The “stripper index” – an anecdotal measure which links economic health to expenditure on entertainment for adults – seems unable to predict the price of Bitcoin (BTC).
Kodi Rose, a “stripper” and a self-written adult content creator, alluded to these first line ideas in a recent viral Tiktok video, saying that it believes that the economy is already in a recession because fewer customers ask where they can “hit the slopes”, a social code for cocaine.
The digital equivalent of exotic dancers is the creators of adult content, and only fans dominate the space. On the platform, users subscribe to creators and Tip for Extras.
It turns out that the stripper index does not really work for Bitcoin. An analysis of the 57 -month income of a single creator of an intermediate level shows a negative correlation with the price of Bitcoin, despite the two which move in the same direction more than half of the time.
To understand if creators’ income has a predictive value for Bitcoin, Cointelegraph spoke to veterans in the adult entertainment industry who resisted its ups and downs alongside the cryptography media cycles.
Bitcoin followed the benefit of the unique model 55% of the time
The stripper index is supported by the hypothesis that consumers will reduce non-essential spending during economic slowdowns.
“Sex work is considered to be a” non-essential “service- it is entertainment, a luxury. Therefore, it is one of the first expenses that people reduce when their financial situation becomes uncertain or anticipate economic instability,” said Chentelegraph Catherine de Noire, a creator and a director of Damn.
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Alana Nguyen, who performs on Onlyfans under the stage name “Nerdy Dancing”, has shared his monthly earnings with Cointtelegraph since he moved online after stopping the physical pandemic in the physical world, including strip clubs. Until now, she has not noticed any clear correlation between the prices of cryptography and the behavior of subscribers.
“Even if there are global economic conditions affecting overall expenses, I do not think that crypto prices are strongly in correlation with my income,” Nguyen told Cointelegraph.
A pearson correlation coefficient of -0.335 over 57 months suggests a moderately negative linear relationship between the benefits of Nguyen and the Bitcoin price.
Pearson correlation at 10 months between Nguyen’s income and Bitcoin Prix has shown considerable volatility over time. The highest correlation was observed during the 10 -month period ending in July 2021, which was the first months of Nguyen’s business.
Out of 48 calculations in total, the turnover correlation coefficient was distributed uniformly, with 24 positive and negative values, suggesting that the relationship between Nguyen’s income and the Bitcoin price fluctuated without coherent model. The correlation of bearing rarely exceeded 0.5 or less -0.5, indicating a low correlation.
To a separate extent, Cointelegraph analyzed whether Nguyen’s benefits increased or not when the monthly Bitcoin average has increased compared to the previous month and when its income dropped as Bitcoin fell. To this extent, the two moved to the same direction almost half of the time, with a precision of 55% over 57 months.
“I have always thought that concepts like the stripper index are only useful in terms of aggregated expenses. Even in the strip club, my income is not necessarily linked to the way the club is on the whole. It is more of my personal sale capacity that day-that the regulars come or that I am lucky with great spending,” said Nguyen.
Onlyfans is known for opaque financial information. A website, Onlyguider, claims to have analyzed the transaction behavior of more than a million subscribers and found that the highest 0.1% of creators earn the majority of the platform income.
According to onlyguider data shared with Cointtelegraph, the highest 0.1% of the creators won $ 2,035,331 in April 2025, when the average Bitcoin price was $ 94,207. While the Bitcoin prices continued to increase in May and June, the profits of 0.1% higher also increased, reaching $ 2,038,972 in May and $ 2,052,502 in June.
Bitcoin relationship with unique
Crypto was once considered an alternative tool to facilitate payments to adult content creators. Pornhub, one of the largest platforms in the industry, began to accept cryptocurrency in 2018. Only fans, however, took a different path and does not offer crypto as a payment method.
“Cryptographic payments are not very popular in our mess. Most customers prefer money because it leaves no trace. Only a very small number of women working with us accept the payments of crypto, and even then, the total number of transactions per year is extremely low,” said black.
“We have not noticed any significant change in the expense behavior which corresponds to crypto fluctuations. The fact that Bitcoin or Ethereum works well or not seems to have any direct effect on the amount that our customers are ready to spend,” she added.
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The star of the erotic cinema combines Eve Knox has stronger links with the cryptographic community as a defender of the integration of cryptocurrency in the adult industry and thanks to his participation in Spankchain, who launched initiatives like Spankpay, a cryptographic payment option for adult creators who has since been interrupted.
Knox, which offers its content on several platforms, including only fans, has agreed that the price of Bitcoin does not seem to have a significant impact on its income.
“Whenever Crypto reaches a record level, our traffic slows down,” Knox told Cointelegraph.
“People want to see the greatest number of their account and capture it.
Knox has been in the entertainment industry for adults for 11 years and says that it has known 36 closings of accounts during its career – bank accounts at Cash App and Paypal. Crypto offered another way of accepting payments, but ironically, she claims that she was disabled even by cryptographic platforms.
“I showed a team of documentary Showtime How I could display my QR Coinbase code on the camera, and viewers could pay me in Bitcoin or Ether. The day after its broadcast, Coinbase closed my account.”
Modern payment options – whether crypto or digital bank – facilitate transactions for consumers and businesses. However, electronic methods are still carrying out a banks when used by sex workers. In brothels, customers often prefer money, which sometimes leaves the session middle to withdraw money from an automatic counter, said black.
“As a single creator, however, I notice something a little similar. My subscribers generally have no problem using credit cards and trusting the platform. However, many of them always ask if they can pay via Bitcoin or other alternative methods,” she said.
“Since of DE does not allow payments outside the platform, I have not continued this more, but it is clear that even online customers are looking for more confidentiality and control over the data they share with financial institutions.”
The Bitcoin honeymoon with models only fans has passed
The content of web3 and adults had their “good old days”, according to Knox, who says that the non -bubilizable token boom (NFT) of 2021 opened new income flows and gave creators more options to reach fans and pass their cryptographic income.
“Now, if a customer does not already hold crypto, he must move money from his bank, wait for him to emerge in a portfolio, perhaps convert him, send him to a model, wait for confirmation and while he obtains the content,” she said.
The creators are also faced with growing barriers around the world. Recently, China has launched a repression on a national scale against only FAN, while Sweden, a nation that is politically and culturally very different from China, imposed restrictions on the purchase of adult content.
De Noire quoted sociologist Zygmunt Bauman to emphasize that in today’s society, consumers are not only trying to survive, but they give priority to pleasure.
“When you see a lot of non-essential services such as massages, fantasy coffee, well-being pensions or even sex work used regularly, it is a sign that society has enough money,” said black.
While cryptocurrency was once praised as a promising payment solution for creators of adult content faced with financial censorship, reality is more complex. Despite the overlapping pockets, such as simultaneous increases in bitcoin prices and the best fans’ creators only, adult artists and their profits have shown little correlation with bitcoin price trends.
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