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This sounds like an interesting service, but I'm not sure I understand why is it so expensive. 8 EUR per month to send/receive texts sounds a bit much in my opinion. A more apropriate price for this would have been, I speculate, some 3 EUR.

But maybe I'm missing something essential here?

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Their closest competitor seems to be https://smsprivacy.org who are similarly anonymity friendly (supporting Tor and cryptocurrency, and not requiring personal data for signup) and don't filter incoming registration messages. Price: 0.0015 BTC per day(!), which is ~$400 per month at the moment. And they don't support outgoing messages.

So Crypton.sh looks like an excellent deal. Wish they didn't require an e-mail address.