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A year and a bit after Verge bought its way onto Pornhub and not sure how many months after Tron bought its way onto Pornhub it finally happened. Visa stopped offering its services to Pornhub, so they were forced to seriously looking into cryptocurrencies and finally add Monero as a payment option.  I will not be surprised if after a year Monero become most used payment option on Pornhub. Why would people want their neighbours know they use Pornhub?

https://i.imgur.com/MyvfJ66.png

I'm not sure it's so much related to Visa or it's a happy coincidence, but Monero was an obvious choice that was missing from the list.

Maybe some customers think that paying with Bitcoin is fine since not many know yet about Bitcoin, but I hope that they'll think twice and understand that in a few years it's be easy (it's already easy in many cases) to make a "map" of everything a person has bought with Bitcoin, including PonrnHub subscription and maybe they understand the real value of Monero.

I really have a big question between the settlement of USDT TRC20 and Monero. I feel that using USDT is still stable and better than XMR, since the price is not volatile and transactions always have fee of 0.

USDT - TRC20 has great block handling speed and in addition it is fee free in transactions. As for using XMR, we run the risk of having to sell off after buying or incurring high transaction fees. So why should we choose XMR and celebrate it like that? Does a privacy coin have a special function than Tether? :-\

I really thought they were just accepting 3 cryptocurrency but based on the image that you provided they have a lot of varieties of cryptocurrency to choose from. Looks like that they are expending their mode of payment.

Wasn’t it verge which got negative affect and got criticism among the community when Pornhub started to accept verge?
No doubt, Monero was the most needed privacy coin for such private tx but there is different kind of analysis which may soon identify the monero tx also.

Why would monero become most used when there are other crypto especially the bitcoin. I know the reason why you said that was because of the full anonymity that monero offer but I strongly believe only people that knows the difference in anonymity with other crypto that might consider it. Most people that will make payment using crypto will use bitcoin or ethereum. The use of crypto in porn site I must say is over due. They must have added this a long time ago especially such site that have visitors from around the world. For instance we are being restricted in my country for making international payment using debit card. So accepting crypto will make me possible to access such service

It's a good news for all those monero maximalist. This not actually a big news just like what you are describing but still have some good effect in crypto overall because it just mean that pornhub are expanding the application of crypto in there website which we all know they are the most famous and large income in porn industry. Soon they will add more payment option depends on the partnership or community request.

It's not about how the speed blockchain because if that is the only basis then BTC should be remove as payment option since its the slowest of them all. They are considering the volume of the user of the cryptocurrency before they add it on there payment option.

The problem with privacycoins is that governments really don't like them, they already started demanding from exchanges to delist them, and maybe in the future privacycoins will be so strongly associated with cybercrime, that no legitimate business would want to use them, because it would only bring suspicion to them. This is not to say that privacycoins are inherently evil, but they are getting a bad reputation rather quickly. So, in this scenario, Pornhub and other sites might drop them in the future.

Pornhub's can accept any cryptos if they wanted to do so, in fact, they are already acquiring a number of cryptos already seems that this event isn't special, and expecting that these gonna be happening all the way as we are establishing a good market relationship among merchants and online sites. Thus, if they are accepting XMR this time, it possible that they were accepting more in the future days. This could be the best opportunity for crypto holders to maximize their coins.

Accepting Monero or any privacy coin would do the alternative for them after being declined by their main payment method. I get the idea of what if the same or other service that uses those payment methods stops supporting these clients.

There will be a massive acceptance for crypto in no time, bitcoin, monero, other altcoins. As in almost every possible accepted crypto. A huge volume would come in and demand for it.

Well, privacy really matters in cryptocurrencies and especially people who want to get subscriptions for porn-related services will have privacy as more priority over the transaction fees. Even bitcoin is not completely anonymous so that is the reason having Moenro like privacy coin is more welcomed by the pornhub users.

Tron-based USDT is actually faster with no fees but tether is completely centralized so it's like banks know that for what you are actually using those funds which most people don't want to happen.

Cool! No more questions from my wife about 'suspicious' transactions :D With privacy coins - even better!
 
Too bad that Pornhub was hit from the latest investigation about under 18 videos and now they are blocking almost all content uploads.

Monero transaction fee is less than 0.2 cent. I believe almost everywhere in the world can people afford such fees. Even in places where average day salary is less than $10 a day.

How about the drama on Cypher Trace's tool to trace Monero transactions? I doubt that Cypher Trace tools can crack down the anonymous transactions on Monero network. Is it a drama to crack the price of Monero only. After the drama as bad news, Pornhub brings a good news to Monero fans.

