{"id":1293,"date":"2022-01-21T17:14:23","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T17:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cryptoheretostay.com\/?p=1293"},"modified":"2022-01-21T17:14:25","modified_gmt":"2022-01-21T17:14:25","slug":"boston-nurse-fired-for-nudes-on-onlyfans-launches-crypto-porn-app-cointelegraph-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cryptoheretostay.com\/?p=1293","title":{"rendered":"Boston nurse fired for nudes on OnlyFans launches crypto porn app \u2013 Cointelegraph Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\namzn_assoc_placement = \"adunit0\";\r\namzn_assoc_tracking_id = \"totafreearti-20\";\r\namzn_assoc_ad_mode = \"search\";\r\namzn_assoc_ad_type = \"smart\";\r\namzn_assoc_marketplace = \"amazon\";\r\namzn_assoc_region = \"US\";\r\namzn_assoc_default_search_phrase = \"crypto\";\r\namzn_assoc_default_category = \"All\";\r\namzn_assoc_search_bar = \"false\";\r\namzn_assoc_title = \"\";\r\namzn_assoc_rows =\"1\";\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"\/\/z-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/onejs?MarketPlace=US\"><\/script>\n<p>Former Boston ICU nurse Allie Rae made international news in August last year after she was fired for running an extremely naughty OnlyFans account on the side. The story appeared everywhere from the NY Post to CNN and The Daily Beast \u2014 and she even made an appearance on Dr. Phil.<\/p>\n<p>The resulting publicity saw fans subscribing in droves, and the 37-year-old mother of three now makes more than $200,000 a month.<\/p>\n<p>But the same sort of moralizing and censorship that ended her nursing career also threatens her newfound wealth from OnlyFans. Just six days after her story was made public, OnlyFans announced it would ban \u201csexually explicit\u201d content, under pressure from its banking partners.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen the news broke about the payment processing and OnlyFans, I began looking at other platforms to switch to, and quickly realized they too could fall into the same trap down the road,\u201d Rae says on the line from her new home in crypto-friendly Florida.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was at that time that I figured out crypto was the answer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s assembled a team of 20 developers and is putting the finishing touches on a new OnlyFans-meets-Instagram-style crypto-powered social platform called WetSpace. It\u2019s due to launch in beta in February, accepting payments in a range of stablecoins across different chains to mitigate issues with gas fees. NFT support will come in the project\u2019s second stage mid-year.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Porn has long been seen as one of the best chances crypto has for adoption: Users can remain anonymous, and performers don\u2019t have to deal with payment processors charging them high fees or unilaterally cutting off services under opaque morality clauses.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Despite this, as Magazine discovered in the past, crypto payments have failed to take off. Pornhub tried and failed with Verge, then moved to using Pumapay\u2019s service, which was crippled by high gas fees on Ethereum and is in the process of relaunching on Binance Smart Chain. SpankChain attempted a more modest platform targeting crypto users but has had limited success so far, though it\u2019s still in the game and is developing \u201cSpankPay V2\u201d based on user feedback. CumRocket is developing an NFT marketplace but reports limited availability of its CUMMIES token on exchanges.<\/p>\n<p>Rae believes a major problem is trying to launch projects with related adult tokens. \u201cI had been watching the fall of other \u2018adult shitcoins\u2019 and how their model was destined to fail serving two masters \u2014 creators and holders. That is when WetSpace came about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rae points out that adult coins add an extra step to the process, and most are very volatile, which isn\u2019t attractive to users or models.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I thought, \u2018Well, we don\u2019t need a coin, like, why go through all the drama of this coin? Of course, you\u2019d get a lot of money up front, and it would definitely help fund your project. But luckily, I didn\u2019t need to be concerned about the financial side of it because I had the money to put into it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>How she got here<\/p>\n<p>The mother of three teenage sons, Rae is an unlikely pornstar-turned-crypto-entrepreneur. She joined the Navy at 17 and married her husband, Steven, the following year (he sometimes stars in her videos). She then worked for five years in marketing, management and real estate before getting her dream job in nursing. \u201cI was obsessed,\u201d she says. \u201cI was a straight-A nursing student. It was truly my passion and still is, it really is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rae received a Masters in Nursing Education and specialized in neonatal intensive care, nursing sick babies back to health. \u201cEven though it was such a tragic time for so many families, there were also so many great moments,\u201d she says. \u201cI was a wonderful NICU nurse. Very, very good at my job.