14 DAY TRIAL // Anthony Di Iorio, founder of Jaxx, a crypto-currency wallet, claims that an Apple representative revealed to him, during a private phone conversation, the six crypto-currencies allowed on the App Store.
Di Iorio says that Apple is comfortable approving apps on its App Store that handle only six crypto-currencies: Bitcoin, Dogecoin, Litecoin, Ethereum, the DAO, and Ripple.
An Apple employee supposedly provided the information
Di Iorio had this conversation with the Apple employee after the company asked him to remove support for the Dash crypto-currency from his Jaxx app.
During the conversation, Di Iorio asked what crypto-currencies Apple approves of so that he'd know what to remove from Jaxx's iOS version and avoid future problems with his app on the App Store.
After discovering Apple's crypto-currencies preference, Di Iorio tweeted out the answer he received to the crypto-currency community. Di Iorio said he planned to remove Dash functionality from Jaxx in a future version.
The crypto-currency community doesn't like Apple's strict rules
Reaction to Apple's list of approved crypto-currencies hasn't been positive, at least on Twitter. Most users have criticized Apple's decision to limit the list to only six, which they consider might thwart the evolution of other, less-known crypto-currencies.
Vitalik Buterin, one of the people who built the Ethereum crypto-currency along with Di Iorio, wasn't very happy about Apple's limited list of digital currencies either, even if the currency he created was listed.
"For the record: despite being a beneficiary of this instance of (private) regulatory protectionism, I oppose it," Buterin tweeted.
Softpedia has reached out to Apple to confirm the information sent out in Di Iorio's tweets. We'd love to hear your opinions. What other crypto-currencies Apple should support?
UPDATE: An earlier version of the article said Apple removed Jaxx from the App Store. This was incorrect. Apple only told Di Iorio to remove Dash support.