"Apple Inc.’s ouster of popular Bitcoin app Blockchain from its App Store is causing a backlash, and some are going to extreme measures to show their displeasure.
Apple has been acting to suppress Bitcoin apps for years.
Bitcoins exist only as software, and transactions are completed via computing devices. Even though no physical currency exists, merchants from car dealers and Web stores are accepting the digital money. Mobile apps such as Coinbase, which was removed from the App Store last year, and Blockchain have become a popular way to make payments.
Blockchain had been downloaded 120,000 times before being removed. Apple has already shut out several other applications that facilitate digital-money payments from its online store."