# Payment account age

**URL:** <https://bisq.community/t/payment-account-age/8679>\
**Category:** Site Feedback\
**Created:** [November 7, 2019, 6:13pm UTC](https://bisq.community/t/payment-account-age/8679 "2019-11-07T18:13:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![sqrrm](https://bisq.community/letter_avatar/sqrrm/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@sqrrm](https://bisq.community/u/sqrrm)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2019, 7:11pm UTC](https://bisq.community/t/payment-account-age/8679/2 "2019-11-07T19:11:02Z")

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A mix of the two ages is now used. Signed age is used for buying using risky methods, and to become a signer, most other methods still use the account age. I think the difference hasn’t been made completely clear everywhere since the concepts are now so mixed. I agree it’s not great.

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