PopChest Acquires First Major YouTuber

PopChest Acquires First Major YouTuber

PopChest is a service that allows YouTubers and video producers to earn money from their videos without the need for advertising. Users pay a very small fee in Bitcoin, usually $0.25 (approximately 0.000414 BTC at the time of my writing), to watch the content producer’s video. This directly supports the creator, and also allows users to see exclusive content. PopChest has had limited success, but recently, a YouTuber with 600,000 subscribers signed up for the service, creating a surge in interest. PopChest was founded on 7th May 2015 by Valerian Bennett and James Poole, with the intention....


Related News

Micropayments – Interview with the PopChest Team

PopChest is a new platform that uses Bitcoin micropayments to generate an income to its participants. PopChest uses bitcoin micropayments to get people the content they want and directly reward the artists they love. The startup was born from the idea that content producers should be awarded by their content. This has motivated the PopChest Team to design a platform where content producers can be directly compensated by those who view their videos. The team is also trying to decentralize the platform the much as they can.

Video Experiment Shows YouTube Stars Can Earn More Revenue With Bitcoin Micropayments

Micropayments have been touted as one of Bitcoin’s main use cases since the early days of the technology, and a recent trial of the Bitcoin-powered content platform PopChest by YouTube Star NurdRage indicates that these claims may not be overblown. NurdRage has been testing out various alternative content monetization schemes lately, and a test of PopChest generated a 400 percent increase in revenue for the science-focused YouTube channel. Past Tests With Bitcoin-Focused Content. The early testing ground for PopChest’s micropayments-based content monetization model has been TheProtocol.TV.....

Popular YouTuber MrBeast Reveals Significant Crypto Holdings, Here’s What He Has

Popular YouTuber MrBeast has said he holds most of his crypto bag in Bitcoin. Jimmy Donaldson, popularly known as MrBeast, is famous on YouTube for pulling very expensive stunts. Stunts like giving people $1 million to spend in one minute are not out of the norm for the YouTuber. MrBeast boasts a huge following of […]

Renowned Finance Youtuber Andrei Jikh Invests Over $100K Into Cryptocurrencies

The popular Youtuber Andrei Jikh published a video this week to his 978,000 Youtube subscribers explaining that he invested over $100,000 into crypto assets. Jikh details why he spent the funds on digital assets and he plans to share his investment experience in another video. Andrei Jikh is a popular Youtuber with close to a million subscribers to-date, and his channel concentrates on personal finance, the stock market, and investing. Usually, his videos cover traditional investment assets like stocks, but during his latest video published on November 20, he discussed an entirely....

Journalist and Youtuber Tim Pool Believes 1 Bitcoin Will ‘Eventually Be Equiv...

The American journalist, Youtuber, podcast host, and political commentator, Tim Pool, has talked about bitcoin on numerous occasions and even more so these days as the crypto asset crossed its all-time price high. After the Proshares exchange-traded fund (ETF) launched on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), Pool asked his 897,700 Twitter followers if they thought bitcoin would hit $200K. Tim Pool ‘Feels Bad’ for People Dismissing Bitcoin Tim Pool is a well known person on various social media channels due to the work he’s done as a journalist, show host, and....