Bitcoin phone home: Use crypto to buy sim cards in 140 countries with Bitrefill

A concern betwixt crypto e-commerce level Bitrefill and eSIM Go enables crypto users to bargain eSIMs successful 140 countries worldwide.

Crypto advocates tin present swap crypto for information astatine the checkout, utilizing Bitcoin (BTC), the Bitcoin Lightning Network, Ether(ETH) and stablecoins similar Tether (USDT). The determination makes it easier to unrecorded connected crypto and question the world.

Bitrefill laminitis and CEO Sergej Kotliar shed airy connected the caller improvement via email:

“Everyone who uses information connected their telephone is simply a imaginable lawsuit [...]. Right now, we’re directing it astatine travelers — galore crypto users [who] question the satellite either unrecorded arsenic integer nomads oregon question for conferences and such.”

Kotliar added successful the property merchandise that the process for buying eSims with crypto is straightforward:

“You tin conscionable get an e-SIM from the airplane wifi, instal it successful a minute, and beryllium online from the infinitesimal your level touches down connected the tarmac, without worrying astir getting a monolithic astonishment measure from your telco.”

Founded successful 2014, Bitrefill enables crypto users and advocates to unrecorded connected Bitcoin by purchasing acquisition cards. The latest integration targets travelers and holidaymakers seeking to debar touching fiat wealth outgo rails.

Living connected Bitcoin, adjacent successful the astir Bitcoin-friendly destinations, specified arsenic El Salvador, tin inactive beryllium challenging. For example, Cointelegraph newsman Joe Hall failed to unrecorded solely connected Bitcoin portion investigating Bitcoin adoption successful the country.

One of the pitfalls was trying to bargain telephone credit. Hall required the assistance of a Salvadoran section to load up his telephone with mobile data.

Screenshot of the Bitrefill eSIM for El Salvador. Source: Cointelegraph

Now, with the Bitrefill integration, Bitcoin advocates making the pilgrimage to El Salvador tin bargain information with Bitcoin the infinitesimal they link to WiFi astatine San Salvador airport.

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Competitor Silent.Link offers an anonymous eSim for travelers funny successful paying successful Bitcoin oregon Monero (XMR), portion telecommunications supplier MoreMins besides accepts payments successful crypto for its information services.

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