[coldcode]

Why is this even on HN, this is a non story. What next, a story on people tossing their phones because Flappy Bird is too hard? What Apple does or not do when a app breaks the rules is not really hacker news I want to read and I'm an iOS developer.

[bdhe]

I think you're missing the bigger picture. This is not just about an app breaking rules. It is a story about how bitcoin, something that was virtually unheard of just a few years back, is now able to rile up people's emotions. This points to, at least in part, how serious people are taking this thing and raises several questions. 1) Is this something that was the doing of the developers of the app to gain publicity? We often see stories on HN about other apps being banned by the lines of Apple/Google and there's little recourse but to raise a PR stink. 2) How the owners of bitcoin, and a community like /r/bitcoin has really vested interests in keeping bitcoin popular because of how much it has become an investment vehicle over a means of currency.

[sanswork]

I'd say 2 is the bigger issue. I can't say how sick I am of seeing people recommend bitcoin as a solution for every problem when 99% of the time it will not help at all.

"I'm having issues with chargebacks on my service, how can I lower chargebacks?"

"Use bitcoin no chargebacks!" (Thanks, but that doesn't help with the majority of people who want to use credit cards)

"Which cc processor should I use?"

"Use bitcoin! It has almost no cost unlike credit cards" (Thanks, but that doesn't help my problem and you're ignoring the costs/difficulty of putting money into and pulling money out of bitcoin).

etc, etc.

The community as a whole seems bent on spamming it everywhere at the moment and I am seeing a lot more backlash to it in various online forums I frequent.