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You mean the payment system that revolutionized online transactions between individuals and small companies? Remember how hard it was to pay a freelancer/indiv
by jotm 13y ago
You mean the payment system that revolutionized online transactions between individuals and small companies?
Remember how hard it was to pay a freelancer/individual/small company for a service or product online before Paypal?
It was very hard since banks would not approve merchant accounts for every bum that walked into their office :-), and don't even start on international transactions.
The fact that people started abusing them in unimaginable ways (prompting the draconian security measures) is not exactly Musk's fault, and the frozen account issues of the past years might be over once the competition finally gets its shit together (or at least there's other options now)...