The manufacturer of mobile phones taiwanese HTC launched this weekend the cheaper version of its smartphone, Exodus 1, that allows you to run an entire node of the blockchain of Bitcoin. This means that users will be able to negotiate easily their cryptocurrencies without leaving the wallet of your teléfono.De according to a report published on Saturday, 19 October in the website of Forbes, HTC launched this new “crypto phone” Exodus 1s, during a conference Lightning from Berlin. In detail, the device is presented with a wallet of hardware add-on that allows users to store, share, send, receive, buy and sell Bitcoin.The electronics giant taiwanese HTC stressed that, unlike other smart phones that are compatible with blockchains, Exodus 1s can store all transactions in the chain of blocks of Bitcoin (technically, each HTC Exodus 1 is a node). In this way, users can perform transactions with BTC directly, without the need of a bank, a home for the change of cryptocurrencies or other intermediary.They knew besides that the device is on sale for a price of USD 233, and the users would corresponding to buy a micro SD card of 400 GB to store a copy of the blockchain of Bitcoin.The director of Decentralization of HTC, Phil Chen, stressed that the idea of these mobile phone models that have emerged due to the interest of the company to build devices related to the architecture of Bitcoin, and make this technology available to the greatest number of people.Reported that the phones in Exodus 1 and 1s can contain multiple cryptocurrencies, including bitcoin, ethereum, litecoin and binance coin. He explained that each of these assets has its own ledger, although the model 1 does not have the ability to run an entire node to assets other than bitcoin at this time.Chen emphasized may be possible in the future the nodes full for other assets, to the extent that the computing power and the availability of storage continues to rise, becoming less expensive and more accessible. He noted, however, that Bitcoin is the main focus of HTC in this effort, the current mobile node full.
We’ll learn a lot, how people will run this on mobile devices. This is the first time that people will be able to run a node bitcoin full in mobile devices. Would work on a daily basis. Certainly we will learn a lot about how people interact with bitcoin, what will you do with an entire node, and we want to apply those learnings to other future chains of blocks public.Phil Chen, director of Decentralization of HTC
Chen had already announced in the month of last may that HTC was working on a cheaper version of Exodus. On that occasion, he stressed that the model would be targeted at users from the emerging economies and to those persons who are entered in the criptomundo, who will have easier access to the technology of Bitcoin, with an affordable price.