Coinbase CEO Criticizes Apple When Damus Is Removed From App Store

Key Points:

• Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong has criticized Apple for removing Damus from their shelves.
• He considers this to be disrespectful to users and destroys Damus’ image.
• The founder of this open social app has vowed to appeal because Apple’s rule has been abused and misapplied.

Coinbase CEO commented that Damus being removed from the shelves was disrespectful to users and damaged the brand image.

“It’s really crazy that Apple will unilaterally block you from running the software you want on your own device. One of the most disrespectful parts of their culture, and it’s damaging to their brand.” CEO Brian Armstrong commented on Twitter.

Yesterday, William Casarin, founder of Damus, an open social app based on the Nostr protocol, tweeted that Damus will be removed from the App Store on Tuesday for violating Apple’s in-app purchase rules.

He said that while we’ve updated the app and clarified that users won’t unlock any digital content after paying, it will still be removed from the App Store.

The app said it would appeal because the rule had been abused and misapplied. Damus was launched on the App Store earlier this year but was ordered by Apple to be removed from the shelves on June 13 because of its “zaps” function (a unique function of Damus that allows users to send small amounts of bitcoin to content creators through the Lightning Network, similar to tweets).

Apple says it doesn’t allow zaps on its platform because they “may” be used by content creators to sell digital content. Apple then said it spoke with Damus and agreed on how Damus’ hits will survive on the platform.

Damus is a decentralized social media platform running on the Nostr protocol, which is quite popular with bitcoins. One of the reasons for its popularity is that most Nostr implementations support payments over the blockchain’s Lightning Network. Lightning is Bitcoin’s second-layer payment network allowing faster transactions and lower transaction fees.

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