The Pi Network app disappears from the Play Store

The Pi Network app disappears from the Play Store

On the morning of December 21st, many members said that the Pi support application “Dig” suddenly disappeared from the Android Play Store app store.

According to the test, the Pi Network app is no longer available in the Play Store. When searching with the keyword “Pi Network” the results only include the Pi Browser to access some features, below are apps unrelated to Pi Network.

The link to the Play Store of the Pi Network App is still displayed when searching on Google, but clicking on it shows the error message “The requested URL was not found on the server”. In the meantime, the Pi Network App is still available in the iOS App Store.

In some groups, many Pi supporters said that the Pi Network application had not been on the Play Store since the morning of December 21st.

“People ask me why the Pi Network app disappeared from CH Play. So confused, “wrote user Vu Thanh Xuan. Some comments say that the application is only temporarily hidden, deleted to prevent account creation or because the development team is preparing the mainnet (to make it operational on the official network).

In the Pro Pi group with more than 17,000 members, an account said that the Pi Network app in the Play Store was “temporarily hidden for a major update”. The Pi Network home page states that the app is “regularly checked and not available for download from the Google Play Store,” and instructs users to download the APK file they want to install.

As of 2020, the Pi application has many users in Vietnam. The majority of Pi enthusiasts believe that if they spend just a few minutes a day “mining” Pi on their phones, there is a chance they will have a huge fortune later when the Pi is around and the Price goes up.

In February, many crypto and blockchain experts spoke about the suspicious behavior of the Pi-Network application. Despite claiming to be a blockchain-based cryptocurrency application, the Pi application is actually just a presence login page that displays a web view for viewing information.

Lately, a lot of people have returned to “mining” Pi when the Pi Network homepage said it was preparing for the mainnet phase, aside from some rumors of bringing Pi to the cryptocurrency exchange with an exchange value.

However, the Pi application did not reveal the core technology and source code, which led many blockchain experts to warn of the project’s lack of transparency. Some analysis also shows that the Pi application collects user contacts, uploads them to the server, but loosely manages them, making them vulnerable to hackers.