Violet Rollergirl’s guide to using cryptocurrency via Peanut
As you may know, Peanut is a digital payment service often used in nations such as Argentina, India, and other BRIC countries. Peanut has numerous financial options including fiat and cryptocurrency bridges. You can fund your Peanut account balance in a number of ways, and then use those funds send cryptocurrency onwards to your provider, even if the provider you’re paying doesn’t have Peanut themselves.
If your provider accepts cryptocurrency donations, tips, or considerations, then you can use your Peanut account to pay them. This page explains how, complementing Peanut’s own list of help articles.
ⓘ This page is for clients or customers. If you are a provider, seller, or vendor you should instead read Violet Rollergirl’s Resources for Providers Using Cryptocurrency (as a Sex Worker).
In this article
- Sign up for Peanut
- Verify your identity in Peanut to add funds from non-crypto sources
- Add funds to your Peanut wallet
- Send crypto via Peanut
Sign up for Peanut
If you don’t already have a Peanut account, make one by downloading Peanut (referral) for your phone and signing up:
Once your Peanut account is created and activated, you can proceed to adding funds to your Peanut wallet.
Verify your identity in Peanut to add funds from non-crypto sources
You can add funds to your Peanut wallet numerous ways, but if you don’t already have cryptocurrency, you’ll likely need to verify your ID in Peanut before you can start. ID verification in Peanut allows you to open various currency accounts such as those for US Dollars (USD) or Mexican Pesos (MXN), and more.
Once your Peanut account is verified, you can then add funds using whatever route is newly available to you.
Add funds to your Peanut wallet
You first need to deposit some money into your Peanut wallet before you can send it on to your provider. You can do this by linking your bank or by getting paid by someone else.
Once you’ve added funds to your Peanut wallet, you’ll see its balance increase.
Send crypto via Peanut
If you have a Peanut account with a positive balance, you can use it to pay your provider in one of a number of cryptocurrencies by withdrawing funds to their crypto wallet.
Do this to send your provider a payment from your funded Peanut wallet:
- Tap Send in the Peanut app.
- Tap Withdraw to own account (Bank and crypto).
- Tap Crypto (Withdraw to a wallet or exchange.
- Choose the token and network as instructed by the provider you’re paying.
- Paste the payment/deposit address shared by your provider in the Wallet address field.
- Tap Continue.
Note that some providers use one-time deposit addresses, so you should repeat this process for every payment you need to make. Never assume an address will still work for future payments.
