The Exodus 1, from Taiwanese origin manufacturer HTC, will be the first mobile device that can be purchased through bitcoin cryptocurrencies.
The manufacturer said that the goal of the new phone is to work as a hardware wallet to store cryptocurrencies, according to information released by the newspaper Infobae.
According to statements made by Phil Chen, HTC's decentralized general manager to CNBC, "the importance of integrating blockchain technology in the phone is that it reinforces the security and privacy of a user's assets, and in the future will help protect the data and the identity of a client. "
According to the executive, "the most valuable companies in the world today are Google and Facebook, and in China, Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent, because they basically own all our data," he said.