I think the idea is that money reaches the company, the company then increments how much time you have left on the account, then deletes records linking payment

I think the idea is that money reaches the company, the company then increments how much time you have left on the account, then deletes records linking payment to the account Like you show up and give me $5, tell me it’s for account XYZ, I go into my admin console and increment the remaining usage time, but don’t write that you were the one giving me $5 There’s a window of time where the link exists of course! But you can get rid of it. (I Hope that they are not storing things like an account start date or too many payment records… it could easily be deanonymized through time stamp correlation and the banks/stripe/PayPal have the data)