Wallet of Satoshi vanishes from Apple and Google's US app stores

Bitcoin (BTC) Lightning payments app Wallet of Satoshi (WoS) has disappeared from Apple’s App Store and Google’s Play Store successful the United States arsenic it closes successful connected implicit 1 cardinal transactions for November.

On Nov. 24, respective users and crypto assemblage participants shared connected X (Twitter) their attempts to hunt for the WoS app, which turned up nary results oregon redirected users to competing wallet apps.

Wallet of Satoshi banned successful the US? pic.twitter.com/S44qN5UI2U

— ck (@ck_SNARKs) November 23, 2023

However, the WoS app inactive appeared for download connected the Australian Apple App Store and the Australian and Singapore Google Play Store versions astatine the clip of writing.

Apple’s U.S. App Store doesn’t instrumentality results erstwhile searching for Wallet of Satoshi. Source: Apple

Wallet of Satoshi is simply a fashionable Lightning payments level that is connected gait to process implicit 1.1 cardinal Lightning payments successful November, according to manufacture writer and podcaster Kevin Rooke.

— Kevin Rooke (@kerooke) November 22, 2023

Rooke added it would beryllium the firm’s “largest period of Lightning payments ever.”

Apple and Wallet of Satoshi but did not instantly respond to a petition for much details.

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Apple levies a hefty 30% tax connected in-app payments which it maintains a choky leash implicit and has been a obstruction for crypto platforms wanting an App Store beingness arsenic it lone allows for 

On Nov. 17, a radical of disgruntled PayPal Venmo and Block Cash App users filed a class-action lawsuit against Apple, claiming the institution had entered into anti-competitive agreements with PayPal and Block to restrict the usage of crypto exertion connected iOS.

Apple has a past of removing crypto apps with the steadfast delisting the Nostr-based Damus app implicit a Bitcoin extremity diagnostic successful June. It besides briefly pulled the MetaMask wallet app from its App Store successful October.

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