Dr. Hax on Nostr: I started by wanting to subscribe to Daniel Batton's newsletter and here's how it's ...

I started by wanting to subscribe to Daniel Batton's newsletter and here's how it's going.

His website (batcoinz dot com) hard blocked me because I use privacy software (in this case, Tor). No captcha, just can't connect to the site. Oof.

After circumventing this network control, I found I could not pay in Bitcoin. Credit cards only.

So then I go buy a prepaid credit card from bitrefill. Some of the links in their order email didn't work right but eventually I got the card. I subscribe to Daniel's newsletter and on the 4th attempt an trying to log into/sign up for substack, it finally works.

What do I see then? An option to pay in bitcoin to subscribe to the newsletter. 🤦‍♂️🤷 Whatever, I was successful at giving him my money, despite it being very difficult. That's the real point here.

And as a bonus, I now have that prepaid card in a Google Android phone (apparently tap to pay doesn't work with any version of Android except Google's, which is 🤮). We'll see if ot works...