{"id":252359,"date":"2018-03-14T17:08:22","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T15:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=252359"},"modified":"2018-03-14T17:08:22","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T15:08:22","slug":"playboy-to-accept-cryptocurrency-payments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cryptocurrency\/252359-playboy-to-accept-cryptocurrency-payments.html","title":{"rendered":"Playboy to accept cryptocurrency payments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Playboy has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/playboy-enterprises-to-introduce-cryptocurrency-wallet-for-use-on-its-online-platforms-300613636.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>announced<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0it will allow customers to pay for its adult content using cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n<p>The company plans to roll out a dedicated cryptocurrency wallet on its Playboy TV platform this year.<\/p>\n<p>The Playboy TV wallet will use the Vice Industry Token (VIT) cryptocurrency, which aims to track user engagement with adult content.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As the popularity of alternative payment methods continues to grow around the world, along with the reach of Playboy&#8217;s digital platforms, we felt it was important to give our 100 million monthly consumers increased payment flexibility,&#8221; said Playboy.<\/p>\n<p>The company said it would consider integrating the cryptocurrency wallet with its other divisions, including gaming and augmented reality.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cryptocurrency\/252007-crypto-exchange-offers-250000-bounty-for-hackers.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Crypto exchange offers $250,000 bounty for hackers<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Playboy will allow customers to pay for its adult content using cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":93337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44696],"tags":[49449,49447,8003],"class_list":["post-252359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cryptocurrency","tag-adult-content","tag-cryptocurrency-wallet","tag-playboy-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252359"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252365,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252359\/revisions\/252365"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}