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I don’t understand how the account did not have payment history. Hadn’t it been in operation for quite some time?

I think the account used startup credit.

https://www.digitalocean.com/hatch/

The tweet thread suggested using for years. So either they are giving credits long time for startups they don't even know how and what they are doing or messed up a simple logic about history of the customer.

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