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Notch went from having trouble with Paypal over a poultry $750k to being a Billionaire. That's awesome.

How did he run afowl of paypal?

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/103385-PayPal-Free...

Back in 2010 when Minecraft was very young.

"Because it's a struggle for me to scrape together 750 bucks" - NOT anymore! So awesome.

paypal tend to be weird

I've used PayPal for many years with no problems. While I don't defend what they did to Notch- Any bank would have.

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