So I'm sure you all are very familiar with the two services Cloudflare and DDoS-Guard. These two services protect your server from incoming DDoS traffic that will disrupt your operations. It is true that the service plans for these websites that actually provide this functionality are quite pricey, but they both only take card payments.
I know quite a few crypto websites that would benefit from this kind of service if only they could pay in cryptocurrency.
Cloudflare don't even have many FIAT alternatives. (AWS is the only legit alternative probably) I was searching one and I came across to these comments:
The value of CloudFlare comes from its network, not the software they run. You can hack together a caching reverse proxy (intentionally oversimplified) pretty easily, but it won't be "CloudFlare".
this is, as the kids say, a *MOAT*. you could leak the entire source of cloudflare and cloudflare's value would be unaffected.
Pretty much what they said.
Cloudflare is kind of what you call: "a monopoly".
It is not like some start-up that accepts crypto will be as big as cloudflare anytime soon. If that happens in the future for some reason, cloudflare won't exist that day.