Paying for the VPN anonymously is possible with Bitcoin.
The reason you tunnel it all through tor is because you can't trust the VPN not to fold if the government subpoenas them. So if the data center hosting the VPN is subpoena all they can hand over are logs of tor exit nodes. If you didn't use tor, they would get your home IP and the jig is up.
The reason you tunnel it all through tor is because you can't trust the VPN not to fold if the government subpoenas them. So if the data center hosting the VPN is subpoena all they can hand over are logs of tor exit nodes. If you didn't use tor, they would get your home IP and the jig is up.