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But bored at home during the pandemic, she started up an Instagram account, posting about hockey and craft beer. This attracted a devoted male following, some of whom suggested she start an OnlyFans. When she read news reports that the actress Bella Thorne had made $1 million on the platform in a single day, she decided to take their advice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI posted a few pictures, and I really actually had kind of fun with it. It was quite liberating, you know, at my age. And before you knew it, I had so many subscribers, and we were actually making good money on there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>By the end of her first month, she\u2019d made $6,900 \u2014 more than the $6,500 she was paid as a nurse.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately for Rae, not everyone is a fan of OnlyFans, and a group of six of what she calls her \u201cmean girl\u201d colleagues, led by a pastor\u2019s wife, stumbled across her Instagram and then screenshotted her OnlyFans content for management.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>News spread like wildfire through the hospital, and that was \u201cultimately what, I think, drove management to have to act.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTheir overall consensus was that it was now such a distraction on the unit, with everybody knowing, that if I was going to continue to do that, I couldn\u2019t work there,\u201d she adds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wasn\u2019t mentally ready to leave. I\u2019ll tell you it was very difficult. There\u2019s a lot of tears shed in that. But I think given how toxic the environment was and how judged I felt there \u2014 I wasn\u2019t looked at the same \u2014 it was probably the right thing to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tailor-made for the media<\/p>\n<p>Firing an ICU nurse in the middle of a pandemic due to her porny OnlyFans account is an editor\u2019s wet dream (not Magazine, of course \u2014 we\u2019re strictly interested in the future of finance), and the story went viral. She went from making $35,000 a month from her side hustle to $200,000 a month thanks to the publicity. Steven gave up his airline job to help full time with the business.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur success was just unbelievable, and so it became hard to not make it a priority,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s crazy to go from being a suburban hockey mom\/nurse to now I\u2019m like this advocate for the sex industry. I mean, it\u2019s very, very different.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Porn payments<\/p>\n<p>Part of that advocacy is trying to figure out a way for creators and operators to escape the stranglehold that traditional payment processors have on it. In recent years, the war on adult sites by payment processors has ramped up, supported by the emotive campaigns of anti-porn crusaders.<\/p>\n<p>A case in point is the famed New York Times piece in December 2020 called The Children of Pornhub. Columnist Nicholas Kristof sensationally claimed the \u201csite is infested with rape videos. It monetizes child rapes, revenge pornography, spy cam videos of women showering, racist and misogynist content, and footage of women being asphyxiated in plastic bags.\u201d He argued the site facilitated sex trafficking and cited a petition with 2.1 million signatures calling for it to be closed.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Often mistakenly referred to as an investigation, the NYT billed the piece as \u201copinion,\u201d meaning its usual standards of fact-checking don\u2019t apply. Mashable summed up the piece as being based on the \u201cdubious and distorted findings and arguments of one anti-sex work conservative group.\u201d It caused a massive backlash, and Mastercard and Visa quickly announced they would no longer provide services to Pornhub, threatening the viability of the site.<\/p>\n<p>The deplatforming of sex sites by payment companies has ramped up considerably in recent years following the passing of the controversial\u00a0 \u00a0Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act and the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act (FOSTA-SESTA) in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Rae\u2019s first encounter with the issue came when OnlyFans caused outrage in August last year by announcing it would ban \u201csexually explicit\u201d content, threatening the livelihoods of 2 million creators making a collective $2.3 billion a year. OnlyFans founder and CEO Tim Stokely blamed BNY Mellon, Metro Bank and JPMorgan Chase for refusing to process payments, though the ban was quickly reversed after \u201cbanking partners\u2019 assurances that OnlyFans can support all genres of creators.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of people at that time were reaching out to me: \u2018What do you think about this? Oh, my gosh, where are you going? You\u2019re making so much money. Now where are you going to put your content?\u2019\u201d she recalls.<\/p>\n<p>Rae explains that she\u2019d considered other platforms but realized competitors \u201care at the mercy of the banks as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s when my brain really got to turn on to: What is the solution to this?\u201d she says.\u00a0 \u201cAt that time, I didn\u2019t fully understand the nature of what was going on. But I did a lot of research, and I started to really dive into the dark part of what\u2019s going on in terms of the big financial institutions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPorn is always looked at as taboo. There\u2019s a stigma out there. But the amount of control that these banking industries have, over every platform that runs primarily on fiat, is scary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Counterpoint<\/p>\n<p>She argues that OnlyFans gives creators a safer way to work in the sex industry than in a strip club or on the streets. And while she believes in taking firm action against sex trafficking and child pornography, she says those aims are only selectively pursued by payment processors.