Anon on Nostr: My experience has been super positive so far. I like the whole idea of buying data ...
My experience has been super positive so far. I like the whole idea of buying data and phone number from two different entities.
Silent Link is pretty sweet. None of this fixed monthly fee nonsense. You pay some small amount per gigabyte and when you’re running low on data, you just send them a Lightning payment. I bet I’m paying less than $5/month, versus Verizon which was charging me around $50.
You’ll end up with a third world IP address — in my case I got one from Warsaw Poland. Doesn’t matter though, because I run a VPN on top of it so that IP is never seen by anyone but the VPN provider. Speed and latency isn’t world class but it’s acceptable.
I do most of my conversations (including voice) over Signal, Telegram, and WhatsApp so in theory, I could stop there. But for the cases where I need a phone number, like to get SMS notifications for doctors appointments, etc. I ended up getting a number from JMP. They’re pretty solid. I think I’m paying $5/mo (in Bitcoin) for the phone number and it just runs over an XMPP. It’s solid.
Silent Link is pretty sweet. None of this fixed monthly fee nonsense. You pay some small amount per gigabyte and when you’re running low on data, you just send them a Lightning payment. I bet I’m paying less than $5/month, versus Verizon which was charging me around $50.
You’ll end up with a third world IP address — in my case I got one from Warsaw Poland. Doesn’t matter though, because I run a VPN on top of it so that IP is never seen by anyone but the VPN provider. Speed and latency isn’t world class but it’s acceptable.
I do most of my conversations (including voice) over Signal, Telegram, and WhatsApp so in theory, I could stop there. But for the cases where I need a phone number, like to get SMS notifications for doctors appointments, etc. I ended up getting a number from JMP. They’re pretty solid. I think I’m paying $5/mo (in Bitcoin) for the phone number and it just runs over an XMPP. It’s solid.