IVPN vs CryptoStorm

They are kept for troubleshooting reasons.

Bitcoin, cash and PayPal are accepted.

You can switch between a single VPN connection (singlehop), or routing your internet traffic through multiple VPN servers (multihop) at any time. The latter increases anonymity, but comes at the cost of a slightly worse performance. Furthermore their multihop system has a built in restriction that dictates that it must be a hop from one country to the next, so no Dallas to LA hop, but because of this there should be nothing too shocking about the overall latency. NY - Toronto - London can still edge under 100ms, LA - SLC - HK hitting 350 - 380ms is pretty normal for everyone. A single hop from Brooklyn to Jersey can be as low as 7ms, with 20ms to Atlanta.

To further the point, really this means that if you route through a US node they may throttle you, but it may help to be on a private tracker. It certainly wouldn't affect you if you're connecting from a peer through Canada or Bucharest.

Except for BitTorrent in US, you can use any and all protocols at your disposal, no traffic is restricted.

Currently accepts cryptocurrency including Bitcoin, Darkcoins, Dogecoins, Litecoins, Namecoins.

No logs kept. No account information. No way to enforce Terms of Service.

Will commit corporate seppuku (similar to Lavabit) if no other option exists to protect user privacy.

No single entity in charge of accepting payments for services (decentralized payments).
No account information stored.
User name is Hashed Token.
Can buy from Resellers to further distance purchase from VPN provider.

Custom Open Source Client available to set up VPN connection. Other methods, including OpenVPN, etc., exist as well.

Non-US Based.
Not required by law to keep logs.
Privacy protections of Iceland.

256 bit AES + SHA512