Paying with Monero (XMR)

• Privacy without effort. Ring signatures and stealth addresses hide sender, receiver and amount, by default, not as an option you have to configure.
• No address-reuse anxiety. The chain-analysis tricks that deanonymize careless BTC use simply don't apply.
• Cheap. Typical network fees are under a cent, sensible even against a $25 top-up.
• Fast enough not to think about. Most Monero payments here credit in a couple of minutes, in line with every other coin we accept.

Every other major coin runs on a public ledger where the sender, receiver and amount of every transaction stay permanently visible to anyone who looks; pseudonymous, not anonymous. Monero is built differently from the ground up, and it's worth knowing what's actually doing the work. None of it requires you to do anything differently at checkout; the privacy is automatic, not a setting you have to find. That's also, incidentally, most of why the wallet picks below matter more here than which coin you started with.

• Ring signatures blend your transaction with a group of decoys pulled from the chain, so no output can be tied to a single signer.
• Stealth addresses generate a fresh, one-time address for every incoming payment, so the same wallet never shows the same address twice on-chain.
• RingCT hides the amount itself, not just the parties, a layer Bitcoin's base protocol doesn't have at all.
• A steady, roughly two-minute block time keeps confirmations predictable, which is part of why a Monero payment here tends to credit about as fast as anything else on the list.

The other seven coins we accept are all reasonable choices, and none of them are a bad way to buy an eSIM. Here's how they actually stack up next to Monero on the two things that matter at checkout: how privately the payment moves, and how fast it lands.

• Buy directly where it's listed. A number of established exchanges still list Monero; buy there and withdraw to your own wallet rather than leaving it on the exchange, where it's technically still someone else's custody, however good that exchange's reputation currently is.
• Swap from a coin you already hold. Non-custodial swap services convert BTC, ETH and others to XMR without an account, useful if you already hold a different coin and just want the privacy upgrade for this one purchase.
• Keep a small buffer above the $25 minimum if you're swapping. Exchange-rate movement between quoting and sending can leave you a little short of an exact top-up.

1. 01
   Add funds → choose XMR

   Pick the amount; a fresh Monero address is minted for your invoice.

2. 02
   Copy amount + address

   Or scan the QR straight from the invoice screen.

3. 03
   Send from your wallet

   One transaction, the exact amount invoiced. Monero handles the privacy automatically. There's no extra step on your end.

4. 04
   Wait for confirmation

   The invoice screen polls the network and credits your balance on its own, typically a couple of minutes, not something you need to time yourself or keep refreshing to catch.

5. 05
   Buy your pack

   One tap from balance, and the eSIM QR appears immediately.

Whether the balance is headed for a week in Mexico or a month in Germany, the flow from here is identical: pick a pack, and the QR appears.

The invoice screen is doing more than just sitting there. It's polling the Monero network in the background and will flip your order's status the moment it sees the payment, without you needing to refresh or check anything yourself. That matters most during the confirming state, when it's tempting to assume something went wrong just because the number on screen hasn't moved yet.

• Waiting for payment. The default state, nothing has arrived yet. The QR and the copyable address stay valid for the countdown shown on screen.
• Confirming. The transaction has been seen by the network; the balance updates automatically once it's sufficiently settled, typically within a couple of minutes.
• Paid. The balance is credited and the pack-purchase button unlocks, no separate confirmation step needed on your side.
• Expired. The countdown ran out before anything arrived. The address is dead; generate a fresh invoice rather than sending to it late.

Monero's privacy protects the transaction, not your device or your habits. The usual crypto-security rules still apply, and arguably matter more here, since a lost seed phrase or a hijacked address can't be traced or reversed afterward the way a transparent-chain mistake sometimes can be.