I thinkhope this can be reconsidered for fairness's sake. I remember when I was joining the forum, as a novice, it was tiring and took me a whole week to figure it out, if not more. I couldn't think of a VPN then, so I registered directly from my Nigerian IP and it pushed through. That was where the issue started. I was told to pay a certain amount in Bitcoin or have my account whitelisted by a member here. It was the whitelisting that took me that much, until I got someone to whitelist me.

I could remember when I was joining the forum as a novice, it was tiring and took me a whole week to figure it out, if not more. I couldn't think of a VPN then, so I registered directly from my Nigerian IP. It was successful. That was where the issue started. I was told to pay a certain amount in Bitcoin to clear an evil tag or have my account whitelisted by a member here. It was the whitelisting that took me that much, until I got someone to whitelist me. In my opinion, a Bitcoin-related forum shouldn't have an entire country or region restricted that way.

Besides, I don't know the purpose it serves if a VPN can do the trick.

I think this can be reconsidered for fairness's sake. I remember when I was joining the forum, as a novice, it was tiring and took me a whole week to figure it out, if not more. I couldn't think of a VPN then, so I registered directly from my Nigerian IP and it pushed through. That was where the issue started. I was told to pay a certain amount in Bitcoin or have my account whitelisted by a member here. It was the whitelisting that took me that much, until I got someone to whitelist me.

In my opinion, a Bitcoin-related forum shouldn't have an entire country or region restricted that way.