<\/p>\n<p>A 2020 survey from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children revealed Facebook had 20.3 million reported incidents of child sexual abuse materials, Google had 546,704 incidents, Twitter had 65,062, Snapchat 144,095 and TikTok 22,692.<\/p>\n<p>Way down the bottom of the list was Pornhub\u2019s parent company, MindGeek, with 13,000.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFacebook literally is the leader in child sex trafficking, and they\u2019re definitely not shutting them down,\u201d she says. \u201cHow much of it is in regards to them just truly wanting to get rid of the people in this industry (porn) and ban this type of content \u2014 is it really about child trafficking?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe banks are the issue across the board. And the only natural solution to that is, well, how do we get rid of the banks? Well, luckily, there\u2019s decentralization, and there\u2019s crypto.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Crypto and the porn industry<\/p>\n<p>Rae had dabbled in crypto previously, making a bundle off of Dogecoin when Elon Musk\u2019s tweets drove it to the moon and playing around with creating her own NFTs when CumRocket launched its NSFW NFT marketplace in mid-2021.<\/p>\n<p>She says the anonymity of crypto is perfect for users who want to sign up but can\u2019t afford to have an OnlyFans entry on their bank statements.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI get DMs all the time saying \u2018God, I wish I could join OnlyFans. But you know, I just can\u2019t have my accountant seeing all the charges.\u2019\u201d There\u2019s a huge market that a lot of creators aren\u2019t able to tap into.<\/p>\n<p>The WetSpace interface will look a lot like Instagram, with a feed, a discovery feature for creators and, later on, a marketplace enabling models to sell NFTs with added bonuses like free subscriptions, premium snaps or video chats. WetSpace will charge creators 15% (OnlyFans charges 20%), and they can select which cryptocurrencies to accept. They receive the money instantly and don\u2019t have to worry about chargebacks.<\/p>\n<p>Rae says it\u2019s about 90% complete right now, with new features being added all the time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a Discord that\u2019s really poppin. Lots of creators saying, \u2018Hey, are we gonna have this? Can we do this?\u2019 And I\u2019m like, \u2018Yes, we\u2019re gonna have so many great things.\u2019 I think it\u2019s going to be a fun place to be for the user and the creator. And I\u2019m excited, and I hope it revolutionizes this entire industry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, but\u2026<\/p>\n<p>While there\u2019s no doubting her ambitions, so far crypto payments in porn haven\u2019t really worked out. In early 2020, SpankChain performer and ambassador Allie Eve Knox explained why to Magazine:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are old dudes that are just trying to get off and then now they have to go through this whole thing of creating a wallet, saving a seed phrase, getting crypto, moving it into a wallet. [\u2026] It\u2019s not just \u2018I\u2019m gonna go buy porn in 15 minutes and relieve myself\u2019 process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rae, however, believes times have changed and that the tech is more widespread and user-friendly than ever before. She concedes the biggest hurdle will be helping noobs get started, but there will be step-by-step explainers and guides on how to buy crypto through a connected Coinbase, MetaMask or Trust wallet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want very, very clear clicks: like \u2018sign up for your wallet here\u2019 step-by-step because I do understand it is a learning curve. We are putting a lot of time and money into the educational side of this. Because it truly is really easy once you get going.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCrypto is in your face everywhere now. A couple of years ago, people would laugh at you if you talked about Bitcoin. People were like, \u2018Oh, God, one of those Bitcoin people!\u2019 And look at it now. It\u2019s an actual currency. I think a lot of people who didn\u2019t believe in it before are definitely starting to be like, \u2018Okay, what is this all about?\u2019 And they\u2019re wanting to know more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no doubt in my mind: It will be a very, very big part of pornography, or any type of subscription base for adult content,\u201d she says. \u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s going away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\namzn_assoc_placement = \"adunit0\";\r\namzn_assoc_tracking_id = \"totafreearti-20\";\r\namzn_assoc_ad_mode = \"search\";\r\namzn_assoc_ad_type = \"smart\";\r\namzn_assoc_marketplace = \"amazon\";\r\namzn_assoc_region = \"US\";\r\namzn_assoc_default_search_phrase = \"bitcoin\";\r\namzn_assoc_default_category = \"All\";\r\namzn_assoc_search_bar = \"false\";\r\namzn_assoc_title = \"\";\r\namzn_assoc_rows =\"1\";\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"\/\/z-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/onejs?MarketPlace=US\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/magazine\/2022\/01\/21\/nurse-fired-for-onlyfans-launches-crypto-porn-app\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Boston ICU nurse Allie Rae made international news in August last year after she was fired for running an extremely naughty OnlyFans account on the side. 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