{"id":213768,"date":"2024-03-15T17:20:31","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T17:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/15\/this-movie-streaming-platform-is-accepting-bitcoin\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:20:34","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:20:34","slug":"this-movie-streaming-platform-is-accepting-bitcoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/15\/this-movie-streaming-platform-is-accepting-bitcoin\/","title":{"rendered":"This movie streaming platform is accepting Bitcoin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/readwrite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Bitcoinmovies-900x561.png\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>In a ground-breaking step for the streaming industry, Movies Plus has become the \u201cfirst streaming platform\u201d to allow subscribers to pay for their service using Bitcoin.<\/p>\n<p>The free movie streaming app announced on Wednesday (Mar.12) it has integrated Bitcoin as an accepted payment method through a partnership with crypto payment processor Flash, which utilizes the Bitcoin Lightning Network for fast and cheap transactions.<\/p>\n<h2>What is Movies Plus?<\/h2>\n<p>It should be pointed out that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mymoviesplus.com\/\">Movies Plus<\/a> is a small and up-and-coming streaming service. The company\u2019s tagline on X is, \u201cNo commercials, no censorship, no agenda. Just quality content, at an affordable price.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is part of a wave of new entertainment brands in the US promoting their belief in free speech as a reason to subscribe.<\/p>\n<p>One of the biggest titles on the service currently is <em>The Plot Against the President<\/em> a documentary into the Russian collusion accusations levelled at former President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>The company\u2019s CEO and founder Corey Tucek, an evangelical Bitcoin supporter and businessman, shared his excitement of the news on X earlier this week.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Have been waiting a while to share this.<\/p>\n<p>You can now subscribe to Movies Plus by paying in Bitcoin! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/C7B0aoIHpR\">https:\/\/t.co\/C7B0aoIHpR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Cory Tucek (@Cory_Tucek) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Cory_Tucek\/status\/1767605797419135002?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 12, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As of yet, the big players in the sector like Netflix, Disney+ and Prime Video have not yet shown any indication they will also allow payments by Bitcoin. But with the digital asset<a href=\"https:\/\/readwrite.com\/coinbase-crashed-as-bitcoin-soared-to-record-high\/\"> reaching record highs<\/a> this month and the launch of <a href=\"https:\/\/readwrite.com\/bitcoin-etf-daily-inflows-breaks-1b\/\">the Bitcoin ETF earlier this year<\/a> there are signs the cryptocurrency is beginning to penetrate the mainstream.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Featured image: Ideogram<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/readwrite.com\/this-movie-streaming-platform-is-accepting-bitcoin\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] In a ground-breaking step for the streaming industry, Movies Plus has become the \u201cfirst streaming platform\u201d to allow subscribers to pay for their service<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":213769,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[152],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213768"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337357,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213768\/revisions\/337357"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}