[saneshark]

I think Venmo must have come under greater scrutiny. I was recently contacted by someone in their support and compliance team about a charitable donation I made to a Syrian refugee cause. I can't help to think that this particular contribution was flagged for some kind of potential Safe Harbor violation. I gave them the name of the charity and they moved on.

It could be that they shut down the api because of the difficulty of doing compliance for these third party apps, after falling under greater scrutiny by government regulation.

Or perhaps there was a specific incident that they're trying to get ahead of:

-hypothetical-

maybe the San Bernardino phone the FBI is trying to crack has Venmo transactions through a third party app that are now under scrutiny.