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Your electricity company doesn't accept Bitcoin. Neither does your supermarket, your landlord, or your internet provider. You could spend months trying to convince them, but your rent is due next week.

This is the problem every European Bitcoiner faces: you want to save in sound money, but daily life runs on euros.

Most solutions make you choose. Keep Bitcoin in self-custody and manually convert when needed. Or deposit it with an exchange for a debit card and hope they don't get hacked.

Bringin doesn't make you choose.

# The Custody Problem With Other Bitcoin Cards

Most Bitcoin cards work the same way: deposit your BTC with an exchange or platform, get a debit card, and spend from their custodied balance. You're trusting them to hold your keys. You're hoping they stay solvent. You're betting they won't freeze your account.

Not your keys, not your coins—but at least you can buy groceries?

That's the trade-off other platforms ask you to make. Convenience for sovereignty.

# How Bringin Works: Your Keys Until You Spend

The Bringin Visa card connects to your Bringin account. When you spend, euros come from your euro balance. But here's what's different: **you control when and how those euros get there.**

Your Bitcoin stays in your self-custodial Lightning wallet until you decide to convert. Bringin never holds your BTC. Not for a second. You hold your keys right up until the moment you need euros.

No deposits to exchanges. No trusting third parties with your stack. Bringin only touches the sats you choose to convert—nothing more.

# Two Ways to Convert Sats to Euros
## Method 1: Lightning Invoice

Open Bringin. Generate an invoice for the amount you want to convert. Pay it from any Lightning wallet you want, Phoenix, Muun, Breez, Zeus, your own node via Alby, whatever you use. Euros land in your account instantly. 

## Method 2: Lightning Address (The Easiest Way)

You get a custom Lightning address: yourname@bringin.xyz

Send sats to that address from any Lightning wallet. Bringin automatically converts them to euros in seconds. No invoices. No extra steps. Just send sats, get euros, spend.

This is the closest thing to "send sats → spend euros" in one fluid step.

# Real-World Example: Paying for Groceries

Here's what Bringin users do at the supermarket.

Fill your cart. Get in line. While waiting, check the total on the screen. Open your Lightning wallet and send that exact amount in sats to your Bringin Lightning address.

The euros show up in your account before the cashier calls you forward. Tap your Bringin Visa card. Payment goes through.

Total time: less than unlocking your phone twice.

No asking the supermarket to accept Bitcoin. No explaining Lightning Network to anyone. No compromising on self-custody. Just paying for groceries with your Bitcoin savings.

This isn't theoretical. This is how people pay rent, buy groceries, and cover internet bills every month using Bringin.

# Transparent Pricing: No Hidden Fees
Bringin's pricing is simple:

Conversion fee: 1% + 0.5% spread Card usage fee: €0 FX fees: 0%

No surprises. No hidden charges. No custodial traps.

You know exactly what you're paying every time you convert sats to euros.

# Keep saving in sound money, spend anywhere Visa works. 

Remember your electricity bill? That supermarket run? That rent payment due next week?

With Bringin, you don't need to convince anyone to accept Bitcoin. You don't need to sacrifice self-custody for convenience. You simply convert what you need, when you need it and spend everywhere Visa is accepted. 


From Your Stack to Everywhere: The Bringin Visa Card

I Quit the Euro. Here’s How I Live 100% on Bitcoin.

> never heard of Bringin, what are the kyc requirements like on it (to use it)?

Email verification
Mobile verification
ID + face scan

For 10,000 Euro monthly limits. 



100% agree with everything you said. 

And that's is something I use to do as well, however the problem is when I need instant fiat liquidity and I only have Bitcoin. 

Might change that for saving 100% on Bitcoin. 


Yes I do, but that's the way I have to to keep all my savings on sound money. 

I keep trying to orange pill every merchant I use, I got already two, but my landlord, the supermarket, the gas station, the subway are hard to get them. 

At the beginning of this year, I made a decision.

To move away from inflation.
To move away from politicians.
To move away from chaos and uncertainty.

I decided to quit the euro — and start saving my time and energy in a form of money that’s immune to it all.

I went all in on Bitcoin.

People often ask:
“But Nuno, how do you pay for stuff? Food, rent, bills?”

Simple.

Whenever I find a merchant that accepts Bitcoin, I pay with a Lightning wallet.

For everything else — where Bitcoin isn’t accepted yet — I use Bringin, the complete Bitcoin app.

I convert the amount I need into euros (via Lightning or SEPA) and spend it anywhere Visa is accepted, using my Bringin physical or virtual card.

The best part:
I can connect my own Lightning node to Bringin.

That gives my node superpowers — I can pay directly from my node, or instantly convert sats to euros using Lightning, and spend them anywhere.

Doesn’t matter if the merchant accepts Bitcoin or not.
With Bringin, my node can pay anyone, anywhere.