CipherTrace Files Two Monero Cryptocurrency Tracing Patents (https://ciphertrace.com/ciphertrace-files-two-monero-cryptocurrency-tracing-patents/)
CipherTrace Says Homeland Security Work Gave Rise to Monero-Tracking Patent Filings (https://www.coindesk.com/ciphertrace-monero-cryptocurrency-payments-tracing-dhs)

It's a good business move for them to expand and include crypto as options. As the OP have said, Monero provides anonymity so this is a plus for their customers and for Pornhub as well.

And I will say that this is good news overall for crypto market. Every industry as now looking at crypto as payment methods so it's a win-win for us. I wouldn't be surprised if this industry and other companies are starting to look to crypto and will offer it the soonest.

It is not a good idea to receive payments from a highly volatile cryptocurrency.
Until now companies like PORNHUB have confidence in cryptocurrencies. But what if tomorrow all your cryptocurrencies have the value of $ 0? As an example
Stable coins are the most recommended for service payments.

I think they would have anticipated all the possibilty at that price volatile.
They really understand that adding monero which is a privacy coin and other cryptocurrency will be more beneficial for users because users feel safer that's transactions are not known by others.

Correct.
I am sure they went deep in research before adding this option.
Bitcoin is volatile and altcoins are affected somehow.
Maybe they tried to look at what coin has more stability even with the high fluctuation that's happening for the last couple of months.
Looking at graphs XMR moves 10-30 USD for the past 3 months.
It's not a bad choice.
I am thinking they might have other reasons for it. Just shy to find it out since Google'ing the company name may recommend nudity or worse.  :D
Might try incognito while digging.

I understand your sentiments, and you also have a point, Stable coins like USDT for example will prolly be better if the corporation is looking for stability to an extent, but in this case with Pornhub, I think privacy is their concern atm and not a coin with a stable network, and it's not so difficult to understand why they want to offer their customers some privacy looking at the service they offer, not a bad one, but not generally accepted by many; so I'm sure that's the reason Monero is being adopted by Pornhub.
We're already in a situation such as this, Bitcoin is now being adopted amongst traditional institutions that people thought wouldn't consider investing in a cryptocurrecy, not to talk of incorporating it as their reserve asset; as many altcoins that continue to work and develop their network, they are going to move high as well with Btc, since they all serve different purposes, some stable coins, others privacy coins, some used for low fees, etc, people can accept and use them all, as long as they don't turn into shady networks.

Looks like the adult industry is now accepting cryptocurrency, never thought that they already accepting a variety of cryptocurrency not just Monero and Bitcoins the cryptocurrency is really spreading now that's really nice.

okay look like this site, is grow up more and more bigger, last i hear they accept verge for payment in their site.
now they accept also monero, its looklike porn industries is grow up and never decreased.
i think in near future will accept more coin as payment.

Finally i have a real use case for my monero  ;D. Accepting monero seems like a direct middle finger pointed to visa and i kinda like their attitude. And this fits Monero's imago perfectly and it's the only crypto that makes sense on this site.

It's not a surprise seeing Monero as a new addition to payment options on Pornhub since the likes of VERGE, DASH have been added already. Monero remains my most favorite privacy coin, and this is good news for it since it's all about adoption. Many people care about privacy when dealing with adult industry hence in the long run I also support OP's opinion, Monero will be a good preference for payment on Pornhub everything being equal.

I remember how drug ads were found on YouTube and many companies left, but the visa did not respond. And here, at first glance, one does not understand that the girl was 14 years old, but it was a mistake, but not so much as to completely break the relationship.

An interesting fact - pornography and any sources of its distribution, except for the porno hub, are prohibited in Russia.
The age of the participants is checked through the social network
https://vk.com/
The social network vk.com trusts its users and does not verify the data.
This is how pornography is legally distributed in Russia, and the state does not allow other services to work. For such a violation, the organizers are imprisoned.

Sex is selling mehn ;D ;D and viewers will do anything to see premium videos, there are handles that doesn't allow guest to view all videos hence making them private, this is why these services has increased the used of cryptocurrency in general since PayPal aren't accepted in every country.
On a second thoughts, why did they integrate monero as part of their payment system. I believe they are well informed and aware that regulation bodies don't like monero, I hope this wouldn't bring problems in the future. It will be hell globally if they crack down por*hub.  ;D ;D

Same. I did not know that they accept Waves and others. At least the particular projects didn't promote it. I don't know if you didn't know it or if you are "embarrassed" :D Visa and Mastercard have terminated their collaboration with Pornhub. So it's no big surprise that Pornhub is now looking to provide for alternative payment options.

of course Monero is the choice of pornhub, because Monero is one of the best anonymous coins,
everyone uses Monero a lot, it seems that Monero has been in the crypto currency world for a very long time, a
nd still remains in the top 100 coinmarketcap.

