Here’s how to buy a VPN with bitcoin cryptocurrency

If you need a VPN for bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies, here’s how you can subscribe to it:

1. Go to the Surfshark order page; 
2. Choose the plan you like (hint: the longer-lasting ones are more economical);
3. Enter the email address you’ll use to manage your account (you may want to use one that isn’t under your real name);
4. (Optional) Say “yes” to the optional Surfshark Alert, Search, and Antivirus features;
5. Select “Cryptocurrency” under the payment options;
6. Choose whether you want to pay with CoinGate or CoinPayments;
7. Click “Confirm purchase;”
8. Follow the instructions on your chosen platform! 

As long as you already have a crypto wallet – and if you’re reading this article, we’re fairly certain you do – you should do swimmingly. Congrats on your blockchain VPN purchase!

You use a VPN to get more privacy, and there isn’t a more private method of purchasing a VPN than with bitcoin! Under ordinary circumstances, you’d use your bank account to pay for a VPN subscription. However, this would tie your name to the VPN purchase and ownership. 

Unlike the usual ways of paying for a VPN, cryptocurrency is anonymous and untraceable. This is a very strong point if you live in a country that bans VPN use. They aren’t many, but they exist. And the more distance you put between yourself and the proof that you paid for a VPN, the better.

It also makes it harder for your data to be leaked or seized from the VPN provider. Surfshark operates under a no-logs policy, so no data is kept on the VPN server outside what’s needed to maintain the connection. Surfshark’s based in the Netherlands because of its favorable privacy laws. But even in such cases, not giving the VPN providers your name can still seem attractive.

No, a VPN itself does not make you anonymous – nothing can. A lot of it depends on how you act online. However, using a VPN makes it a lot easier to be safer and more private online. 

• It changes your real IP address, so you don’t leave a digital footprint online;
• It obscures your activities from your internet service provider by encrypting your internet traffic, so they can’t know where, when, and what you’re browsing; 
• Websites and services won’t be able to tell who you are until you log in to an account or otherwise reveal your data.

It provides additional security with features like Kill Switch, which disconnects you from the internet if the VPN connection drops.