Fortnite: Now payments with Monero (XMR)

the The year 2019 begins with a headline for the Privacy Coin is Monero: From now on, Fortnite Fans can pay for their Merchandise at the official Online Store, with XMR.

By Alex Roos
At the 2. January 2019ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInxingemail

The Internet brings a lot of phenomena to the world. In addition to countless Memes also enjoy computer games to the extreme popularity of World of Warcraft, League of Legends, or Recently, Fortnite. Millions are drawn into the spell. Just Fortnite managed in the last year to be within a very short time one of the most popular games of all times.

With Project Coral Reef to the Monero-adaptation

in 2017, called Riccardo "fluffy pony" Spagni with Project Coral Reef Initiative for the Monero-adaptation to life. The goal was to establish Monero as a means of payment. Integrated Project Coral Reef Monero in over 50 Online Stores of well-known music artist. One of the party of prominent artists such as Sia, A Perfect Circle, Slayer, and The Lumineers, and many more. As a result, customers can pay now with Monero. Will handled the purchase via Spagni’s payment provider Globee.

increasing the number of acceptance and use Moneros. On the other hand, the Initiative also makes the Non-crypto-experts on the crypto-currency's attention.

The official Fortnite Merchandise Store accepts Monero

at the beginning of the year Spagni welcomed a new member in the Project-Coral-Reef-family: the official Fortnite Merch Store.

Too cool: the Fortnite merch store (https://t.co/KNL4IFCFHk) lets you pay in Monero, so now you can purchase that sweet Durrr Burger onesie without your friends / family / coworkers judging you. https://t.co/XYs1NjGvGp

Riccardo Spagni (@fluffy pony) January 1, 2019

During Checkout have the Option for the buyer now with Monero a more. So the Monero Ecosystem receives a large dealer.

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Although the Globee also supports currencies other Crypto like Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ethereum, and Ripple, are these payment options at the Fortnite Store is not available. The Integration in the framework of the Project Coral Reef exclusively for Monero.

The acceptance of Monero’s rises with it. However, it must be acknowledged that it is just a Merchandise Store. Whether the Mainstream adaptation can be achieved remains questionable. The next big step will be the Integration of Monero within a computer game, for example, for the purchase of In-Game Cosmetics such as Skins would be more likely. This would be conceivable also in combination with Tari, the digital Asset Protocol on Monero.