Who cares? They already accept many coins so it is not surprising to add more coins.
It is better for cryptocurrencies to move forward if giant real world daily use companies start accepting crypto like amazon and other physical grocery and retail stores so i think big names should try to incorporate cryptocurrencies in real world economy to really make it mainstream.

Awesome, for popular porn sites like pornhub to adopt the usefulness of blockchain shows cryptocurrency is now hugely accepted worldwide, I guess pornhub chooses Monero because of low transaction fee.

That is absolutely because of the ban of payments to their website by mastercard, visa card and discover as a result of allegations of child abuse levelled against them. I just don't understand why any porn site will be featuring and sexualizing underage girls like they do.

Why limit your post title to only mentioning Monero?

I mean I'm happy for Monero because this means they have a use case outside of darkmarkets  :D but they've clearly added a lot more; lets list them:

BCH
DASH
ETH
ETC
LTC
XMR
XEM
USDT
TRX
XVG
WAVES
ZEC

Bottom line: don't give a shit because I'm not paying for porn, but ultimately any time of potential adoption is good, so all the more power to those who do...

i forgot if verge created first before tron but tron is more popular than verge but still they added verge first in thier platform ? ah whatever .  trx is still added now anyway but why would a big company such as visa will end thier relationship to such a big porn player in the iundustry thesedays such as pornhub .

oh well , there must be a solid reason for that but why would pornhub adds crypto instead of finding a simillar alternative to visa ( non crypto ) because not all users till this date knows anything about crypto and theres a good number of cryptos already supported by them .

Monero can be tracked, at least Verge was private and fairly mineable.

But anything related to porn is still prohibited in many countries, including my country, Indonesia. The government continues to block pornographic sites, including PornHub. Yes, I see there are some adult projects accept Cryptocurrency, there are even bounty projects are porn / adult based.

Many underestimate adult sites like Pornhub have no effect on cryptocurrency, but for me Pornhub as the most popular adult site
today with very many members who can popularize cryptocurrency. And I am also sure that Pornhub accepted Monero and was very
welcomed by Pornhub's premium members who wanted privacy, because we know Monero is the most popular privacy coins compared
to the others. And Monero it is very suitable for adoption by adult companies that really need privacy.

That's the reason why VPN exist, it's to bypass the restrictions in your country. Having them integrate Monero to their service would make people in the countries like yours flock pornhub again because of the anonymous nature of the said cryptocurrency, assuming they want to use Monero for the benefits.

Anyways, we now have at least 2 giant companies that has making significant leap in adopting cryptocurrencies.

I have seen that so many cryptocurrencies that have been registered on pornhub for monero payments have entered the list and it makes it easy for pornhub users to buy premium members but monero gas costs and prices are also very not very stable which makes higher payments, of course, what is interesting monero has Investors are so large that PornHub puts it on their payments if they think USDT TRC20 is the best option for payments because it's easier and faster.

I agree with you about the case of Monero being mostly used and this is because of its outstanding features like privacy and anonymity, and till date it has remained the best in that aspect. However, this is really a good involvement from Pornhub because they realised if they wait any longer for VISA to accept them back, they might lose their business and customers and hence looking towards crypto, therefore this also confirms the fact that crypto has come to say and will also contribute its qouta in keeping and advancing businesses such that, they do not lose their customers but keeps gaining more.
Lastly, when most people finds out that Monero has been added and it has a privacy feature, I think more people will use this particular adult industry more than others, since they know their identity is hidden.

Crypto was being utilized in dark industries like porn, drugs from long time. People can easily hide the identity. It feels good when we find real life use of crypto. Cause we desire global adoption. But personally I think, these sorts of use case of crypto actually create bad image. When there was no crypto, there were porns, drugs dealing. But people used to think that crypto was made for such bad dealings.

Wow，it is so excited to look at the picture you upload, it's 14 kinds of cryptos already accepted by pornhub, and 4 out of 14 are anonymous, XMR,DASH,ZEC,XVG, the big 4 anonymity coin all in pornhub this website. Frankly speaking, i prefer to pay with anonymous coins on this kind of website, i do not want my neighbours know i use pornhub too.

well no one wanted to know that you uses adult website even though they make sure that if you pay using payment providers and they make sure it's discreet in receipt i think paying with cryptocurrency is way more better than it. there's really have a lot options to choose from well it's nice to see a lot of known websites are now accepting cryptocurrency.

