Crypto for adult entertainment and Zomato’s shenanigans

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Editor's note: You know it’s not an average day when you find yourself in an encrypted chat with the founder of a crypto-blockchain adult entertainment company.  If you’ve been around the internet recently, you probably know about OnlyFans. What began as a platform aimed at connecting creators with their followers on a “personal level” in 2016, quickly morphed into one of the most successful internet companies to run a content subscription service. Most importantly, it became a safe haven for those who wanted to make adult content and sell it.  Today, OnlyFans claims a registered user base of more than 150 million. It works with a massive creator ecosystem comprising nearly 1 million creators, with the top 1% of them making more than $100,000 a year on the platform. So when the company decided to ban explicit content by 1 October after it faced pressure while seeking investors and got the cold shoulder from banking institutions, nobody was pleased, with many calling the move anti-sex work. This backlash from the company’s most loyal followers eventually led to the platform overturning this ban …