and you begin to recognize the signals. Trusted fundraiser. Scambuster. Investigator. Vetted. Verified. Then come the associations. Known fundraisers. Military units. Soldiers. Commanders. Charities. Established organisations. Prominent accounts. Each association can add another layer of reassurance. And eventually a perfectly reasonable human shortcut develops: ---------------------------------------------------------- “PEOPLE I TRUST TRUST THIS PERSON.” There is nothing irrational about that. None of us can independently investigate everybody we encounter. The danger comes when: “People I trust this person” quietly becomes: “THIS PERSON HAS BEEN VERIFIED.” Those are not the same thing. TOONIE TUESDAY Consider Lorelei. Toonie Tuesday publicly promoted a fundraiser involving Lorelei and described her as: “THE ULTIMATE SCAMBUSTER.” That is useful contemporaneous evidence of how Lorelei was being presented to the community. An established fundraising initiative wasn't merely interacting with her. It was publicly attaching a description to her: Scambuster. That word carries an implication. A scambuster identifies scams. A scambuster investigates questionable people. A scambuster is somebody whose judgement about potential fraud should presumably carry weight. But it isn't a professional qualification. There is no examination required to become a Twitter scambuster. No licence. No regulatory body. No published evidential standard somebody must satisfy before adopting the description. Yet when an established fundraising initiative publicly describes somebody as “the ultimate scambuster,” its own reputation inevitably adds weight to that description. -------------------------------------------------------- CREDIBILITY HAS BEEN TRANSFERRED. That doesn't mean Toonie Tuesday did anything improper. It demonstrates the mechanism. -------------------------------------------------------- ANDREW PERPETUA @AndrewPerpetua Andrew Perpetua provides an even clearer example — because he has publicly described how the same mechanism operated around Dmytro. According to Andrew, he was initially: “HIGHLY SUS” of Dmytro. That matters. Andrew wasn't describing blind trust. He had doubts. So he did what most reasonable people would consider sensible: He asked people he trusted. According to Andrew, he asked numerous people in the Ukrainian military about Dmytro. And: “SEVERAL VERY ENTHUSIASTICALLY SAID HE WAS LEGIT.” So Andrew supported him. Then the allegations exploded. And Andrew was angry. Not merely because of what was being alleged about Dmytro. He was angry at people who, in his view, subsequently behaved as though Dmytro's problems had always been obvious. His earlier post makes that frustration unmistakable: “If you thought he was a fraud, you should have said so.” That presents us with an extraordinarily important question. WHAT WAS ANDREW SUPPOSED TO BELIEVE? He had doubts & checked. People he considered credible vouched for Dmytro. He adjusted his opinion accordingly. The weakness wasn't necessarily Andrew's judgement. The weakness was the verification mechanism itself. Because Andrew had not established: “Dmytro's fundraising has been independently financially verified.” What he had actually established was: “PEOPLE I TRUST SAY DMYTRO IS LEGIT.” Again: Those are not the same thing. WHO VERIFIED THE VERIFIERS? Suppose a Ukrainian soldier tells Andrew: “Dmytro is legitimate. He helped my unit.” The soldier may be telling the absolute truth. Perhaps Dmytro delivered a vehicle. Perhaps he delivered equipment. Perhaps he personally risked his life doing it. That establishes something meaningful. But did that soldier examine Dmytro's PayPal records? Did they reconcile donations against purchases? Did they establish where every vehicle originated? Did they determine whether an asset was donated before money was subsequently raised for it? Probably not. So the soldier can be completely honest. Andrew can be completely reasonable in relying upon them. Dmytro can genuinely have helped that soldier. And yet the financial question can remain completely unanswered. Nobody necessarily lied. THE CREDIBILITY SIMPLY TRAVELLED FURTHER THAN THE EVIDENCE. ---------------------------------------------------- THIS IS WHY HINDSIGHT MATTERS Once allegations become widely accepted, reputation can change astonishingly quickly. People who were once publicly trusted become people whom: “Everybody knew” couldn't be trusted. People who once vouched for somebody remember their doubts more clearly than their endorsements. Old warnings are rediscovered. Old associations become uncomfortable. And eventually history can begin to look much cleaner than it actually was. That is why contemporary posts matter. They tell us what people were saying before everyone knew what they now say everybody knew. Andrew's posts matter for precisely that reason. They preserve the uncomfortable middle: “I WAS SUSPICIOUS. I ASKED. PEOPLE VOUCHED FOR HIM. I BELIEVED THEM.” That is far more informative than hindsight. -------------------------------------------------------- DANIEL ASHER Another voice from within the broader community expressed the underlying problem remarkably well: “THAT'S THE WRONG DEFAULT SETTING FOR A COMMUNITY THAT OUGHT TO ACT ON EVIDENCE IT HAS.” That sentence takes us beyond Dmytro, Lorelei, Andrew or Toonie Tuesday. Because ultimately this isn't simply a problem with individuals. IT IS A SYSTEM PROBLEM. A community raising significant amounts of humanitarian money inevitably requires trust. But trust cannot become its verification system. Reputation is not verification. Association is not verification. Endorsement is not verification. And neither is a title somebody has acquired within an online community. --------------------------------------------------------- REPUTATION SHOULD TELL US WHERE TO START — NOT WHERE TO STOP A fundraiser with years of successful deliveries deserves to have that history considered. A volunteer trusted by soldiers deserves to have that considered. An organisation with a strong track record deserves to have that considered. But when somebody asks a specific factual question: How much was raised? What was purchased? What did it cost? Who paid for it? Where did it come from? Who received it? the answer cannot be: “LOOK WHO TRUSTS ME.” That answers a different question. And this is why credibility washing matters. Because the people lending their credibility may be completely honest. The person receiving that credibility may have genuinely earned much of their reputation. The association itself may be completely legitimate. The mistake happens when that credibility is allowed to prove something it never actually verified. So perhaps we have been asking the wrong question. Not: “WHO DO WE TRUST?” but: “WHAT CAN WE VERIFY?” That standard applies to Dmytro, Lorelei, people investigating and it applies to us. --------------------------------------------------------- Trust should make verification easier. It should never make verification unnecessary. ---------------------------------------------------------

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  Andre Compounds (@andrecompounds) reported 58 minutes ago

  I had to pay a business today that did not accept BTC, had never even heard of ETH or XRP, and required payment by PayPal. I spent over 500 dollars on fees. What a broken and archaic system. Future generations will laugh at how inefficient we were… we are so early, even earlier than I thought.