Apple’s Monopoly App Store Tax Coming to Crypto?

The iPhone maker wants a 30% cut of gas fees from NFT transfers in Coinbase Wallet.

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ABOUT

This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io, Circle and Kraken.

On today’s episode, we catch up on the crypto industry, including:

Apple’s dust-up with Coinbase around fees for NFT transfers
Stripe’s new fiat-to-crypto tooling for developers
Fidelity opens retail trading of bitcoin and ether
First U.S. hearing on FTX

“The Breakdown” is written, produced by and features Nathaniel Whittemore aka NLW, with editing by Rob Mitchell and research by Scott Hill. Jared Schwartz is our executive producer and our theme music is “Countdown” by Neon Beach. Music behind our sponsors today is "Back To The End" by Strength To Last. Image credit: Pablo Monsalve/Getty Images, modified by CoinDesk. Join the discussion at discord.gg/VrKRrfKCz8.

HOST

Nathaniel Whittemore

NLW is an independent strategy and communications consultant for leading crypto companies as well as host of The Breakdown – the fastest-growing podcast in crypto. Whittemore has been a VC with Learn Capital, was on the founding team of Change.org, and founded a program design center at his alma mater Northwestern University that helped inspire the largest donation in the school’s history.