Only this time I found out that Pronhub now accepting cryptocurrency as mode of payment I maybe late to discovered this I could say that this was one of the good news for Monero holders and believers too. Aside from this Monero is also one of the good in terms of its privacy and anonymity just like that.

It's good to know that Pornhub is accepting cryptocurrency as a payment method because it would be convenient for people and crypto users to make an online transaction without using their credit cards to purchase a premium account in Pornhub. But it would be hilarious to know that there are people who will definitely purchase a premium account using their cryptocurrencies in Pornhub. LOL.

The list is full of currencies with small commissions such as XEM TRX XVG WAVES, these are the ones that I know for sure so no one will overpay.

It's only about time you're soon gonna hear xbox and Playstation accepting Bitcoins as a preferred payment option lol.
At the same time when you actually think about is, its not really that simple is it? to make payment using crypto currencies. Someone who's not into these stuff are simply gonna use the traditional way of payment option like card or netbanking.

It's now defaulted only for crypto payment and I think, they will no longer accept Mastercard or Visa as a payment processor just because some countries blocking funds to this adult site due to some restrictions.  Monero is one of the best payment methods when it comes to privacy, I didn't surprise if this coin belongs to the selection as a payment processor.

You can read it here for more information regarding that matter, Pornhub: Now Accepting Crypto Only (https://decrypt.co/51478/pornhub-now-accepting-crypto-only) (NSFW).

I think OP you need to add (NSFW) in your title thread.

After visa stop providing its payment service for pornhub as well as Visa and Mastercard block the use of cards on website. Monero would be a great alternative. I am happy for it now crypto would replace Fiat to enjoy the service and that's a great initiative.

After both Visa and Mastercard stopped paying for the premium Pornhub https://decrypt.co/51478/pornhub-now-accepting-crypto-only package last week, payment in cryptocurrencies was introduced by default. Today and Justin Sun shared the news that "Pornhub accepts #TRON (TRX) and Tether ($USDT) on #TRON." on his Twitter account: https://twitter.com/justinsuntron/status/1338743573911543808?s=21

There is nothing NSFW in my thread. It is a thread about a change of payment options from credit cards to cryptocurrencies. What I should add is that you cant use cryptocurrencies if you are located in Europe. From Europe you have only SEPA pay option, so pay from your bank.

Well, it looks like that other coins have been accepted long before Monero. As the screenshot states there was Bitcoin of course, but also ETH, Bitcon Cash, Dash, even Verge and Waves were accepted before Monero. So it does not seem that Monero is the first choice when it comes to anonymous payments in this case.

People is more excited with this news, basically that their mindset specifically to those young people who had more fantasies with porns. It's funny to hear this kinds of news but, porn industries were now evolving so they used cryptocurrency as payment to ride on the popularity of payment system which they thought an effective ways to run their business successfully and earn much better profit.

This sounds funny but actually another innovation. I told someone that soon everything in life will start accepting Cryptocurrency and it's happening. Watch out how 2021 would be with Cryptocurrency. I am afraid those yet to know cryptocurrency or hear about it will definitely regret not ever doing it since once they start making the money. Cryptocurrency is the digital future and currency future. Watch it unfold soon.

I read the news that Pornhub was left without Fiat money. Mastercard and Visa refused to provide their services after news of the video with minors.Now Pornhub should only rely on cryptocurrencies. To date, the site offers payments in bitcoin, TRON, Litecoin, USDT, and several other smaller altcoins.

There were already accepting crypto ao I do not think there was a need to add more, the only thing they have done by adding monero is perhaps to give a privacy coin option.

Pornhub, as usual, is ahead of everyone and it is clear why, because the main task of Pornhub is, of course, making money and therefore Pornhub is trying to add as many different cryptocurrencies as possible to its services, and now they have added Monero and I think Pornhub will not stop here, I think in the near future time it will be possible to see news related to Pornhub and cryptocurrencies again.

It was a need to add more. Visa and Mastercard dropped their support to PornHub. They were left solely dependant on crypto. If there would be no crypto thy would basically shoot their doors.

maybe their goal adding several cryptocurrency in their payment system used for protect their customer banking data. user will feel comfort when they could deposit with anonymous system. and ofcourse they want to attract new users from crypto community.

