Those who rode the Bitcoin boom early have extra reason to be jolly this season after the leading crypto coin’s price has ballooned twenty-fold in a year.
In the spirit of the season, here’s a list of creative crypto-themed Christmas (or belated Hanukkah) gifts to spread good cheer and fortune.
Crypto Kitties
On a platform created by Canadian startup Axiom Zen, CryptoKitties run amok the Ethereum network like blockchain-based Tamagotchi pets or Neko Atsume. The 4 billion cute tradeable virtual pets, which breed to create blockchain-based spawn with unique cattributes, are a new, quirky way to store ether and have brewed a $12 million market. They’re so popular they have reportedly taken up to 15% of the Ethereum network traffic, and people are spending up to six figures on these tokenized felines.
It’s certainly the cutest crypto Christmas gift on this list, if not a bit risky if the cat fever subsides. (For more tech-savvy cat gift ideas, click here.)
Bitcoin Socks
As cuddly as those digital kitties look, sometimes you need a gift to warm you up offline. South Korea-based Kimchi Socks has merch that nods to all manner of coins, from Bitcoin to Dogecoin, on sale through Amazon and various crypto platforms including All Things Decentral.
Ugly Sweater Season
Wish your friends a Happy Cryptoxmas with shirts, sweaters, phone and laptop cases and more designed by Cryptogeek at Tee Republic.
For ugly sweater traditionalists, HODLMOON offers the gamut of coin-themed outerwear including Bitcoin, Ethereum and Litecoin. You can even suggest a new coin or customize a design.
Crypto Art
Crypto Art aims to be both aesthetic and functional. Acting as a paper wallet, it stores a Bitcoin token into the fine art print, adding physical value to the artwork and the security of storing the token offline in case your computer or phone is hacked or lost.
Artist Cryptograffiti creates bold, innovative artworks layered with metaphors and materials such as repurposed credit cards, money transfer terms and conditions, Raspberry Pi, and e-ink.
Decentralized Art Shows, meanwhile, is a project that allows Bitcoin users to buy local art via virtually streamed art shows.
Crypto Wallets
For the more practical crypto-themed gift, a hardware wallet is meant to be the ultimate protection against online threats to your crypto hold.
Crypto Steel is a sleekly designed hardware wallet that allows you to store 96 digits of any code, password or even haiku in a fireproof, waterproof steel case. If your house goes up in flames, your code will still be safe. It could be used to pass wealth down the generations.
It can be used as a backup to more connective wallets such as Trezor, a widely trusted, simplistic device with a micro USB port, two buttons and simple display screen. Jazz it up with a sleek leather case.
Ledger is another trusted brand, and its Nano S holds multiple cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ethereum and Zcash. Plugging into the computer’s USB port, it has an OLED display to confirm each transaction with a tap of its side buttons.
For the more hardcore gift, help them set up a custom mining rig with Room Mining to join the network of computers that validate the blockchain’s transactions. They earn money while they mine, making it the gift that keeps on giving.
Holiday Cards
If all this is too much clutter, a simple card will do. Give the gift of crypto with a greeting card - doubling as a paper wallet from All Things Decentral loaded with your currency of choice.
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