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These Are the Six Crypto-Currencies Approved By Apple (softpedia.com)
An anonymous reader quotes Softpedia: Anthony Di Iorio, founder of Jaxx, a crypto-currency wallet, claims that an Apple representative revealed to him the six crypto-currencies allowed on the App Store, during a private phone conversation... Di Iorio had this conversation with the Apple employee after the company removed his Jaxx iOS app from the store. The Apple employee told Di Iorio that they had to remove his app because it featured support for Dash, another blockchain technology, touted as an alternative to Bitcoin.
During the conversation, Di Iorio asked what crypto-currencies Apple approves of, so he'd know what to remove from Jaxx's iOS version and get his app back on the App Store. Di Iorio says that Apple is comfortable approving apps on its App Store that handle only six crypto-currencies: Bitcoin, Dogecoin, Litecoin, Ethereum, the DAO and Ripple. Reaction to Apple's list of approved crypto-currencies wasn't positive, at least on Twitter. Most users criticized Apple's decision to limit the list to only six, which they considered might thwart the evolution of other, lesser-known crypto-currencies.
Vitalik Buterin, who helped create Ethereum with Di lorio, tweeted "For the record: despite being a beneficiary of this instance of (private) regulatory protectionism, I oppose it."
During the conversation, Di Iorio asked what crypto-currencies Apple approves of, so he'd know what to remove from Jaxx's iOS version and get his app back on the App Store. Di Iorio says that Apple is comfortable approving apps on its App Store that handle only six crypto-currencies: Bitcoin, Dogecoin, Litecoin, Ethereum, the DAO and Ripple. Reaction to Apple's list of approved crypto-currencies wasn't positive, at least on Twitter. Most users criticized Apple's decision to limit the list to only six, which they considered might thwart the evolution of other, lesser-known crypto-currencies.
Vitalik Buterin, who helped create Ethereum with Di lorio, tweeted "For the record: despite being a beneficiary of this instance of (private) regulatory protectionism, I oppose it."
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Limiting the currencies to well known, well used currencies will go some-way to stopping people using App Store apps to launder money between different currencies with apple providing the resources to do it.
Bitcoin barely exists, the others have such a tiny deployment that Apple will probably choose to integrate them into one of their products. Anything else so far below the radar they've run out of hole to dig.
Why would you want a bunch of apps pretending to support financial operations in pretend currencies on your phone? Even the edging-towards-legit bitcoin is a security and support nightmare.
Anthony Di Iorio, founder of Jaxx, a crypto-currency wallet, claims that an Apple representative revealed to him the six crypto-currencies allowed on the App Store, during a private phone conversation...
Is it my imagination, or did this remind anyone else of the story of Joseph Smith?
Or perhaps the story of John Ballou Newbrough?
(Gordon Stein in the book Encyclopedia of Hoaxes (1993) noted that the revelations of Apple have not been taken seriously because they were revealed to contain "many factual errors and unfulfilled prophecies.")
first amendment > you
It reminds me more of this story:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
But the literature is full of men who have been given special information secretly from on high and then endeavor to bring it to the masses. In this case, the deity happened to be Apple.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Apple employees need to get high too.
Most of everything you just said is plain wrong.
I bought some illicit bulk legos (from a small shop on bricklink) this week and we did not have to pay paypal processing fees, it was awesome. Me and my three year old were getting high building a castle.
That's six ways to lose all your money when the exchange gets robbed.
I will concede that the major anonymouns coins: dash (formerly dark coin and the topic of this story), monero, and counterparty have shot up in price significantly over the past month, during a period where bitcoin has been mostly flat or fallen in value. I am not sure what is driving the increased price/market cap, but I assume the dark net is involved.
Many cryptocurrencies are flat out scams. Arguably, they all are. By limiting the supported ones to a list of ones that are at least generally believed to be "legit" and beneficial to SOMEONE, they have done a lot of good work, and saved their users the hassle of being tricked by Trumpcoin or some really scammy one.
Yea yea yea, it's not super free and open. But given what cryptocurrencies do with that, who really cares? Apple doesn't owe you a living, or a free lunch.
Tell that to Local Burger, Little Zoe's, Route 101 Local Goods, Bon Vivant, Uncommon Goods, ThinkPenguin, Inc, Corner News, Moda Suo Studio, Fox Agorist Taxicab, Bon Vivant Gourmet Stree, Thomas Caroll Garden Center, Crossroads Pizza and Sub, and a bunch of others in and around my little old town of 30,000 people (Keene, NH). In addition to these we have TWO BitCoin vending machines, a few barbers/hair salon places, realtor’s, accountants, contractors, farmers/local produce, and a bunch of other places taking BitCoin. There are people including myself who pay their employees wholly in BitCoin (per request, not because we forced it on them).
