Connectivity without a identity file

MoneroSIM exists because buying a SIM card in most of the world now means handing over a passport. More than 150 countries have mandatory registration laws, and the databases they create are permanent, widely accessible and regularly abused. There is very little evidence they reduce crime.

What we sell

Prepaid mobile data on tier-one partner networks in more than 200 countries, delivered as an eSIM profile. You buy a balance in US dollars, data is deducted per megabyte at the local rate, and nothing expires. There is no phone number, deliberately, because a number is the strongest identifier a network can attach to a person.

What we know about you

A hash of your recovery token, your balance, and the usage records needed to bill data correctly. We do not have your name, your email address unless you volunteered one, or any document. If you paid in Monero we do not even have a payment trail that points anywhere.

This is not a policy we could quietly change our minds about. The information was never collected, so there is nothing in a database to hand over, sell or lose in a breach.

The honest limitations

We cannot recover a lost recovery token, because holding anything that would let us prove an eSIM belongs to you would defeat the design. Mobile networks still know which tower your device is attached to, because that is how packets reach you. And a card payment is less private than Monero, which is why we say so at checkout rather than in the footer.

Who buys this

Journalists and researchers working where registration is enforced. People leaving situations where a tracked phone is a danger. Frequent travellers who are tired of expiry dates and airport queues. And a large group who simply object, on principle, to the idea that using maps in a foreign city should require showing a passport.

Who is behind it

MoneroSIM is run by a small team that works under the house name rather than under our own. That is not theatre. Several of us have worked in telecoms and in payments, and the registration databases described above contain our details too. We would rather the product be judged on what it collects than on whose photograph is on the about page.

If you need to reach a person, write to us through the contact page. We will exchange PGP keys on request: ask in your first message and we will send our public key and verify yours before anything sensitive is discussed. We do not publish a key fingerprint here, because a fingerprint on a web page is only as trustworthy as the web page.

Warrant canary

As of 18 September 2026, MoneroSIM has never received a subpoena, warrant, national security letter, gag order or any other legally binding request for customer data, and has never been asked to weaken or backdoor any part of this service. We review and re-date this statement monthly. If it stops being updated, or disappears, draw your own conclusions.

The practical point is narrower than a canary usually implies. A request would find a token hash, a balance and a usage total. For an order paid in Monero there is nothing attached to a person to hand over in the first place, which is the whole design.

Changelog

• September 2026: published a country by country SIM registration reference, added article bylines and dates, and started this changelog and canary.
• September 2026: added card payment alongside Monero, Bitcoin, Lightning and USDT. Card is less private, and the checkout says so.
• August 2026: opened per gigabyte billing in more than 200 countries with a balance that never expires, and published the rate card.
• August 2026: MoneroSIM launched with no account, no email and no identity checks.