Bitcoin users smash their iPhones after Apple bans last Bitcoin wallet from App

[CryptoCurrencyInc.com]

Bitcoin users smash their iPhones after Apple bans last Bitcoin wallet from App Store

Apple has come under fire from the Bitcoin community after the company deleted popular Bitcoin wallet app Blockchain from the App Store without warning. Blockchain was the last remaining Bitcoin wallet available for iOS devices, and some 120,000 people use Blockchain to send and receive Bitcoin, according to the app maker. Now, Bitcoin investors are lashing out at Cupertino by smashing their iPhones on video and opting for Google Nexus 5 handsets.

Early Thursday morning, just hours after Wired first reported the deletion of Blockchain from the App Store, a member of Reddit’s Bitcoin community issued a proposition: “For every 100 upvotes this post receives, I will gift someone a Nexus 5 for a video of them smashing their iPhone.”

The redditor who proposed the tradeoff, “round-peg,” included the following stipulations: Only the first five people to submit videos would receive a Nexus 5; the smashed iPhone had to be of the iPhone 5 or 5S variety, running iOS 7; and the video needed to include the person’s face, name, and reason for deciding to destroy his or her iPhone.

“Your reason should include the fact that Apple is anti-Bitcoin, not just because you want a free trade for a new phone,” wrote round-peg.

Read more: http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/bitcoin-iphone-smash-apple-blockchain/#ixzz2sZtRKkxs

[Bill Bisco]

When bitcoin hits bigger, people aren't going to be wanting an Iphone.

[Buffer Overflow]

Five smashed iPhones does not equal anything, it's actually less than anything.


~BCX~

This is true, will all be forgotten in a week time.

Still working for Apple BitcoinEXpress?

[surebet]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhIz2Dz_KEE&hd=1

[whtchocla7e]

$2500 down the drain.  

You could have traded those phones for Bitcoin. Now that would show them what is more valuable to you...

[exstasie]

$2500 down the drain.  

You could have traded those phones for Bitcoin. Now that would show them what is more valuable to you...

Well there is a website where you can trade your starbucks Gift Cards for Bitcoins (https://cardforcoin.com/)
There needs to be a site called phoneforcoin.com.  I'm sure peopel would be willing to make the trade lol.

[guybrushthreepwood]

$2500 down the drain.  

You could have traded those phones for Bitcoin. Now that would show them what is more valuable to you...

Some people were smashing their phones under the prevision that they were going to get given a free one though, but I think this was a waste otherwise.