Bitcoin and lightning have just done something fiat couldn’t for me

My mom flown all the way from Asia to Europe to see me this morning. She has a prepaid phone with some money in it. All the money got burned the moment she landed because she forgot to turn off data roaming.

She couldn’t recharge the phone as she’s super low tech and now in a foreign country. Luckily, a fellow traveler texted me to let me know she couldn’t contact me at all, not even receiving international calls because the phone is out of cash for roaming.

I went onto bitrefill, chose Vietnam, her mobile provider, input her phone number and recharged her phone with 40k satoshi using Muun wallet. All within 2 minutes. I couldn’t have done this with my credit card because the Asian service provider wouldn’t have accepted my European credit card. I didn’t want to jump through their KYC hoops either. Didn’t have to with bitrefill.

Thank you Bitcoin and lightning developers and community for making communication possible for me and my mom today!

Bitcoin is for global citizens.



Submitted October 30, 2021 at 01:37PM by JunoKat https://ift.tt/31a8mhL

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