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In that case it isn’t, but this thread is specifically about holding money in PayPal: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45250598

My point is that one doesn’t get all the protections normally taken for granted for EU bank accounts.

You'd be surprised. A lot of sellers don't "cash out" from paypal all that often, letting tens of thousands pile up. (And inevitably, some of them get hit with arbitrary account closures and have that money seized)

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

I haven’t researched the details, but it doesn’t work that way, because they aren’t providing regular bank accounts.

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