Watch Bitcoin Users Destroy Their iPhones in Protest of Apple Removing the Blockchain App
This is an interesting phenomenon (actually, it's hilarious). With news that Apple removed the Blockchain.info app from their App Store on Wednesday, bitcoin users who also happen to use the company's products are taking their anger out on their iOS devices. A user on Reddit called "round-peg" said that for every upvotes his post received, any person smashing their iPhone on video would be gifted a Nexus 5 Android mobile phone. The conditions? Only 5 Nexus devices would be given away, and the poster wrote that "Your reason should include the fact that Apple is anti-Bitcoin, not just....
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The remains of a destroyed iPhone 4S. Just yesterday, Apple pulled Blockchain.info's wallet app from the App Store without any clear reason. This was the last remaining wallet app on the App Store, and its removal annoyed quite a lot of Apple users. Some expressed mild to moderate disapproval over twitter. Apple not interested in #bitcoin: http://t.co/pOtis3KWLa They just want your dollars, I guess. - munin (@munin) February 6, 2014. Others however, seem to be so utterly pissed off that they've smashed their iPhones in protest. Reddit user “round-peg” posted on r/bitcoin that for every 100....
...wow? Yes, really. After just recently removing Blockchain from the App Store, Apple has approved the first Dogecoin wallet app for the App Store. It's called MYDOGE, and it's available free for iPhones, iPads, and iPod Touches. This is pretty surprising seeing that Apple's been aggressively removing Bitcoin wallets from the App Store. Why should Dogecoin be treated any differently? It seems that MYDOGE is a read-only wallet. It can be used to monitor a wallet's balance, but it CANNOT be used to send or receive DOGE. This might help explain how the app got approved, since it's not really....
Leading Australian e-tailer Millennius has stopped selling iPhones to protest against Apple's decision to remove the blockchain.info app from its app store. Millennius is a key proponent of bitcoin, and has called for wider deployment of the currency in the past. The company argues that bitcoin could lower prices online as payments are cheaper than traditional credit card payments and these savings could be passed down to consumers. Betraying ideals. The blockchain.info app was the only bitcoin-related app in Apple's walled garden of delights, and it had more than 120,000 users. The....
Apple has made few friends in the bitcoin realm ever since throwing down the ban hammer on popular bitcoin wallet apps like Blockchain.info, Coinbase, and CoinJar. iDevice users even went so far as to destroy their own devices in protest, with some slamming, throwing, and even shooting their pricey electronics to tell Apple they weren't happy. Many speculated that the Cupertino, California-based company had shunned bitcoin wallet apps in preparation of their own payment service, which a number of Apple fan sites covering in the topic in recent weeks (see MacRumors and AppleInsider) have....