Brenna Sparks’s first hands-on experience with cryptocurrency came in 2011, when she used bitcoin to buy weed on the dark web bazaar Silk Road. “Back then, it was just a form of payment,” says Sparks, now a rising adult film star based in Las Vegas. “I was still not convinced.” It wasn’t until 2013, when bitcoin broke the $1,000 price barrier, that she became a cryptocurrency convert.

Today, Sparks is a full-on crypto evangelist, touting bitcoin, Ethereum, and a number of lesser-known coins to her 115,000 Twitter followers, and advising for the startup SpankChain, a performer-friendly, blockchain-based adult entertainment platform. Soon she’ll unveil a series of topless cryptocurrency tutorial videos, and she also plans to create her own crypto-themed porn. (Tweet your best plot ideas to @brennasparksxxx).

BREAKER recently spoke to Sparks about her life as a self-described “crypto porn queen.” Warning: The following conversation veers into NSFW territory.

You’re an advisor to SpankChain. What is its mission?
SpankChain is trying to build a whole ecosystem for the adult industry, to pretty much fix our issues right now. I don’t know if you’re familiar with sites like ManyVids, MyFreeCams, Chaturbate, or LiveJasmin, but they take 30 percent to 50 percent. I cam on MyFreeCams, where they take 30 percent. That’s a lot—you’re working so hard just to have your income pretty much taken. Right now, SpankChain’s in beta, and we get 100 percent of all our earnings. Next quarter, they’re going to take five percent. They’re also trying to help escorts, they’re trying to help people who make their own content. I cam on the SpankChain site all the time.

How is that different than performing via webcam on other sites, aside from how much money you get to keep?
It’s a lot different. The SpankChain clientele love talking about crypto; they’re a lot smarter. The user interface looks amazing. MyFreeCams looks really shitty, but I still cam on MFC because I have a lot of regulars there. I’m trying to slowly convert them to SpankChain.

One of your fellow adult performers, Janice Griffith, wrote this [NSFW] post for SpankChain in which she mentions difficulties that adult performers and other sex workers have with banks and other financial institutions. What kind of issues have you run into?
Not too long ago, my bank account got shut down. I went there the next day and they did not give me any money back, and then I came another day and I really screamed at the lady and they tried to call the cops on me. And they wouldn’t explain why, until I was just like, “Okay, I have an idea of why my back account is shut down. Because I have cryptocurrency and I’m also in the adult industry.” [My bank] said they close bank accounts for those reasons, and it was really upsetting. All the time, adult performers, and directors as well, are getting their bank accounts shut down. What’s funny is some of them are still not convinced about cryptocurrency.

How else do the worlds of cryptocurrency and pornography intersect?
I see a lot of porn companies are accepting cryptocurrency, and there’s a lot of companies that are trying to do what SpankChain is doing. Eventually it’s going to be something that’s so normal that every performer is going to know what cryptocurrency is, and we won’t have to use U.S. Bank, Chase, all of them, anymore.

You’re a big crypto investor. I read an interview with you where you said you had a 1,100 percent average return on investment. That seems incredible. Is that true?
Yes, it is true. But I don’t take full credit because I do have a lot of cryptocurrency friends who help me and give me tips. So, thanks to them.

So what’s a good investing tip?
This has been used a lot, but pretty much buy low and sell high. [Laughs.]

That is a good tip, but I was hoping for something more specific.
I recently got into trading because for a while I’d been just holding, or HODLing. A lot of times, people tell me certain projects are really good, like Cardano, Sonm, SpankChain, ARK. So they pretty much help me and tell me which ones I should get.

You attend cryptocurrency conferences and other events like that?
Yeah, I go to a lot of them, and eventually I want to start talking on panels.

What has kept you from doing that so far?
I think it’s just because I’m shy.

Given what you do for a living, most people wouldn’t expect you to be shy.
It is a misconception. I am really introverted. I try to appear like I’m an extrovert, but I’m definitely shy.

I saw on Twitter that you’re doing these topless crypto instructional videos.
I’ve already shot some of them. Right now, I’m just trying to shoot a bunch and then release them all at once. I started collaborating with a production team because originally I was just doing it on my tripod.

What can we expect to learn from the videos?
Right now I’m trying to just do the basics of “What is bitcoin?” or “What is cryptocurrency?” Maybe I’ll do topless readings of white papers—I think that would be fun.

Do you have any other plans involving cryptocurrency?
My next plan would be to have my site going and creating crypto-themed porn. What would that be? I don’t know. On Twitter, a lot of my fans are sending me ideas, like shoving myself with green dildos. [“Green dildo” is crypto slang for a significant upward price movement on a candlestick chart.] Or like the guy [performer] is wearing a shirt, and he’s [dressed as] bitcoin. And there were people giving me ideas about gangbangs involving other alt-coins.

I have to ask you about this recent Motherboard story, “A Programmer Ate Ass to Save Cryptocurrency,” which you were involved in. I’m not sure I totally understand what happened there. Can you explain?
So, I’ve had a crazy few days. I have a friend, his name is Romano, he’s the lead dev for a cryptocurrency called Viacoin. I don’t know how the prophecy came about, but it’s been going around for a while—that he should eat ass so they can start the next bull run. And he was like, “No, that’s gross.” He’s from the Netherlands and one day he decided to take a plane to go all the way to Vegas just to lick my ass. The internet has been going insane since then. And the market went up. Isn’t that crazy?

Did the prophecy involve your ass in particular?
It’s my ass. If you have to lick someone’s ass, you would have to lick a crypto porn queen, right?

I guess so. I don’t understand how these things work. Do you feel like you’ve benefited the market by doing this?
I’m not sure if I benefited it, but it did go up and everyone had a good laugh. What do you think?

I don’t know. When I saw that headline I was like, “I’m not sure what—
Did you assume that it was my butt?

I did not. Would you do that again to boost the market?
I wonder what I can do to make bitcoin go to $20K. Like maybe there’s something I can do, something crazy.

It would probably have to be something really extreme.
Like what?

I don’t know—I don’t have the imagination for that.
Like, maybe, I don’t know, a gangbang with various Top 50 cryptocurrency coins? That would break the internet.

This interview has been edited and condensed. Photo courtesy Brenna Sparks.