{"id":151668,"date":"2022-12-02T07:26:53","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T13:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/crypto-exchange-coinbase-says-apple-has-shut-down-the-ability-for-users-to-send-nfts-because-it-cant-collect-the-30-in-app-fee"},"modified":"2022-12-02T07:26:53","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T13:26:53","slug":"crypto-exchange-coinbase-says-apple-has-shut-down-the-ability-for-users-to-send-nfts-because-it-cant-collect-the-30-in-app-fee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/crypto-exchange-coinbase-says-apple-has-shut-down-the-ability-for-users-to-send-nfts-because-it-cant-collect-the-30-in-app-fee","title":{"rendered":"Crypto exchange Coinbase says Apple has shut down the ability for users to send NFTs because it can\u2019t collect the 30% in-app fee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/crypto-exchange-coinbase-says-apple-has-shut-down-the-ability-for-users-to-send-nfts-because-it-cant-collect-the-30-in-app-fee.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Apple\u2019s mobile store can typically charge up to 30% commission on in-app purchases, but gas fees don\u2019t occur within the app. Gas fees, which are the charge a user pays to perform a function on a blockchain, keep its network running. Therefore, you can\u2019t pay for gas fees using Apple\u2019s software.<\/p>\n<p>Apple did not immediately respond to Insider\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor anyone who understands how NFTs and blockchains work, this is clearly not possible,\u201d Coinbase said. \u201cApple\u2019s proprietary In-App Purchase system does not support crypto, so we couldn\u2019t comply even if we tried.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple\u2019s mobile store can typically charge up to 30% commission on in-app purchases, but gas fees don\u2019t occur within the app. Gas fees, which are the charge a user pays to perform a function on a blockchain, keep its network running. Therefore, you can\u2019t pay for gas fees using Apple\u2019s software. Apple did not immediately [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3818],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blockchains"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}