Google blocks cryptocurrency miners from Play store

Google has updated its Play store policies to make it safer for Android users, with its new guidelines blocking cryptocurrency mining tools and apps that it believes could endanger children.

The company released its revamped documentation last week to try and clamp down on illegal and questionable practices, stipulating that although apps managing crypto mining are allowed, those that encourage people to use the digital currency mining apps are now banned.

“We don’t allow apps that mine cryptocurrency on devices. We permit apps that remotely manage the mining of cryptocurrency,” the updated rules read. So tools that manage crypto-miners are allowed, but not the mining tools themselves. It comes after Google banned miners from the Chrome Web Store earlier this year, when it blamed “malicious software developers” who tried to “abuse the platform at the expense of users”, according to EnGadget.

Additionally, Google has stated it won’t allow apps aimed at children that…