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Apple Removes Blockchain Bitcoin Wallet Apps from its App Stores
Coin Desk ^
| 6 February 2014
| Jon Southurst
Posted on 02/06/2014 7:53:36 AM PST by Errant
Apple has removed the Blockchain wallet app from its iOS App Stores, leaving iPhone and iPad users with no native bitcoin wallet options for their devices.
Apple offered no explanation for the action and no option to appeal, other than saying the removal was due to “an unresolved issue”.
The Cupertino company’s move did not come as a complete surprise, as Apple had previously banned bitcoin wallet apps Coinbase and CoinJar, and insisted encrypted messaging app Gliph remove an option that allowed users to send bitcoin. CoinJar is still available for download on the local Australian App Store.
Blockchain had been available on the iOS App Store for over two years, and had been downloaded more than 120,000 times. Its native app for desktops was also removed from the Mac App store, though the slightly more open nature of OS X means users may still download and install this version from non-Apple sources.
(Excerpt) Read more at coindesk.com ...
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KEYWORDS: apple; appstore; bitcoin; bitcoinapp; wallet
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posted on
02/06/2014 7:53:36 AM PST
by
Errant
To: Lurkina.n.Learnin; nascarnation; TsonicTsunami08; SgtHooper; Ghost of SVR4; Lee N. Field; DTA; ...
Click to be Added / Removed.
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posted on
02/06/2014 7:54:15 AM PST
by
Errant
(Surround yourself with intelligent and industrious people who help and support each other.)
To: Errant
AN unresolved issue with the soft ware or the government?
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posted on
02/06/2014 7:59:22 AM PST
by
null and void
(<--- unwilling cattle-car passenger on the bullet train to serfdom)
To: null and void
Apple probably couldn’t monetize the bitcoin transactions so they removed it. If they don’t get their cut you can’t play.
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posted on
02/06/2014 8:01:23 AM PST
by
for-q-clinton
(If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
To: Errant; COUNTrecount; Nowhere Man; FightThePower!; C. Edmund Wright; jacob allen; Travis McGee; ...
Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!
To get onto The Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping List you must threaten to report me to the Mods if I don't add you to the list...
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posted on
02/06/2014 8:04:47 AM PST
by
null and void
(<--- unwilling cattle-car passenger on the bullet train to serfdom)
To: Errant
Sure is lousy way to treat your customers.
Like the Chinese, they’ll be back.
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posted on
02/06/2014 8:08:51 AM PST
by
PoloSec
( Believe the Gospel: how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again)
To: null and void
Highly recommened - and can be had for free download from the Mises Institute. Anyone attempting to run a business under the Obama regime must read this.
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posted on
02/06/2014 8:17:54 AM PST
by
Paine in the Neck
(Our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor)
To: Paine in the Neck
Thanks! Didn’t know about the free download. (I have a dead tree edition)
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posted on
02/06/2014 8:26:45 AM PST
by
null and void
(<--- unwilling cattle-car passenger on the bullet train to serfdom)
To: Errant
What happens to the bitcoins people had in their wallets?
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posted on
02/06/2014 8:34:37 AM PST
by
RWGinger
To: RWGinger
Hopefully they had a paper trail!!@!!!
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posted on
02/06/2014 8:36:38 AM PST
by
Baseballguy
(pharaphase (If someone does not believe in heaven or hell - they should not care where they go))
To: Paine in the Neck
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posted on
02/06/2014 8:48:40 AM PST
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: for-q-clinton
Apple probably couldn’t monetize the bitcoin transactions so they removed it. If they don’t get their cut you can’t play. Yep. That's why you can't buy books on the Amazon Kindle app on an Apple device - Amazon didn't want to give 30% off the top of every sale to Apple. So now you have to use the web browser to buy a book and Apple gets nothing.
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posted on
02/06/2014 8:49:44 AM PST
by
KarlInOhio
(Republican amnesty supporters don't care whether their own homes are called mansions or haciendas.)
To: null and void
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posted on
02/06/2014 9:02:00 AM PST
by
Nifster
To: RWGinger
What happens to the bitcoins people had in their wallets?
from what I've read, they removed it from the App Store. Not from devices with it already installed.
To: DuncanWaring
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posted on
02/07/2014 2:36:09 AM PST
by
thesearethetimes...
("Courage, is fear that has said its prayers." Dorothy Bernard)
To: mmichaels1970
thank you for answering
that makes sense
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posted on
02/07/2014 11:26:01 AM PST
by
RWGinger
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