Bhutan Throws Cash Out: Crypto Payments Invade the Himalayas 🚀😱

Well now, let’s all set our travelin’ trousers a-flappin’, for the oddball little kingdom of Bhutan, a place that measures happiness instead of dollars, has just announced they’ve tossed out their old-fashioned cash registers, and hitched their wagon to the wild stallion of crypto. All thanks to some mighty fine folks with tall hats at Binance Pay and an outfit called DK Bank.

Yes sir, travelers can now traipse through Himalayan valleys buyin’ everything from paper-thin airline seats to oranges that’d make Tom Sawyer whistle, all with the miracle of internet money. Crypto! That stuff you can’t touch, can’t smell, and likely won’t find if you drop it in the river.

Set your compass for #Bhutan and marvel at the world’s first crypto-powered tourism ride!

With Binance Pay and the fabled DK Bank, they’ve cooked up a way to buy flights, barter for baubles, and pick-up yak milk soap – cashless, cardless, charmless (except for the soap).

Over 100 Bhutanese merchants are waiting for your cyber coins and brave spirit. 🧳🪙🐲

— Allegedly Binance, May 7, 2025

It’s a regular gold rush of QR codes and smartphone wavin’. Thanks to this wizardry, your coins zip through the digital ether – BNB, BTC, USDC, all them creatures – and pop out at the end as Bhutanese Ngultrum. Handy, since even the ghosts at the Lonely Mountain don’t take Visa or Mastercard ‘round these parts.

Not only does this spare you those pesky foreign fees and suspicious bank folk, but it lets every yak herder and mom-and-pop trinket stand jump into the future with nothing but a phone and a dream. Yes, Bhutan is now struttin’ as the world’s first country with national-level crypto payments for travelers. Future historians may call this courage. Or maybe boredom.

Some say this is Binance galloping in with innovation. Others declare it’s simply a way to leave all that loose change at home (and the moths too). Either way, Bhutan’s thrown their lot in with silicon, code, and optimism – and you can bet there’ll be plenty of tall tales told around the fire about it. 💸🏔️🤠

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2025-05-07 08:30