Apple May Soon Allow Bitcoin Apps

House · Jun 7, 2014

Apple's App Store Review Guidelines have updated a section within the "Purchasing and Currencies" which states that apps may facilitate transmission of approved virtual currencies.

Moving along to the topic at hand, many people are closely scrutinizing Apple's policies today due to the kickoff of the company's annual Worldwide Developer Conference. For folks within the Bitcoin community, focus has been on a small recent entry within the section on "Purchasing and Currencies" within the document: App Store Review Guidelines. See below:

As you can see, 11.17 is the latest addition to that particular section, which is leading many to think this is a change of policy. Of course, we don't know what "approved" virtual currencies are, but if Apple didn't approve Bitcoin it would be the biggest joke of all-time and I don't think the company would be so stupid.
If myself and others are reading this correctly, it is hard to overestimate the importance of this for the Bitcoin ecosystem. Just as the complexity of buying Bitcoin held it back in the early years until companies such as Coinbase came along, so too has Apple's ban prevented BTC from growing even larger than it has thus far.
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goldpelican · Jun 7, 2014

CoinJar already have an app back up.

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