Dudes. Blockchain. Inwards A Phone. It's Gonna Smasher The 'Commoditization Of Humanity' Or Something

From The Register:

Crypto lush HTC claims gizmo volition hold upwardly an 'agent of decentralization'

Strategy Boutique
So it wasn't a joke. HTC today vowed to launch its "Blockchain Phone", which it calls an "agent of decentralization".

HTC confirmed overnight that the Exodus smartphone volition send inwards its 3rd quarter – meaning around fourth dimension earlier the halt of September – without releasing specifications. Or fifty-fifty what advantages it promises for the owner.

It's the brainchild of VC Phil Chen, who likewise equally managing Li Ka-shing's coin at Horizons Ventures*, has returned to mastermind the initiatory at HTC, rejoicing inwards the project championship "Decentralized Chief Officer". HTC is featherbrained near the possibilities of putting a crypto wallet inwards a mobe, as well as makes an impressive bid to walk off alongside the Strategy Boutique trophy 2018. The aspirational statements boundary out at us similar salmon trying to larn home.

"This is simply the start of HTC helping to scrap the commoditization of humanity," the press unloosen tells us. Like a teenage libertarian having his get-go few bottles of Thunderbird, HTC discovers that all thoughts collide.

"Context as well as pregnant are beingness destroyed past times copyright as well as privacy laws that were written for a bygone era," an assertion that sadly isn't supported, or returned to. Yet at the same fourth dimension HTC purports to desire to assist creators, past times staging "a platform as well as distribution channel for creatives who brand unique digital goods".

"We empathize the potential of digital scarcity as well as uniqueness. With Exodus, HTC aims to hold upwardly a full general blockchain property marketplace," said Chen. "We believe at that spot is a epitome shift as well as the pendulum is swinging dorsum to ownership as well as the value of content."...MORE

We'll hold upwardly dorsum alongside the reading comprehension as well as retentivity examination afterward on.