Really? "Unlicensed" Bitcoin wallets? What's that? Where can I get a license to be allowed to create a random number? At the Ministry of Coin Flips?
/sarcasm
wallet account approved by their government at a centralized exchange.
/sarcasm
It seems that we have no reason to panic, for now, as Google themselves have clarified that non-custodial wallets are not included in their policy.
You may want to add this to the OP.I would even go as far as saying when people were downloading wallets from the centralized google store, it was a loss of decentralization and when they shut down it can be categorized as a win.
What we need to reach better security in the decentralized world are these 3:
1. 100% open source software
2. Reproducible/deterministic builds
3. Signed binaries
Except for, when downloading that on your Android phone, it's more complicated to install than a click in the Play Store. I tried installing custom (Youtube) software on an Android mediabox, and it worked but took a lot of time. But after a few weeks, when I needed an update, I had to manually do all that again (and gave up). The average Android user isn't going to manually do that, they'll just go for the centralized What we need to reach better security in the decentralized world are these 3:
1. 100% open source software
2. Reproducible/deterministic builds
3. Signed binaries
Pray that we still have personal computers and linux which we can modify in any way we want.
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Google doesn't even want that as they are killing adblock software with their new chrome browser.
Luckily, there are other browsers out there. Google is in the business of earning money from ads, they abandoned their "don't be evil" a long time ago.Quote
Soon they will enforce computers on us which we can't modify in any way just like their cell phones I am afraid.
Let them try!