I think it's high time for them to introduce cryptocurrency as the main payment method.
An interesting fact is that they delayed this for a very long time, and if they had done it earlier, for example, 2 years ago, when Bitcoin cost $ 3000, they would have been able to make a lot of money.

regret always come lately, pornhub never imagine cryptocurrency price will soar like current moment. maybe they did it few years ago they will also got huge number of customers, especially from crypto communityt which is have hobby like pornhub services provided.

Nobody is late with what they are doing, after all cryptocurrency is known more widely during the hype of 2017, so it's only natural that many platforms choose to learn about cryptocurrency before deciding to use it as a main payment method.

Well, they can accept any crypto coin that they want to accept since they are a huge industry.

I'm quite curious though if there are some users of PornHub who are really paying membership thru crypto. One thing more is that I didn't tried myself to buy membership so if anybody tried to do it, can I ask what are the differences of buying membership and not buying one :).

Pornhub had to use different payment methods. Monero's features are well suited for this purpose. The privacy factor is very important, but its low votality can be a problem  :-\

Pornhub will still get a huge number of customers after they accept bitcoin and monero. That can give members more options to subscribe to their services, and that can boost cryptocurrency among their members. Maybe that can give a chance to crypto to grow and it will be no problem if the crypto popularity will start from the porn industry. After the other business knows about crypto, the other merchant will start to accept crypto, not just for bitcoin. But we still need to give them time to see if the result is good or need an evaluation.

Master and visa already cancelled working with them, but I doubt that they will accept this situation and just move to crypto, pornhub must be in a big buzz right now and they must be trying to figure out how they could be paid, they could even build their own pornhub payment method where you send money directly from your bank account, but this is a company that made god knows how many millions of dollars per month, they are a huge rich company, they will not be bankrupted based on just decision of credit card processors, they will probably work on getting their own done as well they are THAT big.

For years master and visa needed a competition and destroyed anyone that got closed, I assume this could be the last thing that breaks the barriers, there could be a competition that gets bigger.

Pornhub had to start working with as many cryptos as possible much earlier because it was a matter of time when Visa or Mastercard stop working with site. I don't think it will be a big problem for the users to pay with cryptocurrencies.

It's really amazing to add a payment system with altcoins lol, I hope it's not just this site but more stores. As the times advance and the payment system may make many stores interested in adding payments with altcoins.

Adding cryptocurrencies is good, but then Monero is not a coin that can boast of a lot of liquidity. And there are several cryptocurrency exchanges, which don't accept Monero, due to its association with dark markets. IMO, they should have limited their acceptance to top cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin and Bitcoin Cash. Accepting too many coins increases the maintenance expenses as well.

That's good news I read that Visa and master card severed their ties to Pornhub because of this they think of adding Cryptocurrency but not only Monero they should add more Cryptocurrency and not only privacy coin but top coins with low feeds and fast confirmation like Tron, Waves otr Litecoin and of course Bitcoin.

For the store, I think there are still many considerations they have to think about, especially for stores that are not online based, automatically they obviously don't want to use such payments, but for the website I think they will obviously accept it, especially if they already understand cryptocurrency and have collaborations with several parties that have good exchanges.

Naughty America did this and then porn hub i saw it when im trying to renew my membership since this is a good site for adult who's lonely this coming christmas, And this could be the great news for those who don't own credit card like me you can now pay using our crypto currency many people knew this about using crypto to pay online not only for local store who accepting bitcoin but thru payment online this could be the start of evolving our technology in this kind of payment methods By adding crypto into their website because crypto is the future.

I was not surprised to known that Pornhub accepts Monero, because from the start I was sure that Monero was very suitable
for Pornhub members who really need privacy coins like Monero. Actually I am quite disappointed with Pornhub why it is only
now accepting Monero for payments. But better late than never.

Great alternative indeed for those who don't have credit cards.

Or also to those who wanted to continue being anonymous, they can use this coin to enjoy the service without any trace knowing them.
Good response to evolve crypto services for sure there are many  people who are involve to this site loves to use crypto for paying the services.

I have never felt disappointed with pornhub. They are the leader of pornography provider not just with their product but also with new innovations that they keep adding every day. Despite of accepting monero, using this coin to purchase anything on the website is not a good idea, IMO, due to the fee and confirmation time. But this is good for the future. Maybe someday this coin will be even faster and stronger than any other coins

It is sad that I can only access to Pornhub through VPN. My country blocks this site cause they do not like people to watch adult content

We are still super early adopters. Bitcoin exist 11 years. Monero exist 6 years. PornHub is a big website with many customers. They simply did not need Monero. Creditcard companies put them in the corner and only then they started to search for solutions. Everything needs some time. Crypto might not go mainstream in this decade. But adoption as PornHub is doing will fro sure help with adoption.