HTC Ready To Release Blockchain Mobile Phone This Year

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Blockhain-based mobile phone market that is still fairly quiet will start enlivened by HTC.

As known in mid-May, HTC announced that they are working on a blockchain based mobile phone project called Exodus. Now, the Taiwanese company is scheduling smartphone besutannya it appears at the end of this year.

This was revealed by Phil Chen, Chief Content Officer of HTC. He also revealed that the price of the device will be announced in the upcoming Q3. Slightly leaked, he claimed the banderol will compete with Finney, the world's first blockchain smartphone made by Sirin Labs that valued USD 1,000.

"I would say that Exodus will be available anywhere outside of China, it will be even harder to present in China because this country has different rules in everything from how Android works in China"

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Although he has not been able to spell out the specifications, Chen said that Exodus will have a wallet feature in it. Then, in the long run, he hopes to find a more efficient way to mine cryptocurrency in mobile devices. HTC was scheduled to release an official report related to this year.

In addition, the co-founder of HTC Vive explained that it has been holding CryptoKitties, a video game based on blockchain. In this game, players can buy, maintain, and sell a variety of virtual cats, similar to some sort of trading activity in digital currencies.

Cooperation is expected to lure gamers and people who are less familiar with cryptocurrency to glance at Exodus. According to him, gaming is the most accessible sector of mobile devices.

Chen admitted that the project got attention after Bitcoin prices soared and nearly touched USD 20,000 at the end of last year. Now, with so much fraud and theft of virtual currency, he ensures that Exodus will be the safest wallet-planted device.

This blockchain-based mobile phone from HTC is also becoming the next weapon in increasing sales. In the first quarter of this year, the company headquartered in New Taipei City is only shipping 630,000 thousand products. In fact, in the first quarter of 2017, they can ship more than 2 million products.