I suppose I could have waited a week or two for Steem to approve my account after they checked my email and phone number and so on, but I decided to pay the small fee to skip the waiting.
I have been using PayPal for ages, so when I saw that Steem Ninja supports PayPal, I went for it.
It did not work. PayPal's site opened and I completed the transaction, and then waited. It failed.
Later I tried again.
Another fail.
OK, I thought, let me try to buy a Steem voucher using PayPal and then use the voucher for myself.
It failed.
My conclusion is that PayPal and Steem Ninja simply do not go together.
I used my CC and et voila! Here I am.
Why PayPal failed, I do not know.