Pornhub, the world's largest adult content website said, today that it would only accept cryptocurrency as the default payment method.
According to its official website, Pornhub currently accepts 13 cryptocurrencies including BTC, ETH, BCH, DASH, ETC, LTC, XMR, XEM, USDT, TRX, XVG, ZEC and Waves. In early April 2018, it began accepting cryptocurrencies as a means of payment.
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It has been reported that MasterCard and Visa stopped supporting Pornhub after New York Times columnist Nicholas Christoph showed inappropriate and illegal videos on a large number of sites, such as child abuse, last week. It also means that the renewal of 14 million paid members of the site will be paid for in cryptocurrency.
According to similar figures, Pornhub is currently ranked 10th in the world, in the past 6 months, monthly page views have risen above 3.2 billion, and it reached a peak of 3.617 billion in August this year, which means The average daily is also over 110 million visits, equivalent to the total population of Canada, Australia, Poland and the Netherlands.
From a regional point of view, in 2020, the United States, Japan, Germany, France and the United Kingdom accounted for about 50% of Pornhub's traffic sources. Among them, the United States led the way, contributing 23.76% of the traffic, followed by Japan, reaching 10.37%.
According to data from Chainalysis, the US 2020 Global Cryptocurrency Adoption Index cannot be underestimated. With the payment giant paypal becoming one of the gateways to the cryptocurrency market, the future of crypto payments will also be worth looking forward to.
