GitHub sponsor stops supporting PayPal, ``support with credit card or debit card'' GitHub

GitHub has updated its official blog and announced that after February 23rd, payments for ``

GitHub said in a blog on January 23, 2023, 'Beginning February 23rd, GitHub Sponsors will no longer support PayPal as a payment processor. As such, PayPal may not be used to sponsor individuals or entities. It will be gone,' he announced.

According to GitHub, if you're currently using PayPal to sponsor a developer on GitHub, you'll need to update your GitHub payment method to pay by credit or debit card.

Sponsors will receive an email with the following information:

GitHub joining the 'screw PayPal' crew pic.twitter.com/DuW020LGeY

— arturo182 ???? (@ arturo182) January 23, 2023

The reason why GitHub sponsors discontinue PayPal support is unknown at the time of writing. Also, I don't know the reason why the announcement was made suddenly, one month until the end of support.

In the social news site Hacker News thread that covered this incident, a comment was written that speculated, ``There was probably a security problem, or the negotiations between the two companies broke down.'' GitHub bears the sponsorship fee, so I think PayPal 's fee was judged to be too high.' It's the cause of the problem.' Opinions were exchanged.

PayPal revealed on January 18, 2023 that the personal information of 35,000 people was leaked in a cyber attack in December 2022.

It turned out that a cyber attack occurred at PayPal and personal information of about 35,000 people was leaked - GIGAZINE

Also on Twitter , he speculated, 'Has any of PayPal's exorbitant business practices crossed the line?' It will be a big pain,' a tweet was posted.

Welp! #GitHub is dropping #PayPal as a supported payment method for Sponsors

That's gonna sting a lot indie devs who get a non-trivial chunk of their funding through the platform pic.twitter.com/fOgezI24Uq

— r҉ustic cy͠be̸rpu̵nk (@cypnk) January 24, 2023