Google continues to "please" its users with changes in the policy of using popular services, as well as delisting popular applications. This time, the good corporation decided to remove one of the most popular applications for payments in the BitPay crypto currency.
Bitpay is a well-known provider of services with a high level of trust, which allows businesses and traders who use the currency to make crypto-currency payments.
So easily and without any explanation, Google is depriving more than 100 thousand of its users of a convenient and proven service. According to information from the Play Market, the BitPay application was downloaded more than 100,000 times and received a huge number of positive reviews on average 4.5 points out of 5.
The BitPay page did not contain any notifications of maintenance or any services, there were also no reports of burglary and security breaches, so the decision to exclude from Google Play was taken unilaterally by Google and without prior notice to users who might have incurred financial losses and probably some of them suffered. In addition, the reputation of the company, which it earned for many years, was undermined. People began to seriously think about whether it is safe to store funds in BitPay's wallets.
Despite Bitpay's silence, Roger Ver said that Google could remove the application, due to the recent ban on mining programs, although how could they accept a crypto-currency purse for an application for crypto currency?
Judging by the gradual monetization of their traditionally free services, the good corporation increases its economic efficiency and gradually clears the prospective niche from competitors, promoting in return its own applications.