[Thread] Coinbase says Apple “blocked our last” Wallet iOS app release until the exchange disabled sending NFTs, claiming Apple wanted a 30% cut from gas fees (@coinbasewallet)

Ann-Marie Alcántara / Wall Street Journal:
A look at Gas, an iOS app that lets teens “gas up each other”; Data.AI: Gas had 500K+ downloads since August launch, despite being limited to a few US states  —  Gas is topping Apple’s App Store charts despite being limited to a handful of states  —  TBH was hot.

Mat Di Salvo / Decrypt:
Coinbase says Coinbase Wallet will no longer support Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum Classic, Ripple XRP, and Stellar due to “low usage”, starting January 2023  —  America’s biggest crypto exchange has scrapped a number of assets from its self-custody mobile app citing waning customer interest.

Cade Metz / New York Times:
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi testifies in ex-CSO Joe Sullivan’s trial that he fired Sullivan in 2017 because he “could not trust his judgment anymore”  —  Dara Khosrowshahi is a star witness at the trial of Joe Sullivan, who has been accused of obstructing justice for failing to disclose the 2016 breach.

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch:
WhatsApp begins rolling out a Message Yourself feature, letting users send notes, reminders, and shopping lists to themselves  —  WhatsApp has started rolling out a feature to let you chat with yourself.  Sending messages to your own account can be a way to keep a piece of information easily accessible …

Kate Clark / The Information:
Bessemer Venture Partners raised $4.6B for two new funds in August: $3.85B for young startups, the firm’s biggest fund to date, and $780M for PE buyouts  —  Venture capitalists aren’t striking many deals with tech founders these days.  Initial public offerings are nonexistent and public tech stocks …

Kate Irwin / Decrypt:
Meta is letting select Instagram US creators test a toolkit for minting NFTs and selling them on and off the platform, and says it won’t charge fees until 2024  —  Instagram will soon have NFT creation and trading tools built in, but in-app purchases will be “subject to applicable app store fees.”