Watching Porn as a Way to Endure Lockdown: 5 Streaming Services Accepting Cryptocurrency

According to the statistics, there was a massive increase in the number of people watching porn during the first round of total lockdown. Now, when most countries are strengthening limitations again, people need something to endure this, especially considering the holiday season.

Watching porn might not be the best way to spend the surplus of free time, but it is still better than nothing. That is why the activity of users is expected to surge further in these new lockdowns that are being imposed. Porn websites are taking this advantage to collect money in the form of cryptocurrency from clients who watch their videos online.

The impact of Coronavirus plague on porn habits

Due to the increase in loneliness, stress and social isolation, people tend to develop pornography habits. Google revealed that among the top 5 popular pornography site visited during the Covid-19 pandemic period from January 9 to May 25 2020 include xHamster, Porn, xVideos, XNXX and PornHub. 

Among the countries that visited these websites so often include China, Italy, Spain, France, United States, Sweden, respectively. These were among the countries that were hit first by Coronavirus, so they imposed lockdowns first than other nations. Some sites such as Pornhub offered free premium access for that period.

Most of the people in India have smartphones and that is the reason why we saw an increase of about 20% increase in the consumption of porn content in March during the Covid-19 lockdown, according to the data released by PornHub. The country registered a 95% increase in traffic to adult websites during the one-month lockdown.

Leaders in different European countries including Germany, Czech Republic, Germany have so far put a ban on nonessential activities and mass gatherings for over two months – December 2020 and January 2021, to reduce the spread of Covid-19 during the festive season.

This might force people to seek for virtual means of entertainment, including watching porn. Most services offer premium benefits with a wide variety of payment methods, including cryptocurrency. CoinIdol, a world blockchain news outlet, created a list of adult streaming services that accept cryptocurrency. 

Pornhub

Started in 2007, Pornhub is slowly turning into the industry leader in terms of providing online porn services. The website with over 130 million daily viewers and 1.1 billion monthly viewers now accepts Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies such as Tether (USDT), PumaPay, Litecoin (LTC), Verge, zencash, TRON and Horizen (ZEN). Their customers are increasingly paying for porn videos using various cryptocurrency options. The site is looking to expand its cryptocurrency payment options.

Pornhub services now accept cryptocurrency including Bitcoin, Verge, Litecoin, Zcash, Monero, Dash, Tether, Waves, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, Nem, Tron and Ethereum classic.

Visa and Mastercard partnered with this porn site in question to help its clients using premium services plan make payments through cryptocurrencies. To show that cryptocurrency is the king of the internet, Pornhub announced that the site doesn’t accept credit cards payments for premium services.

xHamster

XHamster started accepting cryptocurrency payments way back in 2017. This adult site accepts Bitcoin. However, according to its project manager, the site is not making much profits with cryptocurrency compared to the global billing options. Users on this platform are enjoying the privacy offered by cryptocurrency. Currently, BTC has no chargeback on xHamster.

Naughty America

Naughty America was founded in 2001 to offer porn video content to users. The company accepts digital payment options including digital currencies such as Bitcoin. Customers can now confidently subscribe to this channel using cryptocurrencies without being traced to watch and play online sex games.

Chaturbate

Chaturbate allows users to interact with pornstars and models. Users on this platform can pay models using Chaturbate coins which can be bought using Bitcoin. Customers are also allowed to tip their favorite pornstars and models directly in BTC or other 20 accepted cryptocurrencies such as Ethereum, Litecoin, XRM, Zcash, and others.

Spankchain

For the past few years, Spankchain webcam has shown a great dedication to digital currencies. The site even created its own cryptoasset dubbed SPANK and this coin is built on the Ethereum blockchain network. It’s also developed its own payment platform known as SpankPay. Some other digital currencies that are accepted on Spankchain include BTC, Monero, ETH, Zcash and LTC. Users prefer using privacy coins to pay for porn.