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I tried them they are doing a very good job. It's very sad to find out that they are little to not known at all, but they give a really good service. What I love is the fact that they don't ask you for any personal info, you just pay and you get a token. I'm absolutely coming back to them as soon as my current VPN subscription expires.

Privacy vpn that's safe for the ones who give high importance to privacy. They accept XMR as payment option and I've noticed when I selected the XMR option, there's a plan for life time that cost $500 for 6 devices. $500 for life time sounds good, but who knows if the platform will offer its services for a person's lifetime but it's not a bad offer I guess. Both clearnet and Onion domain names of the platform are working.

So there's a lot of good but some darkness here to a degree: Good:

• Speed: Torrents and Connections are noticeably faster than any other provider i've tried. I'm limited by my home bandwidth but from what i can measure, torrenting via this service is unbeatable
• Technical setup. If anyone does it right, its those guys. I've used many VPNs and I've yet to find one that does everything this right. With two minor exceptions, the configs and details these guys post are the gold standard

Bad

• Trust: Who knows whoever is behind this service and if they can be trusted. I have no reason to trust an anonymous group with my private browing data. For torrenting though it's fine. A shame because if they were more public i could at least consider it.
• Technology: There's very little they could do better but to name the things i know: RAM Disk servers, Traffic Obfuscation like Mullvads DAITA, Confidential Compute verfied configs on the nodes. No provider has all these features.

So, great choice for torrenting and shitposting, arguably not the most trustworthy server to keep your privacy from prying eyes.

I've been using CS for years. They're great and super competent at what they do, which is just running a super solid, anonymous VPN service. I just bought a lifetime subscription.

There are no website account logins, no emails, no identifiers. You pay with XMR, they issue you a login code on-site. You hash the code on their site with their hasher tool, you download their configs from the site, enter your hash in the VPN config settings for OpenVPN or Wireguard and off you go to connect to the internet anonymously. Simple.

If you don't understand something about how to use it, check out their site for instructions, FAQ or the live chat. They're also on IRC.

I've been using them for several years, mostly to pirate content off off torrent sites. In that time, I've downloaded a huge amount of files; I have yet to receive even a single copyright infringement letter. (Not surprising, since Cryptostorm doesn't have my real name/address anyway to hand over, even if subpoenaed.)

very good , no kyc , can"t really find any cons

Fantastic service for the privacy-minded, no account or KYC required, not even an email address. I have been using them for 6 years now. The instructions are not outdated, they are intended for advanced users and work fine.

Pros: They answer by mail and try to help. Ability to create keys locally on your PC. Ability to pay XMR

Cons: An old inconvenient site. Long search for setup instructions. The instructions are old. There is no button to log out of your personal account. I don't understand why the rating is so high.

I do like how they open sourced almost everything. Port forwarding is allowed also. I'm bypassing their device limitation with VPN router as they recommended in their site.

I'm still hopping between various VPN but as of right now, I can recommend CS for torrent user.

Really appreciate what Cryptostorm is doing for privacy. No account needed at all — just use a token and you're in. It’s one of the few VPNs that still take anonymity seriously, plus the Tor and I2P support is a huge bonus.

I haven't tried their service yet, but since they support Monero (XMR) payments, I believe that adds significant value.