My attempt to protect users from scam apps on the @AppStore has gotten my Apple Developer account flagged for termination - ironically, for "dishonest activity".
Unless it's reversed by June 30, all new installs of Sparrow Wallet will fail, and development on macOS will end.
The context: since 2023, more than a dozen fake "Sparrow" apps have appeared on the App Store, as recently as April this year. Users have contacted me after losing their savings, in some cases their life savings, to these impersonators.
I'm the developer of the real Sparrow Wallet, a desktop app, and I hold the registered US trademarks for the name and logo. I have publicly warned @Apple and the community about these fake apps from early 2024, but they keep appearing.
The app @Apple flagged was a placeholder that was never published. Its only purpose was to warn users that Sparrow is desktop-only and that other "Sparrow" apps aren't mine. This approach may have been misguided, but there was nothing dishonest about it.
I'm confident this is an automated misclassification that Apple would reverse on review - but I may be terminated before a human ever looks at my appeal. The cost would fall on @Apple's own users: blocked installs and no updates for a tool people rely on, which opens the door for more fakes.
If you value Sparrow, a repost would help. @AppleSupport
@statusquont@bitcoinfool@Apple Didn’t work. App (with the screens below) was rejected for having “placeholder content” and only “demonstrating a concept”.
The metaphor of “sending” someone bitcoin is strictly inaccurate, and actually a bit misleading.
A new ledger entry is made, a transaction.
Keys that couldn’t sign certain valid transactions now can. Control of bitcoin shifts as the ability to sign such transactions shifts, but nothing actually moves. Nothing is “sent” except information, and it is sent to everyone, not the recipient of the value.
Control goes from one key to another instantaneously regardless of distance between key holders… superluminal “travel.” Which is why it isn’t really travel.
When the tallest person in the world dies, the previously second tallest person becomes the tallest. The distinction of being tallest “moves” instantaneously in exactly this way.
When someone changes the locks on my door, my key loses the ability to open my door, but no physical signal travels from my new door lock to my key, causing that key to fail to unlock the new door!
This is how bitcoin is “sent.”
Ok all you Bitcoiners knew that already.
But have you thought about how the metaphor is just as misleading for plain old bank money? Again it’s a ledger change. Nothing actually moves, nothing is sent. The bank changes who it owes. Claims on the bank are different before and after the change. But there was no literal sending of anything.
The difference between bitcoin and bank money is just over the control of the ledger, of course.
Again, you Bitcoiners know all this. Anyway, just a philosopher observing that we speak very loosely when we talk about “rails” for sending value. It’s all metaphor.
As soon as we left commodity money behind, it was strictly wrong to talk about sending value but we are so wedded to commodity money thinking we can’t abandon the language or the conceptual tooling. We have to imagine that value is literally the packets being sent (no—they are potential ledger entries or simply ledgers). We imagine a stuff zipping through tubes. (Back to the Internet as a series of tubes!)
When you send bitcoin you bestow a permission on someone else they didn’t have. You announce that publicly in a kind of canonical speech act with your signature to attest.
When you say “I thee wed” you do not send something to your spouse. You send a message to everyone that changes your relationship to your spouse, in the eyes of everyone at the ceremony.
That’s the kind of bestowal that happens in payments.
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