Jules Dern

[Craig Raw 🐦 @craigraw]

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

[Bitcoin at Block @BitcoinatBlock]

We have one shot at this. Congress can and must get it right.

Email your rep: https://t.co/TcWBeRqHQi

[Bitcoin at Block @BitcoinatBlock]

Bitcoin was designed as money. The merchants are set up, the technology is proven, the demand is here, and American small businesses stand to benefit.

The largest remaining barrier is the tax code.

[Bitcoin at Block @BitcoinatBlock]

This is a paperwork issue.

Today, every bitcoin purchase, no matter how small, triggers a complicated tax form from the IRS.

That burden is unfair, and it falls hardest on everyday Americans.

[Bitcoin at Block @BitcoinatBlock]

This is a competition issue.

The US should not make it harder to use bitcoin as money over stablecoins. Tax policy should be tech-neutral instead of picking winners and losers.

To the small business and the customer at the counter, both are just a way to pay.

[Bitcoin at Block @BitcoinatBlock]

This is a payments issue, not an investment one.

A reasonable de minimis for digital asset payments lets people make everyday purchases freely. Bitcoin used as money should be treated as money under the tax code.

Period.

[Bitcoin at Block @BitcoinatBlock]

Congress is taking a real first step toward crafting fair crypto tax policy in the US. Their latest crypto tax package offers relief in many areas, including for stablecoins & gas fees.

However, it fails to eliminate capital gains tax on everyday bitcoin payments.

A de minimis must capture small digital asset payments to provide relief people need.

Why is this so important? ↓

[The Information Rights Project @theinforights]

“The war on whistleblowers must end.”
Julian Assange on why journalists must not be punished for exposing the crimes of the powerful.

[Bitcoin.com News @BitcoinNews]

🎙️"WikiLeaks using Bitcoin out of necessity was incredible because it found an immediate use case at a global scale," says @jack Dorsey at #Bitcoin 2026.

Dorsey noted, one of Satoshi's final messages on Bitcoin Talk "was around the advancements of WikiLeaks using Bitcoin."💬

[Bitcoin Magazine @BitcoinMagazine]

JUST IN: Jack Dorsey is helping launch a new film on #Bitcoin pioneer and freedom fighter Julian Assange 👀

"THEY TRIED TO BLOCK WIKILEAKS' FINANCIAL ACCESS. BUT THEY COULDN'T BLOCK BITCOIN." 🔥

[Jules Dern @ImpertinentJuls]

https://t.co/IVYuNvL6k7

[WearThePeace @WearThePeaceCo]

An Iranian music teacher plays one final song in his destroyed school that was bombed by Israel and the U.S, in order to not have the last sound be that of missiles and war.

[Jonas Schnelli @_jonasschnelli_]

Iran demanding $BTC for Hormuz tolls proves it: censorship-resistance IS the intrinsic value.

- USD? Frozen by SWIFT.
- Yuan? Beijing's control.
- Stables? Issuer blacklists.
- Gold? Try emailing it.

Bitcoin is the only truly unstoppable, neutral money on earth.

[Antiwar.com @Antiwarcom]

US Satellite Firm Blacks Out Iran War Images Per US Government Request
by Alan Mosley
@AlanMosleyTV @planet #Iran #IranWar
https://t.co/QSRvKxmZJa

[Abubaker Abed @AbubakerAbedW]

The bill has been approved. Israeli prisons will turn into guillotines for Palestinians.

Hundreds will be executed in the next few weeks. 9300 hostages now in Israeli custody.

Dark day for humanity. Unforgettable memory in the Palestinian cause history.

[Secular Talk ([email protected]) @KyleKulinski]

People have no idea how close we are to nuclear annihilation.

[Center on Conscience & War @CCW4COs]

The immoral war on Iran will not be the end.

[Quds News Network @QudsNen]

NEW |Spain has received the first Palestinian ambassador after Madrid officially recognized the State of Palestine.

[Joziah Thayer @Zer0owl]

The partnership between the US & Israel was codified into law in 2008. The US must maintain Israel's "regional supremacy", not a policy decision, its the law.

We must work TOGETHER as a People to change this law.

At this point, it is a moral imperative

https://t.co/kTKc304eE1

[Bark @barkmeta]

Realizing we went from “America First” to “Americans be careful everywhere on Earth” in about 3 weeks