# Payment methods for VIP, using bitcoin or other privacy-friendly alternatives

**URL:** <https://forums.trakt.tv/t/payment-methods-for-vip-using-bitcoin-or-other-privacy-friendly-alternatives/110578>\
**Category:** Questions & Help\
**Tags:** website, vip\
**Created:** [May 20, 2026, 10:10pm UTC](https://forums.trakt.tv/t/payment-methods-for-vip-using-bitcoin-or-other-privacy-friendly-alternatives/110578 "2026-05-20T22:10:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![NeonCatfish](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.trakt.tv/neoncatfish/32/19985_2.png) [@NeonCatfish](https://forums.trakt.tv/u/NeonCatfish)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2026, 10:10pm UTC](https://forums.trakt.tv/t/payment-methods-for-vip-using-bitcoin-or-other-privacy-friendly-alternatives/110578/1 "2026-05-20T22:10:55Z")

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Hi. I have been a VIP user here for 9 years.  
I always paid for VIP in bitcoins. Originally I used the built-in “Coinbase integration”, and when that was removed I kept renewing it via support tickets, for 3 years each time.

My “VIP” is about to expire again. This time, support told me the site no longer accepts bitcoin. That’s a shame, but okay I guess. Still, I would like to pay without KYC. I would rather not link the rich data the site already has about me to my real name. I see you accept credit cards, Cash app, or some horrible bank integration thing. And you want me to subscribe, and keep pulling money. I was happy with push-, not pull-type transactions.

Why don’t you accept some kind of gift card? Or bitcoin or monero?  
Do you actually _want_ toxic personally-identifiable information, or do you just want to get paid?  
I would hope the latter.

If you produced some kind of gift cards, that would have dual use: it would also let members gift VIP to friends.  
And it would allow me to keep supporting you perhaps via a reseller.

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Originally I started paying for VIP simply to support the site, I have not cared about any of the extra features.  
Seeing there is no good way to keep supporting you and that I will have to let my VIP period expire, I quickly read through the current set of VIP features.  
I see restrictive limits have been introduced to list sizes, and apparently my watchlist of 600 items is now considered super-mega-giga long and hence a paid feature, huh.

When I started writing this post I figured if you don’t want my money without my KYC data, I will just keep the money but keep using the site without “VIP”. But now I see if I want to keep using the site I kind of need to pay the VIP.  
Inertia has kept me here for all this time, but in the meantime I started self-hosting most other services I use. I guess I can find an open source alternative and run yet another docker container on my home server.

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In short I am asking whether you accept money in a privacy-preserving way or if I should look into migrating to a self-hosted solution.

Thanks for these past years.