This year was the worst renewal ever. First, 4chan didn't notify me that my pass was about to expire like they always had in past years so I found out when I tried to post last week. My Coinbase wallet was just slightly less than $30 so I had to buy more Bitcoin. Coinbase lets you buy instantly with a debit card but I found out that my debit card had expired last year and I never activated the new card that my bank had sent me so the bank had cancelled it in 2024. Last week I ordered a new card which is still not here yet. I had to use a bank transfer to buy which has a 5 business day hold which meant a full week of waiting because it cut across the weekend. They finally released the hold yesterday but I still couldn't renew my pass because there's now some insanely long confirmation period for payments to 4chan. So, I had to set up my own custodial wallet and send my Bitcoin there, but I still couldn't renew because apparently you need to use ETH to pay for transactions out of the custodial wallet and I only had Bitcoin. I converted the last remaining Bitcoin in my Coinbase wallet to ETH and transferred it over but then I was literally 0.60 USD short for the transaction fee so I was gonna have to buy more ETH. I found an unused gift card that I had received for my birthday and tried buying ETH with that but they don't accept prepaid cards. At that point I felt like jumping out the window because I had already been passless an entire week and then I was going to need to wait an additional week for either my new debit card to arrive or for a new bank transfer to clear hold. But thankfully they allowed me to buy ETH without starting a new hold period.