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And then UK residents are going to discover the "power" of government which will require age verification for renting a VPS or VDS or any other kind of cloud infrastructure, tied directly to your passport/ID, because "many families are desperate for this to happen and I listen particularly to bereaved families that say the longer we delay this, the more children are put at risk".

/j or /s

P.S. by the way, is it possible for them to use Hetzner? Don't they need something like credit card?



Perhaps it'll work like dodgy boxes/firesticks, where you have a handful of people who individually set up their own service then charge a fee for access.


To the best of my knowledge, customers must be 18 or older to enter contracts with us / become customers. --Katie (Hetzner)


Thank you for sharing the reliable information from (well, at least somewhat) official source.


What about the services that rent vps/compute for crypto?


I'm not so sure, but aren't some attempts to regulate the cryptocurrencies (therefore completely obliterating their initial goal to be government-independent) already have been made? Maybe I'm wrong though, because I don't really remember... Probably I have to look it up.

Anyway, how would they obtain the (let's say) Bitcoin to pay for VPS?




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