PayPal stops payouts to models on Pornhub

Post by yifanl » Thu, Nov 14, 2019, 9:06 PM UTC

1000units wrote: post #80

errantspark wrote: post #77

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What's the percentage of porn-related shadiness is because our society and business culture forces that? It seems similar to drug prohibitions etc. I haven't had to deal with a shady drug dealer in years now that weed is legal. Maybe if vice-clauses and the like weren't so ubiquitous we'd see more upright actors in the field.

Almost none of it. Mentally stable people do not want strangers to ejaculate into their mouth on camera for money. Those willing are easily taken advantage of. edit: Many downvotes! Let's hear the dissent. I'll faithfully engage. edit: 'dang, can we please remove flagging privileges from whoever targeted this comment? Thanks.

Post by Qwertystop » Thu, Nov 14, 2019, 9:08 PM UTC

a13n wrote: post #84

egdod wrote: post #22

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Nothing better than receiving your salary in a token with huge minute-to-minute volatility.

Crypto replaces a major painpoint (chargeback, getting 0% of your money) with a minor painpoint (volatility, losing or gaining There are other cryptocurrencies (eg Tether) that follow USD (eg 1 Tether is almost always equal to $1.00 USD), to avoid issues with volatility. I guess another issue is that you'd have to pay taxes on any gains/losses between receiving your crypto and cashing it in for USD, and that would be…

Post by rvz » Thu, Nov 14, 2019, 9:08 PM UTC

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> Real alternatives to paypal and credit cards need to enter the market. They already have. They're called cryptos. [edit]: judging by the downvotes, looks like the sheep instinct is strong on HN

Cryptocoins aren't practical enough (yet?) to rely on completely for stuff like this. If the flow has any more friction than "payer enters their credit card info once, then agrees to send a value; payee receives it in their bank account at a set time and can immediately use it to buy groceries", it's going to seriously affect some people's incomes. I'm not downvoting you for that, FYI, but I am downvoting you for the…

  1. Scan a QR Code to send cryptocurrencies to the payee.

  2. Type the address of the recipient into the form / app and send the amount.

  3. Coinbase Card number / crypto address.

Post by naravara » Thu, Nov 14, 2019, 9:10 PM UTC

toomuchtodo wrote: post #21

mrandish wrote: post #12

Perhaps an opportunity for Pornhub themselves to get into the payments business? I assume they have enough transactional volume and vendors to make it happen.

My hunch is that would incur unwanted liability from FOSTA-SESTA [1]. Producing content and paying talent out directly is fairly straightforward for adult entertainment. There be dragons if you're attempting to build a marketplace to do something similar. "The Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act (SESTA) and Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA) are the U.S. Senate and House bills that as…

Post by mopsi » Thu, Nov 14, 2019, 9:12 PM UTC

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20 years after the invention of the light bulb, one of the most important inventions of all time, only 3% in the U.S. were using it. We sometimes forget it, but a decade isn't a long time.

LOL. And don't forget it took tens to hundreds of thousands of years after the discovery of fire to adopt the internal combustion engine. A decade is an eternity in the tech world. If bitcoin had a use case, we'd all be using it by now.