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Re: PayPal to support Ethereum and Bitcoin

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Post by shim__ »

ilaksh wrote: post #331
joahnn_s wrote: post #215

The whole purpose of crypto is to exchange money online like we exchange cash in person, so who wants PayPal as a middleman on a tech designed not to have a middleman? Who will use that

Absolutely. Cryptocurrency should make payment middlemen obsolete. PayPal should get laughed out of the building here. It's incredible that this has any legs at all. This thread should be full of the names of Ethereum wallets. MetaMask, Trezor, MEW, Status

You might still want an mediator, sure I can pay you directly on chain but what if you don't even ship my goods? I'm not going to court over an 5$ item but I don't mind engaging PayPal support.

Re: PayPal to support Ethereum and Bitcoin

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Post by devoutsalsa »

e40 wrote: post #337
kragen wrote: post #294

Is this a legitimate alternative domain name for PayPal, or is it a parody or phishing site? It's not paypal.com. Apparently it's legit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45250319

It’s so dumb because they are training everyone to be phished by scammers.

I was learning about cold email marketing earlier this year, and it's all about learning to be a spammer:

- Registering lots of domains (launchmyapp.com, trymyapp.com, myapp.info, gomyapp.biz, etc.)

- setting up a limited number of mailboxes per domain

- warming email accounts up for 2 weeks by signing up for a service that sends to and receive messages from your accounts

- setting up a meta inbox to track messages sent and received across all of your accounts

Now pretty much every domain that isn't myapp.com looks like a spammer's domain to me.

Re: PayPal to support Ethereum and Bitcoin

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Post by shim__ »

croes wrote: post #125
martin_a wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is that an issue if you don't plan to "store" money in PayPal but only use it for payments?

The question is if a EU bank has to provide deposit insurance but PayPal does not how can PayPal be a bank.

PayPal might be a bank but maybe PayPal accounts aren't bank accounts

Re: PayPal to support Ethereum and Bitcoin

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Post by jeroenhd »

progval wrote: post #347
vbezhenar wrote: post #345

Earlier quoted context omitted.

With subdomains, you might leak cookies accidentally or maliciously to the root domain. They are not as separated as real domains are.

Then don't put anything on the root domain and use www.paypal.com for the main operations. corp.paypal.com's cookies are separated from www.paypal.com's.

But paypal.com's cookies are shared with corp.paypal.com and, depending on headers and fields, possibly vice versa.

My browser lists 8 .paypal.com cookies and 2 www.paypal.com cookies when I visit www.paypal.com. Those cookies are shared with https://fastlane.paypal.com/ (some random subdomain I found online).

They can separate those cookies out, of course, but they don't need to if they use separate domains and the cheapest work is work that doesn't need doing.

They also seem to own paypal.ai which mcp.paypal.com redirects to the docs of it could also just be a branding thing.

Re: PayPal to support Ethereum and Bitcoin

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Post by HWR_14 »

devoutsalsa wrote: post #362
e40 wrote: post #337

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s so dumb because they are training everyone to be phished by scammers.

I was learning about cold email marketing earlier this year, and it's all about learning to be a spammer: - Registering lots of domains (launchmyapp.com, trymyapp.com, myapp.info, gomyapp.biz, etc.) - setting up a limited number of mailboxes per domain - warming email accounts up for 2 weeks by signing up for a service that sends to and receive messages from your accounts - setting up a meta inbox to track messages s…

> cold email marketing earlier this year, and it's all about learning to be a spammer

You sound surprised. What's the difference between "cold email marketing" and "spamming"?

Re: PayPal to support Ethereum and Bitcoin

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Post by vbezhenar »

progval wrote: post #347
vbezhenar wrote: post #345

Earlier quoted context omitted.

With subdomains, you might leak cookies accidentally or maliciously to the root domain. They are not as separated as real domains are.

Then don't put anything on the root domain and use www.paypal.com for the main operations. corp.paypal.com's cookies are separated from www.paypal.com's.

www.paypal.com can create cookie for paypal.com and that cookie will be sent for corp.paypal.com requests. And vice-versa, of course.

Re: PayPal to support Ethereum and Bitcoin

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Post by Pxtl »

kinakomochidayo wrote: post #286
Pxtl wrote: post #169

With the expensive and slow transactions of BTC and Ether, is there any crypto currency that is actually practical to spend on something like Paypal?

You probably need to update your sources. It’s super cheap to send ETH https://www.gasfees.io/

Huh, I was basing this on NFT gas prices since that's the part of blockchain I've always been most curious about, I didn't realize that simple ETH transfers required far less gas than things like minting and selling NFTs.

Re: PayPal to support Ethereum and Bitcoin

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Post by 7bit »

HWR_14 wrote: post #365
devoutsalsa wrote: post #362

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was learning about cold email marketing earlier this year, and it's all about learning to be a spammer: - Registering lots of domains (launchmyapp.com, trymyapp.com, myapp.info, gomyapp.biz, etc.) - setting up a limited number of mailboxes per domain - warming email accounts up for 2 weeks by signing up for a service that sends to and receive messages from your accounts - setting up a meta inbox to track messages s…

> cold email marketing earlier this year, and it's all about learning to be a spammer You sound surprised. What's the difference between "cold email marketing" and "spamming"?

One term ist slightly longer

Re: PayPal to support Ethereum and Bitcoin

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Post by maccard »

kragen wrote: post #299
maccard wrote: post #263

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My golf instructor accepts bitcoin and provides a 50% discount for doing so!

Are they overseas or something? Why are they willing to offer such a large discount?

Nope, in person in my city. Afraid I don't actually know why he does, but it was pretty easy for me to buy a years worth of lessons for 50% off.

Re: PayPal to support Ethereum and Bitcoin

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Post by WhereIsTheTruth »

esskay wrote: post #184

I'm both surprised they didn't already, and am more surprised people are still willing to even use PayPal at this point.

I used to use both PayPal and Stripe for my online business

Stripe would occasionally charge me an obscene amount of money to pay for the bank "charge back" fees

I never had this issue with PayPal; i usually get dispute cases, but they always get positively closed

My only issue with PayPal is their devise conversion fees, i'd argue their behavior there constitutes fraud.. and their UX, their web interface is painfully slow

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