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
This is such and embarrassment @SSRugby . The whole world used your incorrect broadcast image to announce the @Springboks have won the U/20 Rugby Championship. The commentators also used it. Sigh
Our Oz under 20’s suffered their second defeat in the U/20 Rugby Championship after being thoroughly outplayed by South Africa 56-17 - 8 tries to 3. Discipline was an issue for Oz with 3 yellow cards in the first half & 2 of SA’s 8 tries were penalty tries.
In the other match Argentina beat NZ.
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@LouisNel If I use my bitcoin to purchase stuff, let's say at a retail store and if I keep on doing this for a year, which part of my bitcoin was/is CGT?
I have not sold bitcoin or have I?
Politicians are more trouble than they're worth, really.
There are far better ways to organize our society than believing politicians are necessary.
I've worked with politicians, trust me, they are trash. The least power given to them, the better.