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
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This is how you clean up the American oil and gas industry AND guarantee America becomes the #1 #bitcoin mining nation in the world at the same time.
This plan can only happen under @realDonaldTrump's focused leadership, and steps have to be taken quickly!
1) Remove all Federal income tax requirements on bitcoin mined from stranded or flared natural gas sources.
This will help incentivize thousands of bitcoin mines all across an enormous stranded resource base that currently has *zero value* to Americans.
Doing so will unlock *new mineral ROYALTY streams* from natural gas that has no other way to market. These streams will far exceed any income taxes waived.
It will also unlock MORE oil production royalties by relieving oil production rate limits caused by flaring caps!
The amount of cash royalties generated will be staggering!!
Every American oilfield is full of thousands of isolated natural gas sources that can fuel an engine, power a bitcoin miner, and GENERATE CASH ROYALTIES for ALL AMERICANS.
2) Remove all EPA and related permitting hurdles for power generation that is fueled by sources of otherwise wasted natural gas.
Even an engine with no catalyst or emissions control technology is STILL FAR BETTER THAN FLARING NATURAL GAS!
Engines can become ultra reliable the more simply they are designed and constructed. The EPA's irrational emissions requirements have forced manufacturers to build complex engines chasing small gains in emissions control at the cost of extremely expensive capital, operating and maintenance requirements.
EPA restrictions on engine emissions have been a huge net negative, the EPA's RULES EFFECTIVELY INCENTIVIZE FLARING AND RESOURCE WASTE.
(This is a 200 kW rated 'Hash Generator' built by my team at Upstream Data. It is an EPA-certified bitcoin mining natural gas generator package that we build for the American oil and gas industry to mine bitcoin)
3) Place mineral royalties on vented and flared natural gas volumes that exceed a permitted limit, provided they meet a minimum gas quality standard.
Flaring is crucial for both safety (controlled release of energy) and the optimization of oil facilities.
However, flaring often exceeds the necessary volume for a pilot flame and the gas is simply being disposed of.
Unlike sour gas, which is extremely expensive to treat or use for power generation and is often best suited for flare, sweet natural gas can almost always be conditioned to generate quality power.
Make oil companies that torch quality, non-renewable and usable American minerals to PAY FOR THEM!
Similarly, place limitations on venting volumes and require oil producers to pay royalties on all of the excess volumes.
There is no need to waste energy anymore when you can drop a bitcoin mining loadcenter right next to it!
4) Reduce regulatory barriers for new business ventures to take over and operate orphaned wells to mine bitcoin.
Orphaned wells are wells without an owner, such as from bankruptcy. Traditionally if receivers cannot figure out how to monetize the well economically, then the well is not acquired and it is left to the American taxpayer to clean up.
Orphaned wells are a major liability.
These wells slowly rot over time from lack of maintenance, and the landowner is left with a liability degrading their land.
Many orphaned wells have enough gas to power a bitcoin mine for long enough to generate enough royalties to help reclaim the well.
Bitcoin miners can literally turn these liabilities into revenue generating assets! #CashGenerators
The Federal (and State) governments should simply charge bitcoin miners who locate equipment on an orphaned wells a royalty and assign that royalty to a fund to be used to clean up the well when they are finished.
Local counties should not require equipment property tax and limit permitting / road access fees.
Why punish people who are investing in cleaning up your liabilities?
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If you like this post please retweet and stay tuned for Part 2 - Revitalizing American Coal!!
@Breedlove22 Difference is US has a globally dominant navy that influence world trade and federal agencies that control citizens. It has the monopoly on violence so it has monopoly on money (shitcoin).
@kariwhan13 I agree, those peasants and fascists with no degrees. Govt. funded news and education from socialist instutituons are the ultimate sources of truth!