For sellers it is awesome and I know how bad PayPal is for sellers so I understand that.
But as a buyer if I don't care about being anonymous why would I spend a currency that is deflating and has no safeguards or way to charge back when I could just use fiat, have safety and feel better knowing the money I just spent won't be worth 10% more tomorrow.
Coinbase (-1%) -> Gyft (+4%) -> Amazon/BurgerKing/Sears/GAP/Groupon
All transactions have a ~3% credit card tax (even if you pay with cash). With Bitcoin, you can avoid this tax and get the discount.
Try sending money to a family member in Africa, then understand why PayPal and credit card are bad.
If you have qualms with bitcoins (the unit), then hold them for less than a minute and don't expose yourself to the exchange risk as you use the Bitcoin payment network to transfer value.
Finally, Bitcoin is FAR FAR from anonymous, it is as public as it could possibly be (everybody everywhere has an index of every transaction!!).
Thank you for your comments, I hope mine helped.
PayPal has explicit policies against buying virtual currencies and they will cancel your payment if it's brought to their attention, screwing the seller out of their Bitcoin. Similarly, credit card transactions will be reversed if later found to be fraudulent, and there's no way for the seller to be completely sure your card isn't stolen. So the status quo is that nobody sell Bitcoin for credit, and if anyone were to start they would be a lightning rod for CC thieves, since Bitcoin is by far the best thing to buy with stolen credit if you have the option.
Though I'm wondering why Bitcoin adoption in the porn industry still seems to be so slow. Usually they're the first to jump on new technology.
Also the websites that provide the type of content you're referring to like to gauge people with expensive subscription costs and I'm not sure how you can set up a subscription service with bitcoin.
Particularly when they conveniently decide to suspend the ability to immediately xfer payment out of a verified bank account, leaving you with a 3-5 day electronic check or signing up for "bill me later" as your only options for making a payment when your balance is 0. I'm sure it's all about fraud detection, and nothing to do with selling more people on "bill me later".
"has no safeguards or way to charge back when I could just use fiat, have safety and feel better knowing the money I just spent won't be worth 10% more tomorrow."
Indeed. This is what keeps me out of cryptocurrency. In spite of how crappy paypal is (or can be) for buyers.