THELOGICALINDIAN - UK startup Bitwalking whose app allows users to accomplish cryptocurrency by artlessly walking ispartnering with Nokia on a cryptobased fundraising drive
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Bitwalking CEO: Nokia Partnership ‘Vote of Confidence’
The Nokia-sponsored Walk for Cause accident will run in bike with the Futurecom Conference in Sao Paulo, October 17–20. Participants will accumulate Bitwalking’s token, walking dollars (W$), which Nokia will catechumen to USD and accord to charity.
In a press release, Bitwalking CEO Nissan Bahar declared Nokia’s advancing on lath as a “vote of confidence.”
“This vote of aplomb from Nokia is an important footfall in acumen Bitwalking’s eyes and plan,” he said. “Bitwalking is a bill for all, and in the accepted apple landscape, technology on its own is not abundant to ability everyone.”
The Bitwalking app lets users accumulate W$ by walking or running, which they can again absorb at a committed abundance or a alternative of third parties. They can additionally exchange funds with other users. So far, the app is accessible for Android only, with a beta affairs agreeable users to participate in expansion.
Nokia’s ‘Sustainability Vision’ And Crypto
The Nokia affiliation aims to drive amusing acquaintance via Walk for Cause, urging users to use Bitwalking’s recently-unveiled Events Platform. The aggregation is additionally campaigning for participants at its Futurecom stall.
“Our sustainability eyes is to invent, design, and arrange technologies that accomplish a absolute aberration to people’s lives and booty albatross for the appulse we can accomplish in the world,” Nokia’s Latin America arch Dimitri Diliani said. “Through this action we will be able to change the action of hundreds of accouchement aloof by accumulation technology and a circadian action for a cause.”
The accommodating companies will accord gain from the accident to bearding recipients in Latin America. They declared them as “educational projects”, accouterment acceptance with computers and Keepod devices.
“The new Bitwalking contest belvedere drives user assurance and activity for amusing good,” Bahar added.
Nokia’s two-year ancestor aggregation Microsoft is no drifter to Blockchain experimentation. The IT behemothic has and continues to avant-garde a bulk of projects. Together with its added partnerships, it aims to aggrandize the technology’s integration.
Whether Nokia will itself attending to aggrandize its accord in the cryptocurrency acreage charcoal unknown. The artificial banking bearings since Microsoft’s takeover is palpable, with a $950 billion write-off and agents job losses aloof the latest step in what is widely apparent as an bootless acquisition.
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