If you have a problem spending BitCoin where you live and want freedom move to New Hampshire. We actually have a liberty-loving migration movement going on here and lots of businesses and individuals are accepting and spending BitCoin. All over New Hampshire you'll have no problem spending coin at 'legitimate' and illegal operations (we have a few unlicensed restaurants in Keene, NH as well).
I will concede that the major anonymouns coins: dash (formerly dark coin and the topic of this story), monero, and counterparty have shot up in price significantly over the past month, during a period where bitcoin has been mostly flat or fallen in value. I am not sure what is driving the increased price/market cap, but I assume the dark net is involved.
It may be the realization that bitcoin is not anonymous but there are newer alt-coins that have addressed that issue.
'The tyrant will always find pretext for his tyranny.' - Aesop's Fables
Apple should ban cryptocurrencies altogether.
That would be true to form for Apple.
You do realise there are other places in the world other than Keene, NH--quite a few of them, in fact?
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
Sure, Dash is not quite as 'ready' (and I say that loosely) to be used in lieu of apple pay, but perhaps they view it as a competitor and do not want it available? /tinfoilconspiracy
why not PPC? Truly revolutionary, not just a copy
Apple should ban cryptocurrencies altogether. They're not used to purchase legitimate goods because nobody accepts them. The highly variable exchange rates virtually guarantee that nobody will want to accept them. They are, however, frequently used to purchase illicit goods and services through websites like the former Silk Road. Apple should do the right thing and ban cryptocurrencies altogether.
Yes, also ban guns, baseball bats and cars because they can be used for crimes too. Especially guns. They can kill people.
P.S Why do you want to increase street violence levels by making it harder for sites like Silk Road to operate?
We have a few millions 'liberty loving' people from North Africa and the middle east who can't find work to earn money in our 'unfree world where you can't buy everything with Bitcoin'. Can they move too to your libertarian utopia (that still profits from the 'evil' government for it's protection, safety and stability)?
Yep. We don't care about Apple
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"To protect its users, Apple has decided to limit purchases with its Apple Pay product to Target and Mobil, after receiving numerous complaints about customer experience at Walmart and Shell."
You wanted a walled garden, you got a walled garden. Enjoy it.
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My God, it's Full of Source!
OUTSIDE_IP=$(dig +short my.ip @outsideip.net)
Just use aliexpress. That site is good for bulk lego. Free shipping too.
I thought dogecoin was a joke?
Does this mean that somebody, somewhere has actually made a legit business transfer using "funny money"?
A better use of your time would be learning grammar.
Given that Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are the currencies of choice for crime is there any real point to supporting them?
Does Apple need drug addicts as customers that badly? Since when were money launderers, pimps, and drug dealers valuable to Apple?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coinye
... they can't figure out whether to call it AppleCoin or TimCookCoin.
(I don't give a fuck about Dash. I don't even know what it is.)
iOs users, why do you care so much about what currencies Apple cares about? We normally choose whatever we want, or we're apathetic and don't choose anything. But you people make a big point of, and spend a lot of extra money, to have Apple decide these things for you, and you never even get their justifications: you just defer to them.
Why? What great wisdom did this company once show, that made you decide they should be your decider?
You can unload them into Kim Kardashian's ass, it's used to being unloaded into.
> I am not sure what is driving the increased price/market cap,
That's pretty simple. Bitcoin has a hard cap on block size of 1 MB. This was originally put in many years ago by Satoshi Nakamoto to limit spam attacks that would DDOS Bitcoin nodes. By the middle of this year actual user transactions were pushing the 1 MB cap, and the developers of the "Core" version of Bitcoin have refused to raise it. There are various theories about *why* they refuse to raise it (stupidity, financial conflicts of interest, etc.), but for discussing the impact on other cryptocurrencies it doesn't matter. Only the existence of the limit matters.
In order to get into the limited space for new transactions, people have had to raise the transaction fee they offer. In turn, this has made alternate currencies cheaper to use, although Bitcoin still benefits from being the first mover and the network effect (more users, more apps and tools to use it). The alternate currencies are worth more now because traders predict a shift in usage if the cap on Bitcoin remains in place for long. At the same time, the majority of users are getting fed up with with a network limited to 14.4K dialup speeds (1 MB/10 minutes = 13,333 bits/second), so there are efforts to fork the Bitcoin software (it's open source) to something less restrictive. There still needs to be some kind of limit, because network nodes have to be able to relay and verify transactions in real time, but 1 MB/10 minutes isn't it.
They don't love liberty. What gave you that silly idea?
It's bitztream, the autism-hating Slashdot troll!
The same ppl that whine about Uber taking the jobs away from Taxi drivers,
Will turn around & whine about Apple being "protectionist."
The difference is, one is the gov, one is not. And of course, good liberals always support government protectionism.
Forget your Coinye, what about my Flappycoins?