Top adult entertainment site Pornhub has revealed that PayPal has abruptly cut its payments service to the large numbers of live performers using its platform.
"We are all devastated by PayPal's decision to stop payouts to over a hundred thousand performers who rely on them for their livelihoods."
The company called on those models with PayPal options selected in their accounts to use one of its other provided methods of paying out.
These include direct deposits, checks and the verge cryptocurrency.
Pornhub announced it would accept verge payments in April of last year, saying it offered users privacy and convenience.
The site also said it would accept tron and zcash last June, although these options don't seem to have been passed on as payout options to performers.
With PayPal now withdrawn, it may be that Pornhub performers will increasingly turn to the cryptocurrency option, especially as bank accounts may be frozen if banks get a hint that porn is related to the payments.
At press time, the price of verge had risen 2 percent on the day to $0.003860, according to CoinMarketCap.
The thread is further littered with crypto community members calling for Pornhub to widen its payment options to other coins such as bitcoin, litecoin and others.
Dedicated adult industry crypto project SpankChain also made a twin promotion/PayPal criticism with the tweet: "Clearly somebody deserves to be Spanked."
PayPal's Axing of PornHub Model Payments May Boost Verge Crypto
Published on Nov 14, 2019
by Coindesk | Published on Coinage
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