Cryptocurrencies are the default payment method on Pornhub

The most important information:

• Leading credit card companies stopped working with Pornhub
• As a result, users of this platform can pay for premium services only in cryptocurrencies

Visa and Mastercard are leaving Pornhub

One of the biggest adult movie platforms lost the ability to accept credit cards while taking payment for its premium services last week. All this is due to the departure of Visa and Mastercard.

Currently, thanks to cooperation with the payment processor Probiller, Pornhub accepts 13 cryptocurrencies, these are: Bitcoin (BTC), Bitcoin Cash (BCH), DASH (DASH), Ether (ETH), Ethereum Classic (ETC), Litecoin (LTC), Monero ( XMR), Nem (XEM), Tether (USDT), Tron (TRX), Zcash (ZEC), Verge (XVG) and Waves (WAVES).

Unfortunately, we are unable to accept credit cards at this time.

- informs Pornhub through a message on the main page with premium services.

The cryptocurrency community's response

Numerous discussions on this topic on Reddit show that some perceive it as a positive phenomenon for the industry. People who have never used cryptocurrencies before, and are Pornhub users, will have to buy them due to the fact that it is the only acceptable form of payment so far.

The flip side of the coin, however, may cast a negative light on crypto assets. Visa and Mastercard must have had a specific reason to stop working with this platform - or more precisely, after the New York Times published a report on the content of harassing women and involving minors in sexual acts that have occurred. on Pornhub.

On Monday, the platform removed such videos from its site, while stressing that it "suspended all uploaded content that was not created by partners or members of a program consisting of verified users." As it turns out, before that, anyone could put adult videos on Pornhub.