Payment processors freezing merchant money is clown behaviour

About PayRam

PayRam is the world’s first self-hosted stablecoin payments gateway built to help merchants, builders, and creators become their own payment processors.
Instead of trusting centralized platforms that freeze accounts, delay payouts, and control your cash flow, PayRam lets you own your checkout, settle payments directly on-chain, and define your own policies.
No middlemen. No “compliance holds.” No payout delays.Just fast, censorship-free, stablecoin payments that move as quickly as you build.
PayRam exists to widen access to commerce, empowering anyone, anywhere, to get paid without asking for permission.
In a world where the biggest gatekeepers can silence your business with a single API call, PayRam gives you merchant sovereignty, total control over your money, your infra, and your future.
Now, it’s time to turn that mission into a movement.

Mission

Our last campaign roasted the broken payments system loud and clear.
This one pushes it further: educate, expose, and elevate PayRam through high-signal long-form threads.
The mission is to empower creators, merchants, and crypto-natives to expose the flaws of centralized payment processors and highlight why self-hosted stablecoin payments are the future, all through long-form, high-context content on Twitter/X.
This campaign is simple:
Create extended posts on X that compare PayRam to PayPal, Stripe, Payoneer, BTCPay Server, or other PSPs. Explain the problems, highlight the pain points, and show how PayRam solves them through self-hosted stablecoin payments.
Tag brands and influential voices in crypto who advocate for decentralization and financial freedom, and help position PayRam as the open, self-hosted alternative to PayPal, Stripe, BTCPay Server, and other traditional payment processors.
Your role:Break down the failures of legacy payment systems, showcase the power of self-hosting, and help bring the PayRam narrative into mainstream crypto discourse.
Because payments shouldn’t need permission. And when the world realizes that stablecoins + self-hosting = financial freedom, the creators who led the conversation will be the ones who shaped the movement.
Welcome to a new chapter of payments: real ownership, real sovereignty, real stablecoin commerce.

Rewards

Total rewards: $1,000
Bonus weight is given to extended posts that spark conversation, go viral, or clearly explain PayRam’s value vs centralized PSPs.
This ensures steady contributors get rewarded while top creators earn extra for content that truly moves the narrative.

Purpose

The purpose of this campaign is to grow public awareness around self-hosted stablecoin payments and position PayRam as an alternative to PayPal, Stripe, and other intermediaries.
By driving long-form content on X, we create a wave of educational, narrative-shifting threads that explain:
  • Why fund freezes are a systemic PSP problem
  • Why merchants need ownership, not gatekeepers
  • Why stablecoins are the natural evolution of global payments
  • Why PayRam is the infrastructure layer for that future
This campaign builds PayRam’s culture, expands its audience, and sets the stage for the next wave of builders and merchants adopting payments infrastructure built for the new internet economy.

Scope Detail

To participate:
  • Write extended posts using any of the official campaign titles
  • Compare PayRam with legacy PSPs like PayPal, Stripe, Payoneer, BTCPay Server, etc.
  • Tag @PayRamApp in your post
  • Tag  influential voices like and brands to amplify the conversation
  • Use AI tools (ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Grok) to sharpen your narrative and improve your craft, not to copy-paste generic content.
  • Share the thread publicly, private or unlisted posts won’t count
  • Keep your content educational, original, and aligned with the stablecoin payments theme
Avoid botting, spam behavior, or low-effort generated content.

Submission Requirements

To ensure your submission counts:
  • Your long-form tweet or thread must use one of the official titles exactly:
    Why Emerging Businesses Are Choosing PayRam Over PayPal and Stripe?
    PayPal Froze $50,000 of My Startup’s Money. The Solution Was a Self-Hosted Payments Gateway like PayRam.
    PayPal, Stripe & Payoneer Keep Freezing Merchant Funds, PayRam Lets You Hold Your Own Keys.
    “Your Account Is Under Review”: The Standard Email From PayPal & Stripe. PayRam Never Sends One.
    PayPal vs Stripe vs PayRam: Why Modern Businesses Need Ownership, Not Gatekeepers.
  • Your content must compare PayRam with centralized PSPs
  • Must mention stablecoin payments as a core concept
  • Must hyperlink PayRam at least once:  https://payram.com 
  • Must tag  @PayRamApp  when posting
  • Bonus points for tagging @balajis and @saylor
  • Post publicly on your X profile
Tweets will be checked manually and evaluated based on quality, clarity, and impact.

Resources

  • PayRam installation article:  Medium article 
  • PayRam CoinTelegraph PR:  Press Release 
  • PayRam manifesto:  Notion link 
  • PayRam master doc:  Notion link 
  • Brand Kit:  Notion link 
  • Website:  www.payram.com 
  • Docs:  www.docs.payram.com 
  • X Account:  @PayRamApp 

Judging Criteria

ClarityDoes your thread/article explain the difference between centralized PSPs and PayRam clearly?
Narrative StrengthDoes it help ordinary merchants understand why stablecoin payments matter?
CreativityDoes it tell a compelling story or break down real pain points?
Educational ValueDoes it teach something meaningful about payments, crypto, and ownership?
ShareabilityDoes it encourage conversation, tagging, or community engagement?
Bonus points for posts that spark replies, quote tweets, or discussions.

Terms

This campaign exists to spark conversation, education, and a bit of healthy chaos around the future of payments. Submissions are meant to highlight real problems with centralized processors and showcase PayRam as a self-hosted alternative, but all opinions expressed belong solely to the creators who post them.Roast responsibly, educate boldly, and remember:If anything goes wrong, Kevin from Legal has already prepared 47 versions of “we told you so.”