Oh look. Yet another opaque and terribly-communicated "requirement" that inevitably results in thousands of host payouts being held back by Airbnb, to conveniently languish in the company accounts for much, much longer than necessary. (With the IPO on the horizon, of course, it's top priority that the illusion of stratospheric month-on-month growth is maintained somehow, by whatever means necessary, in order to reel in and seduce those armies of potential new investors) I guess all the channel-stuffing mustn't be yielding the desired outcomes.
If these arbitrary payout-witholdings have anything whatsoever to do with money-laundering prevention (or "glitches", for that matter), then I'm the Queen of ** Sheba.