It's likely that every VPN is a honeyPOT for some govt. Except maybe Mullvad. They've been freedom activists from the beginning.

Pretty much every VPN accepts BTC nowadays, and nobody really knows who you should trust so there's no point asking specifically about that. Some will tell you there is safety in numbers, some will only use TOR anyway, most simply aren't even aware that if a VPN is run from within any country, then that country likely is tapping their lines for whatever intel they can get. It's kind of a clusterf*ck these days but the most popular ones should work for normal needs like torrents.