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bostik on July 5, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Sleeping beauty Bitcoin wallets wake up after 14 y...

Some of the history between the two companies is covered in a book, "Paypal Wars.[0]

Among other things it happens to spotlight Musk's fascination with having "X" as the company name, especially for a bank.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_PayPal_Wars

everfrustrated on July 5, 2025 [–]

Yup. Also explains why X is trying to move into payments now.

Elon seems to need to finish a vision he didn't get a chance to finish back then.

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