Buying Tech Privately With Crypto: Guides
How to buy AirPods, an iPhone, a console, a hardware wallet or a Pixel for GrapheneOS with crypto, what our fee covers, and what stays private.
- How to Buy a Hardware Wallet Privately, and Safely Buy it sealed, from a seller that will not pass your address to the maker, pay in crypto from your own wallet, and verify the device with the maker's own genuine check when you set it up. Never use a device that arrives with a recovery phrase already written down.
- How to Buy an iPhone With Crypto Choose the unlocked iPhone in the shop, decide storage and colour before you pay, send the exact amount in any coin we accept within 1 hour, and we buy it new and sealed and ship it with tracking.
- Buying a Pixel for GrapheneOS, Paid in Crypto Buy an unlocked Pixel that is on GrapheneOS's current list of supported devices (the Pixel 9a is a common, lower-priced choice), install GrapheneOS yourself with its official web installer, and relock the bootloader at the end. We ship the phone sealed, as Google sells it.
- How to Buy AirPods With Crypto Choose the AirPods in the shop, pay with a quick, cheap coin such as Solana or Litecoin within 1 hour, and we buy them new and sealed and ship them. The product page shows the item price and our fee separately.
- Plain Packaging: What the Box Says, and What It Can't Hide The outer box has no store name, no logo and no description of the contents, and the sender line is a plain name. The courier still sees the name and address you give, and a parcel that crosses a border carries a customs form that has to describe its contents truthfully.
- YubiKey or Nitrokey? How to Choose a Security Key Buy two keys with the plug your devices use (USB-C for most current laptops and phones) and NFC if you sign in on a phone. A YubiKey 5 supports the most services and protocols; a Nitrokey 3 has open-source firmware you can update. Register both keys on every account and store one somewhere safe.
- How to Buy a Game Console With Crypto Pick the console in the shop, check the edition, bundle and region, pay in any coin we accept within 1 hour, and we buy it new and ship it with tracking. Consoles that are hard to find are quoted with the wait before we buy.
- How Our Service Fee Works, and Why There Is One You pay the item price plus 12 percent and a flat 9 dollars, rounded up to a whole dollar, with shipping and any tax added at checkout. The fee covers converting your crypto, buying and checking the item, packing and support.
- Is It Safe to Buy Tech With Crypto? A Practical Checklist It is safe if you check before you send, because a crypto payment cannot be reversed: confirm the site's address, read the full price, match the coin, network and amount, and use the copy button or QR code. We never ask for your seed phrase or for a payment to another address.
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