Silent Link is run by a ride or die freak and accepts bitcoin using btcpay server. Requires no ID info, not even an email address.
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Thanks I'm pretty sure that's the one I heard about! Zap incoming! ⚡
Thank Odell 🤟⚡️
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So sick. How long has this service even been around? I’m confused as to how this can even exist.
About a year, I go deep with him in this conversation if you are interested in learning more: https://www.podpage.com/citadeldispatch/cd77-privacy-focused-mobile-phone-esims-using-silent-link/
My personal experience in Mexico (on two separate trips) trying it on an iPhone 13 has been hit or miss. I couldn’t get it to grab signal despite many restarts and attempting different carriers manually. Eventually it connected after a day of fiddling, but if I needed to restart the phone, it was back to square one.
I eventually gave up and just bought a cheap local SIM card that worked like a champ.
Another note, if you’re using graphene os on android, you must install google play services to use Esim, so that’s why I tried it on an iPhone.
Maybe I’m the anomaly though!
I learned about silent.link from CD77. Very exciting project. Looks like (for low usage) the data price can be quite decent as well in certain areas.
One issue I have with it is that you'd ideally have to use this on a phone whose IMEIs are not tied to your identity (so no KYC SIMs ever used on it).
They said on CD77 that the physical-SIM and eSIM IMEIs are different and thus the network operator cannot easily link these, but from what I've seen, the two IMEIs seem to be adjacent (apart from the final Luhn checksum digit), e.g:
- 004101846898885
- 004101846898893
So it seems they would be trivially linkable.
Are there devices where these IMEIs are at least somewhat unrelated?
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