Yeah very cool story. I love these kind of stories when Bitcoin changes people's life. The true power of Bitcoin opposed to the money launderers, drug dealers and other nonsense you hear whenever Bitcoin is mentioned.

Seems odd that your vpn is blocking that link. Does it block other video / media content for you? I use Mullvad VPN and haven't had any issues around nostr. Not sure why your VPN would block that link. Can you set an exception for nostr hosts like satellite?