Playboy Online manages assets located in Montreal conglomerate MindGeek, and the adoption of Bitcoin is likely initiated MindGeek, instead of "Playboy". Payment in Bitcoin until there was only a subdomain plus.playboy.com and not available to users on the official website of Playboy. iPlayboy, online archive of magazines, too, does not yet have this payment option, at least for now
If the association Bitcoin and brand "Playboy" more important for the headlines but the company MindGeek (former Manwin Group) for the Bitcoin ecosystem would be more important. MindGeek owns a large number of other brands, and including Brazzers Reality Kings - each of which, in turn, serves to 30 websites. MindGeek services giants such as YouPorn, PornHub.com and Mofos.
Avi Bitton, director of a California studio adult movies Wicked Pictures, told CoinDesk, that Playboy Plus - this is only one of the sites, which will be offered bitcoin payment option. Deployment of the new payment options goes on all major websites MindGeek, insiders report.
This Account Fees option. Think of a big company, which owns multiple domains. New payment option will be available first on one or two sites, to work out all the details. When done right, it applies to all sites.
The tests begin
News about testing new payment options in the company MindGeek received in February from one of the members of the board reddit. He also said that IKnowThatGirl.com, a subsidiary of Mofos and MindGeek, also accepts payments in bitcoins for access to "adult" content.
Another brand of this industry, Brazzers, was going to start to accept payments in Bitcoin, but officially did not. This started talking after a discussion on this topic on reddit site in January, when the representatives of Brazzers answered questions from users about the possibility of receiving a digital currency that it 'will soon. " Brazzers team confirmed that in case of successful tests on Playboy and IKnowThatGirl, bitcoins will take many, and perhaps even all websites MindGeek.
Both sites where this payment option is tested, is used as processing BitPay, thus showing the increasing deployment of companies in the industry that "adult content". Note that Porn.com, and Naughty America, two of the largest bitcoin participant in the industry for adults, also take bitcoins through BitPay.
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Entertaining adult sites trying to scout out the situation with payments in Bitcoin, despite the fact that they can not be used for the decommissioning of periodic payments, as many industry players are accustomed to do with credit cards. Coinbase offers periodic reminders to users about the need to re-subscribe, but not regular, automatic billing. Without the approval of the user with their accounts nothing ever will be charged. Maybe it's not really like the suppliers, but the users have full control.
In recent weeks Porn.com and Naughty America began to accept bitcoins, in the case of Porn.com is immediately increased their sales by 10% thanks to the emergence of new payment options. Naughty America has refused to disclose the exact figures, but also burning enthusiasm for the results.
Adding MindGeek websites in the list of sites that accept bitcoins, will have a significant effect on the economy of digital currency. Blog TheRichest, dedicated to lifestyle, he says:
"Content sites MindGeek among the three companies in the world, generating the most traffic. Their empire includes more than 73 web site - free, paid and webcams. It was reported that the company brings more than $ 200 million US dollars in annual revenue. "
Pornhub.com occupies 84th place in the world in terms of web traffic and 53 th place in the United States. But YouPorn.com occupies 105th place in the world and 117th place in the US in the number of visits to the site.
And finally, given that the Playboy brand is a leader in the industry "for adults", acceptance of Bitcoin serve as an example for all other companies in the industry ..