Get Yourself an E-Sim for International Roaming Paid For With Hive!

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I wrote about this service for the first time around a year ago before HiveFest Amsterdam. But it's worth showing you again in case you're traveling. Last year I had an iPhone X which was unable to use eSims. Since then I got a new phone and I've been using this product and it has worked pretty reliably here in Israel and in Cyprus (north and south). Next week I'll be using my eSim in Germany and Mexico.

Silent Link is the service and the particular product I'm using is this one called Data.Plus.

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In order to buy it with your Hive or HBD all you do is push on that Blue Flash symbol right between BTC and Monero. Click on that and then on the next page choose copy to grab the long Bolt 11 Invoice (lnbc34....). I suggest you do this on the same mobile device where you'll use the eSim

Silent Link payment

You then copy that over to v4v.app and paste that into the Invoice box.

Paying in v4v.app

Under the green invoice, you'll see buttons to use Hive Keychain or Hive Authentication Services.

NEW FEATURE - Payment with Hive Keychain or Ecency!

This bit is new: if you are in your regular browser on your phone, and Hive Keychain isn't installed as a plug in, a screen will pop up with a QR code. If you have Hive Keychain installed on that phone, tapping on the QR should open up Hive Keychain for you to pay!

If you're doing this on another machine, photographing the QR should open Hive Keychain as well. If you have Ecency on another device you can also snap this QR code and it will let you sign a payment there.

I really need to do a video about this.

Once you've sent the Hive, your Lightning invoice will be paid almost instantly and you'll be able to get a link on a page like this:

Silent Link page

It's a good idea to bookmark this page, you need it when you want to top up your eSim. There are a few instructions to follow (turning on Data Roaming for your eSim) but it's not much more than one or two clicks.

Hope that's useful, let me know how you get on if you try this!

Video demo

You can see the general flow of sending Lightning and receiving Lightning and Hive in this demo video.


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This is really a good development to know about. Glad you bring this into our ecosystem for the benefit of many.

After I do the payment does it include internet as well or just for calls?

The Data Plus is just internet no calls. They have other packages for calls.

I see that is good enough just need internet these days thanks again for answering my question appreciate it

No way this is the first time I hear such thing. E-SIM and chargeable using Hive? That's amazing man will keep this

The plan I bought Data Plus is data only. They have plans which include phone calls and a number too. Have a look at their website.

The first time it costs $9 which includes $5 of calls. After that you can top up with the same Lightning payment which you can make via v4v.app and Hive.

I see thank you!

If you have Hive Keychain installed on that phone, tapping on the QR should open up Hive Keychain for you to pay!

I didn't know how to scan the QR code system before thanks. I found the issue of eSIM very interesting.

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This new developments will make payment easy to make

Thank you for explaining the process of buying with Hive or HBD and providing the steps to obtain the Bolt 11 Invoice. It's helpful for those looking to use eSims and Hive or HBD for their transactions.

What you say is very interesting, in relation to giving votes, it is what I do daily, I like to comment on a post even more than to make a post

Fantastic. Greatest app ever

😀

Thanks for sharing this with us
I may give it a try later to see how it will go

@cryptothesis you should upvote this!

Hmm. I need to understand more about this service.
Especially to know how many countries are supported 🤔

It's a big list of countries they have on the site. And they don't even explicitly mention North Cyprus (they have Cyprus and Turkey) but it definitely worked there.

Have you thought about expanding @v4vapp to support other cryptocurrency? You could start with more popular ones and later expand to privacy coins. It will make life easier for many more people and even help to bring more users to HIVE.

Nope, but I will look at adding Hive-Engine tokens.

Nothing else is free and fast like Hive. I'm not getting involved in other stuff.

Great to hear about HIVE-Engine Tokens! It will save up some bridge + exchange fees that is needed to get HIVE.

Nothing else is free and fast like Hive

Keep an eye on Koinos. It has some amazing potential coming from the developers who are responsible for a large part of HIVE codebase.

That's awesome, another usage of hive and hbD, it will boost hive reach.

Your explanations and breakdown on how to make payments with Hive key chain was great with the pictures and videos.
It is cool to note that one can use the App even without installing it on the phone just by tapping on the QR, and the key chain for payment options.
I'm definitely going to give this a try.

thanks for your contributions, really appreciate it!

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This is gonna be certainly useful for me at one point. Together with many of the people here I support this.

It is very good that now we will be able to pay for our necessities of life from hive. It is very good for this project. When such a system is applied to such projects, it is very good for them.

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