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 What's the best bitcoin bill pay service in North America?

#AskNostr 
 Bitrefill 
 Bitrefill doesn't offer billpay in the US.  Correct me if I'm wrong.

If you are not living in the US, or you want to just use Bitrefill to buy gift cards and pay for them using bitcoin, then sign up at 
https://bitrefill.glencooper.com to get $5 worth of bitcoin for free after you buy $200 worth of gift cards. 
 sorry my bad bitrefill stopped in 2022

bitpay appears to do  it but i have never used them 
https://bitpay.com/blog/pay-your-bills-with-crypto/ 
 Normally I use a VPN with a USA IP address.

Clicked on the [Pay Bills] link within the control panel after logging in to my Bitpay account.

Got an error message that said, "Bill Pay isn't available in your area.  Currently Bill Pay is only supported within the United States.  However, we are constantly adding support for new locations.  Check back soon.   [Join waitlist]"

I thought maybe it didn't like my VPN, so I tried from my Real IP address.
Same error message. 🤷🏽‍♂️
https://cdn.satellite.earth/77c012b14d6da44deef45e54026e075ead43380faad75f33e4f096994b5516a0.png 
 I was exploring this a few months back. If you’re in the U.S the choices are slim, just spritz.finance and BitPay are available. Far as I can tell bitrefill ended services for U.S customers but still operates for other nations. 

I did try spritz and BitPay. Neither are great and I hate saying it but BitPay was the easiest and cheapest option 

Maybe @jack & @jack mallers can push @CashApp or @strike to help us out in the future 🤞🏻 
 on another note, a lot of the card payments things come and go like crazy and a lot of past rug pulls so be super careful with it.