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by Apocryphon 916 days ago
> to be the next PayPal, the Western counterpart to WeChat that folks can use to accomplish pretty much anything

PayPal is not anything like an all-in-one app like WeChat, and basically every platform from Apple Messages to Facebook Messenger to Snapchat has allowed users to send money, for years. And a few of those apps have attempted to be all in one apps, with years of a head start in that space.