Back when I was doing that uber-shady business of torrenting, and this kind of VPN was much less-common than it is today, I paid for VPN access with crypto.

I'd gather a small amount of that up (however I did that), keep it in an offline wallet, and spend it on VPN service every now and then.

It just seemed like the right way to go about things.

(And then I lost that wallet, because of course I did, with about $14 worth of BTC in it. I didn't care enough at that time to see if I'd backed it up properly; I wasn't planning on using it for anything anymore anyway. That was in 2014 and those backups are waaaay gone now, but it'd be around $2k worth of BTC today -- plenty to buy some DDR5 RAM. Whoopsie-doodle!)

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vpShane 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Enough to buy like 512MB of DDR5 RAM maybe

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		...then I'll just have to learn how to get stuff done with 512MB of RAM. (I'm sure that browsers like lynx still work just like they did in 2001, and that pine can still read mail. Shouldn't be a problem, right?)