Priya Raman
Payments & Adoption Reporter
Consumer on-ramps
Payments
Merchant adoption
Priya covers the question that decides whether any of this matters: can a normal person actually use it? Every on-ramp, rewards card, and gift-card product she writes about gets bought with her own money — receipts, fees, and fine print in the story.
She spent six years covering fintech and consumer payments — checkout flows, interchange, prepaid cards — before going bitcoin-only. At Bitcoin Almanack she writes the adoption beat: where bitcoin is showing up in ordinary commerce, and what the fine print costs you.
40+
on-ramps and cards tested with her own money
6 yrs
on the fintech & payments beat
NEW
joined the Almanack July 2026
HOW I REVIEW
I buy the product before I write about it — with my own money, at the listed price, screenshots kept. Every fee I quote comes off my own receipt or the provider’s published schedule, dated. If I couldn’t complete a purchase test before deadline, the story says so. Our full methodology →