Retail Row, the merchandise store for the web video game Fortnite, has started “exclusively” accepting Monero (XMR) as a cryptocurrency payment option, Monero tweeted January. 1.
Fortnite is a web video game released in July 2017 and developed by Epic Games, that reportedly accounts for over 125 million players worldwide. In October 2018, Epic Games was valued at over $15 billion in its latest funding spherical.
Retail Row supports crypto payments service GloBee, that allows retailers to simply accept cryptocurrencies as well as Bitcoin (BTC), Litecoin (LTC) and Ripple (XRP), whereas XMR is that the solely digital currency supported by the store. Customers also can make payments with a range of standard methods as well as credit cards and PayPal.
As Top Market Group reported in Oct, cybersecurity firm Malwarebytes found that scammers were using malware targeting the Bitcoin (BTC) wallet addresses of Fortnite gamers. “Con artists” were supposedly sneaking malicious data theft code into downloads that apparently promised “free” season six Fortnite android versions, among different “bogus cheats, wallhacks and aimbots.”
Free V-Bucks (an in-game currency) conjointly concealed malicious packages of code, as per the investigation. Malwarebytes discovered that deceptive links were promoted via scammers’ YouTube channels, that redirected users to downloads that conceal the malware.
In June, network and enterprise security company Palo Alto Networks found that around 5 % of all XMR in circulation was well-mined maliciously via cryptojacking. Monero reportedly had AN “incredible monopoly” on the cryptocurrencies targeted by malware, with a complete of $175 million well-mined maliciously.
The report conjointly notes that the info doesn't include web-based Monero miners or different miners they may not access, that means that the 5 % is possibly too low of a calculation.
XMR is up 3.27 % on the day and is trading at $47.46 at press time, as per TopMarketCap.
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