Re: List of all Bitcoin addresses ever used - currently UNavailable on temp location
Service providers have limited network infrastructure, and need to pay for data sent to the internet, regardless of if they have data caps, or charge you for egress/outgoing data. If you are freely sharing a 10 or 20 GB file(s) using a service provider that does not charge per data transferred, you will eventually get kicked off from that service provider.
Obviously, I won't use a host with "unlimited" bandwidth. That's never real. And I've seen shared hosts that don't allow hosting large files. But for a VPS, I pay for the bandwidth limit, and it's up to the provider to ensure it's profitable for them.Quote
Another point is that many people look at bitcoin-related data today. The fact that someone is looking at blockchain data is not the privacy leak that it might have been 10 years ago.
I've never used a creditcard for anything crypto-related, and I want to keep it that way.Another reason I prefer to pay upfront in crypto: The tale of the July 4th surprise $2700 AWS bill.
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There is a reason why blockchair throttles downloads, and why they charge as much as they do for an API key.
They're also in the money making business, and their paying customers pay for the bandwidth used by, well, people like me 