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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...

According to the CEO of Nillion, “decentralization is a spectrum with multiple axes.” Decentralization via blockchain technology has given rise to several applications such as cryptocurrency, nonfungible tokens (NFTs), decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), decentralized finance (DeFi), and many more use cases. However, the future of decentralization may very well extend beyond blockchain technology. Nillion, an internet infrastructure platform based on cryptography, has developed a technology called Nil Message Compute (NMC), which changes how data is stored, processed and decentralized. This new technology could have important implications for how companies and users pursue decentralization as an ethos. When asked how de central ization without blockchains was possible, the CEO of Nillion, Alex Page, explained how NMC based-technology takes arbitrary data, transforms and fragments it, and then distributes the resulting particles across a network of nodes.  "The nodes ...