Apple Parody Video Takes on The DAOsaster, Fake Bitcoin Apps
Suspicions become aroused when Apple’s App Store claims to have an “approved digital currency” list — one which includes defunct DAO tokens and an ever-growing list of thieving Bitcoin wallets — which also, somehow, continues to stonewall Dash. A Dash wallet has twice been rejected by Apple over the past year, and the corporate behemoth went so far as to demand that Jaxx Wallet remove their popular support for Dash last week. The App Store: Picking the Bad Apples of Cryptocurrency. In response to this incoherence, I’ve just published this Apple parody video. Say hello to Millicent....
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A U.S. lawmaker has demanded answers from Apple CEO Tim Cook and Google CEO Sundar Pichai about their measures against fake cryptocurrency apps appearing in the Apple App Store and the Google Play store. “Millions of Americans use mobile apps to invest in unregulated digital assets,” said Senator Sherrod Brown. “Reports have emerged of fake crypto apps that have scammed hundreds of investors.”
U.S. Senator Questions Chief Executives of Apple and Google on Fake Crypto Apps
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Apple should have embraced the misfits and the crazy ones. There is currently a video contest happening on Reddit, and the point of the contest is to remix Apple's old ad that talks about “misfits” being the ones who change the world in a Bitcoin vs Apple scenario. While Apple has always been a company known for “thinking different”, it seems that philosophy may have ended many years ago. In reality, Apple is a company creating closed-source applications and operating systems that give the user no control over their own devices. When it comes to Bitcoin, Apple has decided to remove all....
According to an Apple Insider report published on August 9, a disturbing trend has emerged on Apple’s App Store as a series of malicious copycats of well-known Bitcoin wallet apps became available to download. Some of the fake wallets looked quite similar to the real thing but were specifically tweaked to steal bitcoins from unsuspecting users. As a result some $20,000 reportedly ended up in the pockets of scam artists before Apple was able to filter and remove the apps from its store. The relative “success” of the fake apps and the ease at which they were manufactured and distributed, for....
A parody of a PayPal Super Bowl commercial that was posted on YouTube has been blocked by the payments company. The video advertisement, PayPal's first promotion during the popular American sporting event, positions the firm as “New Money” versus the more archaic “Old Money”. According to the Wall Street Journal, after bitcoin supporters became “riled” at the ad's claim, Shiloh Silverman, owner of video production firm Silver Park Studio, made a new version of the video. His spoof cut in images of people using bitcoin and replaced “PayPal” with “Bitcoin is newer money”. However, after....