“Bitcoin is not an option. We can pay next to nothing with it and there seems to be no ‘certain’ way to convert it to something we can use,” he says.
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IceServers, based in Iceland!, accepts bitcoins for shared and dedicated servers. Looks like the admin is looking for ways to fail.
Seals uses Orange, been quite good for a year.
Seals manages to pay all the bills with bitcoins. On the rare occasion that dollars are needed, those are available for bitcoins too.
By 'certain' he must mean promised by someone currently powerful.