Bitcoin phone home: Use crypto to buy sim cards in 140 countries with Bitrefill
Bitcoin and crypto travelers can bid farewell to telco woes with Bitrefill’s eSims, now available in 140 countries. A partnership between crypto e-commerce platform Bitrefill and eSIM Go enables crypto users to buy eSIMs in 140 countries worldwide. Crypto advocates can now swap crypto for data at the checkout, using Bitcoin (BTC), the Bitcoin Lightning Network, Ether(ETH) and stablecoins like Tether (USDT). The move makes it easier to live on crypto and travel the world. Bitrefill founder and CEO Sergej Kotliar shed light on the new development via email: “Everyone who uses data on their phone is a potential customer [...]. Right now, we’re directing it at travelers — many crypto users [who] travel the world either live as digital nomads or travel for conferences and such.” Kotliar added in the press release that the process for buying eSims with crypto is straightforward: “You can just get an e-SIM from the airplane wifi, install it in a minute, and be online from the moment yo