Hetzner's crypto discount is actually a volatility trap

LichunLars · 2026-08-14T16:16:47+00:00

Hetzner announced «20% off all annual plans if you pay BTC/ETH/LTC.» I ran the numbers. At payment time: $120 invoice → $96 equivalent in crypto. BTC confirmation time: ~10 min, variance 4-47 min. Dur...

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larryjeong

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From:: Texas, US

6d ago

#11

CloudCone only has LA datacenters so from Texas my latency is fine but if I was in NZ like bellaauc that VPS would be useless. Anyway I did the math again, $3.10 saved but I spent 45 minutes buying BTC, 20 minutes waiting for confirms, 10 minutes filing a ticket when it showed «unpaid» for an hour. At minimum wage I lost money.

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pieter_rtm

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3d ago · edited

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The routing thing LichunLars mentioned — Level3→Cogent→BitPay — that's not just latency. Those are paid transit paths. Someone's paying for those hops, and it's baked into the spread you see. Rotterdam to Frankfurt is 8ms direct. I wouldn't route crypto through Cogent if I had a choice, but you don't with BitPay.

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