Bitrefill Offers Cheapest US Airtime Remittance Service
Digital currency companies Bitrefill and Celery have partnered to provide the cheapest mobile airtime remittance service from the US. Users can send instant mobile airtime remittances to over 100 countries. Bitrefill has also announced their free airtime remittance service to India. Sergej Kotliar, Bitrefill founder and CEO, shared the news publicly on March 23, 2015 at the annual International Money Transfer Conference in Las Vegas, NV. Bitrefill is a global prepaid phone service that allows users to refill or “top up” prepaid mobile phones with bitcoin. Currently, Bitrefill works with....
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Bitrefill allows you to top-up mobile airtime in more than 100 countries and 425 mobile networks. Bitcoin companies Bitrefill and Celery have announced a partnership that will enable users based in the US to send instant mobile airtime to mobile subscribers in more than 100 countries around the world. The partnership was announced at the International Money Transfer Conference held on Tuesday March 23rd, 2015. How It Works. A sender who wants to top up a mobile phone in any of the more than 400 supported networks in 113 countries will log on to the Bitrefill website, and check if the....
Bitcoin airtime merchant, Bitrefill, has partnered with New York-based Bitcoin exchange Celery to enable bitcoin remittances of phone minutes to more than 100 countries - without the sender ever having to touch the digital currency. "The integration uses all of the benefits of Bitcoin but hides the complexities from the user, just uses Bitcoin as settlement rails," said Celery CEO IIya Subkhankulov. The process does not require a user to buy bitcoin or handle the digital currency. Airtime purchases made from Celery's exchange take the money straight from the person's bank account, similar....
Bitrefill is connecting bitcoin to the second-most modern form of electronic money — prepaid phone credits. The service lets users punch in their mobile number, select the amount they wish to add, and then pay in bitcoin. But more importantly, phone credits are the only digital form of currency many unbanked people, which total over 2 billion across the globe, are familiar with. Connecting bitcoin to prepaid bills creates lots of interesting possibilities, like remittances and payouts. Furthermore, it also “anchors the value of bitcoin to something concrete in many countries where there....
A startup called Bitrefill wants to let people top up their mobile phone credit with bitcoin in more than a hundred countries around the world. Bitrefill's website lets users punch in a mobile number, select the amount of credit they wish to add and then pay in bitcoin. The service's founder Sergej Kotliar said that his platform, which started two weeks ago, allows users to top-up their phones without having to travel to a local convenience store to buy credit. Kotliar said: "We do exactly what a local 7-Eleven would do in that country. They have a terminal integrated with similar types of....
Bitrefill is a mobile top up service that allows people to purchase additional minutes on their pre-paid phones with bitcoin. The company services a wide range of mobile operators, including AT&T and Verizon. The company is a graduate of the Boost VC accelerator, having entered the program in January 2015 and began operating on a bootstrap model. Recently, the company was featured on Product Hunt, a popular website that showcases various different products and services that can be found across the Internet. In operation for a year and a half, Bitrefill currently services customers in 91....