Medical Aid Across Borders – How Binance Pay Helped Save a Life

Main takeaways

• This is a true story of how cryptocurrency, through Binance Pay, helped save a life by bypassing traditional banking delays, proving its practical value beyond investment.
• Binance Pay enables instant, gas-fee-free transactions, offering a crucial advantage over traditional payment systems, which can be critical in urgent situations.
• Initially skeptical, two families across France and Algeria embraced cryptocurrency after experiencing its benefits in a crisis, coming to see it as a tool for financial freedom.

Imed Idrissi (not his real last name) loves using Binance Pay, a professional P2P (peer-to-peer) merchant from Algeria. He recalls that Binance Pay was the first crypto product he had ever used.

Years ago, a friend told him about cryptocurrency and Binance and asked him to do a test sending one dollar worth of cryptocurrency. He sent over the agreed amount, and the friend returned it to him on the spot.

Imed was impressed by the instant transfer and zero fees the platform charged. That was how his user story with Binance Pay began.

Imed said,

“Binance Pay helped me understand the distinction between using crypto and local fiat currencies. While costs are nearly nonexistent when using cryptocurrencies, they can be significant with fiat.

“And I am not just talking about monetary cost. I am talking about costs that cannot be quantified, such as someone’s health and someone’s life.”

What had really opened his eyes to the revolutionary power of crypto transactions and cemented his loyalty to Binance Pay was a life-changing experience that came somewhat later.

It was when Binance Pay became his family’s lifeline and helped save the life of a dear family friend’s child.

A life-changing holiday in France

Residing in Algeria, Imed’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Idrissi, belong to an older generation and are not exactly tech-savvy. His father is the owner of a transportation company while his mother is a former civil servant.

Before 2022, they were both staunch ‘fiat loyalists’ and did not understand why Imed would spend most of his time on P2P platforms, exchanging cryptocurrencies.

In the summer of 2022, however, their views changed. The Idrissi couple went to France for vacation, as they did every year, to visit family and friends.

As always, they paid a visit to Alain, an old friend of Imed’s father, with whom he shared an almost brotherly bond. Around that time, tragedy struck Alain’s family.

His young son…