Monero for sex workers

As long as the credit card companies have a near monopoly on payments, they will be an irresistible pressure point for anti-sex work activists in government to lean on. (See Operation Chokepoint I/II.) Therefore, I encourage sex workers to help break the Visa/Mastercard/Amex monopoly by adopting cryptocurrency payments.

I’ve included a list of steps sex workers can take to use Monero for payments so that they’re no longer at the mercy of banks or credit card companies.

* Learn how to use anonymous, censorship resistant payment methods like [^1] and [^2].

* Learn how to use [^3]. Give discounts to customers who pay with crypto.

* Set up [^4] on your website so you can accept crypto payments easily.

* Learn how to use decentralized fiat onramps like [^5] and [^6].

* Learn how to spend your crypto on day to day expenses either directly (¹, [^8] ) or with gift cards (², [^10])

* Listen to privacy oriented podcasts like [^11] [^12] and [^13].

* Track new bills in government. Learn about Operation Chokepoint I/II, FOSTA/SESTA, COPA, and the lobbying groups and politicians responsible for them. Unfortunately, hostility to sex work is a bipartisan issue: many Democratic politicians and feminist groups such as NOW are hostile to sex workers.

* Donate to pro-sex work lobbying organizations like [^14] [^15] (Note: I realize that there are many crypto projects of dubious merit out there, and you have little reason not to think I'm another scammer touting his wares.

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