Mailpile's Paypal wallet has been frozen for 24 hours.

A week ago, Mailpile reported on the successful promotion of its crowdfunding campaign with a budget of $ 146,725. And two days ago, Brennan Novak, one of the authors of the project, posted an update to indiegogo on the fundraising campaign page, in which he informed that the business account and debit card of the project were blocked by the y Security PayPal. After repeated calls to the support service, he finally found out literally the following:

“Until Mailpile provides PayPal with a detailed budget breakdown of how they plan to use donations from their crowdfunding campaign, their account will not be unlocked for one year.”

This statement was followed by a wave of indignation on the Hacker News, Ars Technica , and Slashdot portals. The result was almost unbelievable - PayPal not only unlocked the Mailpile team account, but also donated $ 1,000 to them.
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What happened leaves a lot of food for thought about the reliability of placing their funds in such payment systems as PayPal and how effective the methods of solid popular protest can be.

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the essence of the project is to create an open-source mail web server that runs on users' personal computers and is completely protected from external interception using robust cryptography with OpenPGP support. It is designed for users who want to get rid of the problems associated with the use of Gmail, Hotmail and other services that are being listened to. People need built-in encryption, lack of advertising, speed, their own hosting, but at the same time they want to preserve the convenience of the interface, full-text search, tags, attachments and other familiar functions.