from Hacker News

PayPal's crypto partner mints $300T of stablecoins in 'technical error'

by koolba on 10/16/25, 11:35 AM with 21 comments

• by arkensaw on 10/16/25, 2:33 PM

  Stories like this just reinforce my belief that all crypto is just a big con.

• by Cpoll on 10/16/25, 1:38 PM

  I think this is a LMGTFY question, but: If Paypal started doing this maliciously, or otherwise failed in custodianship, would the community have any recourse? Specifically, can they fork the coin? The ledger is public, so I imagine yes?

• by maxrev17 on 10/16/25, 4:49 PM

  Depressing comments section conflating crypto with DLT. Money bros will always be money bros the platform doesn’t matter.