Recap of Mycelium's Google Play Drama
Few days ago, on the 10th of February, the Mycelium team received a notice from Google in regards to their app. The wallet application got removed by Google for allegedly violating Google play's section 3.5 of the Developer Distribution Agreement. This section didn't really provide the team with a clear enough explanation on why their app could have actually been banned. Mycelium community manager Dmitry Murashchik mentioned this in a Reddit post. members of the team originally thought that their app could have been banned either due to the fees had to apply for transactions or because of....
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