Top up your balance in Bitcoin and deploy a VPS pinned to one of four Nordic constitutional jurisdictions. The coin every wallet already holds, settled on-chain or over the Lightning Network. An email and a password on the account. Booted in 90 seconds.
Pay in Bitcoin — on-chain in about ten minutes or over the Lightning Network in seconds. The coin every wallet already holds.
No KYC on the account — email and password only. No card, no recurring charge, no payment details kept on file.
Four Nordic bastions, from $5.90/mo, deployed in ~90 seconds. Tested with Sparrow, Electrum, Phoenix and Mutiny.
Every Bitcoin wallet supports on-chain. Scan the address, set your fee, send — your balance is credited after the first confirmation, usually around ten minutes. The right rail for larger top-ups and for any wallet without Lightning support.
The Lightning Network credits your balance in seconds, with negligible fees. Pay a Lightning invoice from Phoenix, Mutiny or any LN wallet — ideal for smaller top-ups and for getting a server up the instant you decide to.
Email and password — no document, no phone, no card.
Pick Bitcoin and an amount; choose the on-chain address or a Lightning invoice.
Scan with Sparrow, Electrum, Phoenix or Mutiny and send. Lightning clears in seconds.
Balance credited, choose a bastion and OS, boot your VPS in ~90 seconds.
Full walk-through in the guide: How to pay for a VPS with Bitcoin and Lightning.
2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 120 GB NVMe. A reverse proxy, a VPN exit, a small service — topped up with a quick Lightning payment.
8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM, 480 GB NVMe. The featured tier — and enough to self-host a Bitcoin Core plus Lightning node Tor-routed.
24 vCPU, 64 GB RAM, 1920 GB NVMe. Multi-tenant workloads, AI inference, full stacks — same on-chain or Lightning billing.
Full tier line — Sentinel · Garrison · Ravelin · Bulwark · Citadel — on /vps/. Longer terms save up to 30%.
Almost everyone holding crypto holds some Bitcoin, and almost every wallet can pay on-chain. That makes BTC the easiest way to get a no-KYC server running — and with Lightning, the fastest. The trade-off is privacy: Bitcoin is pseudonymous and writes to a public ledger.
If you want the simplest path, pay in Bitcoin. If you want the payment itself to leave no public trace, pay in Monero instead. Both deploy a server in about ninety seconds, and neither asks your name.
The questions people ask before paying for a server in BTC on a host that runs no identity check.
Yes. Bitcoin (BTC) is a first-class payment coin: open an account with just an email and a password, top up your balance in BTC — on-chain or over Lightning — and deploy a VPS pinned to Stockholm, Helsinki, Oslo or Reykjavík. No identity document, no card, no KYC at any step.
Both work. On-chain Bitcoin is the universal default: every wallet supports it, and a top-up confirms in roughly ten minutes to an hour depending on the fee you set. Lightning is near-instant and ideal for smaller top-ups — the balance is credited in seconds with negligible fees. Use Lightning for speed and small amounts, on-chain for large transfers or when your wallet has no Lightning support.
With Lightning, your balance is usually credited within seconds and the VPS boots about 90 seconds later. On-chain, NordBastion credits the balance after the network confirms — typically one confirmation, around ten minutes, though a low fee at a busy time can take longer. You set the fee in your own wallet.
Bitcoin is pseudonymous, not anonymous: every payment is recorded on a public ledger and chain-analysis can attempt to cluster addresses. NordBastion never links the payment to an identity because it collects none, but the on-chain record exists. If you want the payment itself to leave no public trace, pay in Monero instead — see our Monero VPS page.
Any self-custodial wallet. We test the panel flow against Sparrow and Electrum for on-chain, and Phoenix and Mutiny for Lightning. You scan the QR shown at top-up or paste the address/invoice, send, and your balance is credited on confirmation. The step-by-step is in our guide, How to pay for a VPS with Bitcoin and Lightning.
Your balance is held in USD value. The BTC amount is calculated at the moment you pay, so price movement between top-ups never changes what a server costs. If you would rather avoid Bitcoin’s volatility entirely, top up with a stablecoin such as USDT or USDC, also accepted.
Yes — and many customers do. A Ravelin tier or above comfortably runs Bitcoin Core plus LND or Core Lightning, Tor-routed and BTCPay-ready. We have a full walk-through in the guide Self-host a Bitcoin Lightning node on a VPS. Paying for that server in BTC closes the loop nicely.
