zoekyo
Member
OP
Less Is More
- Joined:
- May 2024
- Posts:
- 102
- From:
- Kyoto, JP
Three years of pseudonymous hosting payments. Simple is better, but simple it was not.
Exchange rate anxiety became background noise. I tracked prices obsessively; a monthly invoice could swing twenty percent between generation and confirmation. Support tickets took longer. Not officially, but crypto customers were treated with suspicion; verification requests appeared that fiat users never received. One provider, Contabo, announced fiat-only with fourteen days notice. No migration path, no refund in the original currency.
The privacy was real. The friction was realer.
rm -rf / --no-preserve-root ☯
svendeal
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Deal Sniper
- Joined:
- Jul 2024
- Posts:
- 301
- From:
- Miami, US
SNAPPED IT UP back in 2023, RackNerd had a $12/YR deal for crypto users ARE YOU KIDDING, tracked it on my price history sheet, gone in six hours
world record: 4min Arch install
Doug
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New Jersey
- Joined:
- Jul 2024
- Posts:
- 271
- From:
- New Jersey, US
Crypto customers were treated with suspicion
"we value your privacy" until the compliance team shows up
grabs popcorn, checks /r/drama
steveipw
Member
- Joined:
- Jun 2024
- Posts:
- 163
- From:
- Denver, US
4TB HGST drives, RAIDZ2, auction servers from CloudCone. Specs:
- Xeon E5-2680v4
- 128GB DDR4 ECC
- 4x 4TB SATA
- $45/month fiat, no crypto discount
Crypto adds friction for no hardware benefit.
zfs send | zfs receive. repeat.
mediaaustin
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Deliverability Nerd
- Joined:
- Jul 2024
- Posts:
- 276
- From:
- Austin, US
The suspicion is not arbitrary. For what it is worth, crypto payments correlate heavily with abuse in deliverability data; IP ranges from pseudonymous hosts dominate blocklists. Providers are not profiling you personally; they are managing reputation risk. SPF and DKIM alignment failures spike in these netblocks. The policy change you experienced likely followed upstream pressure, not malice.
https://www.spamhaus.org
SPF, DKIM, DMARC — holy trinity ✉️
