FAQ

A set of apps that let creators charge for what they already make: live streams, articles and tips. Fans pay creators directly in USDC, a digital dollar, using the open x402 payment standard. See Be a dick, it pays.

No. Creators keep 100% of what fans pay, and our cut of every payment is $0.00. The only thing dick.com charges for is an optional creator plan. By comparison, Twitch keeps up to 50% of subscriptions, YouTube 30% of memberships and OnlyFans 20%.

Anyone who makes something people will pay for: educators, musicians, coaches, artists, journalists, experts, gamers, chefs and researchers. It’s a general-audience platform. See Who uses dick.com.

Yes. The Basic plan is free for good, with no card needed: up to 5 viewers per stream and 120 minutes of streaming a week. Paid plans raise those limits. See Plans.

No. Free streams and articles need nothing at all. To pay for something, a fan needs a wallet app with some USDC on Base, which takes a few minutes to set up. See Wallets and USDC.

Open the creator’s link, such as dick.com/theirname. When they’re live, their page says so. Free streams play straight away. For a paid stream, the price is on the button: connect your wallet, approve the payment, and it plays.

No. You never need an account to watch, read, tip or pay. A free account is only needed to post in chat.

It depends on how the creator charges, and you see it before you pay. One price covers the whole broadcast. Per-minute, per-15-minute and per-hour prices buy one period at a time; near the end of it you’re asked whether to keep watching, and nothing renews without your approval.

On the stream page, choose Have a code? and type it in. A free code unlocks the stream without a wallet. A discount code lowers the price of your next payment.

Read the free preview, then pay once with the button at the end of it. The article stays unlocked in that browser for a year. If you’re signed in when you buy it, it opens on any phone or computer you sign in on. Otherwise, on another device choose Already paid? under the button and connect the wallet you paid with: you sign a message (no charge) and it unlocks there too. Your Receipts link to every article you paid for.

Open the creator’s Stream tab and pick one under Past streams. Pay once and you can rewatch it in that browser, or on any device you sign in on if you were signed in when you paid. On another device, choose Already paid? under the Watch button and connect the wallet you paid with: you sign a message (no charge) and it plays there too. If the creator later takes it off their page, you can still watch it the same way. Recordings are deleted after about 30 days, even ones you paid for, so watch it before then.

Use the tip card on their page. Choose $1, $5, $10 or $20, or any amount from $1 to $500, and add a note of up to 140 characters if you like. Tips work whether or not the creator is live.

Anyone can read chat on a stream that has it turned on. To post, create a free account with an email, a password and a display name. No wallet needed.

Yes. Open the link in your phone’s browser. To pay you’ll need a wallet app, such as Coinbase Wallet or MetaMask Mobile. If connecting from your browser doesn’t work, open the link in your wallet app’s built-in browser.

Open Receipts and connect the wallet you paid with. It lists everything that wallet paid creators on dick.com.

Payments go straight to the creator and can’t be reversed, so dick.com can’t refund them. If a stream drops after you’ve paid, contact the creator using the links on their page.

Not from paying. We don’t ask fans for names or emails. A payment records the paying wallet and the amount, which are public on Base anyway. If you create a chat account, we store its email and display name to run chat.

Any wallet that supports Base: MetaMask, Coinbase Wallet, Rainbow, Trust Wallet, or 300+ others through WalletConnect. Coinbase Wallet is the easiest to start with: you sign in with an email or a passkey, with no seed phrase.

USDC is a digital dollar: 1 USDC is always worth $1.00. Buy it inside MetaMask or Coinbase Wallet with a card, send it from a Coinbase account choosing the Base network, or bridge it at bridge.base.org.

A fast, low-cost network built by Coinbase on Ethereum. Every dick.com payment happens on Base, so your USDC must be on Base, not Ethereum mainnet.

No. You pay the price on the button and nothing more.

That’s how an x402 payment works. You sign an authorization for the exact amount shown, to the creator’s wallet only, and it expires shortly after. It can’t be reused, changed or turned into unlimited spending. See How your money is protected.

Some wallets are cautious about payment requests from newer sites. dick.com is verified by Blockaid, the security provider MetaMask uses. If the amount and the creator match what you expected, it’s safe to approve.

No. If a payment fails, your USDC stays in your wallet. The usual causes are not enough USDC on Base, a wallet on the wrong network or an approval that expired. See Failed payments.

Sign up at dick.com/signup, choose your handle, then add a payout wallet in Settings › Payout wallet. Fans can’t pay you until you do. See Getting started.

No. Your link, dick.com/yourname, is permanent once your channel is created. Handles are first-come, first-served, with a few exceptions: see Handles. You can change your display name any time in Settings › Profile.

We hold the names of well-known people and brands so nobody can pretend to be them. If yours is held, sign up with it and choose Is this really you? to claim it. If someone is using your name or brand to pass as you, email support@dick.com with a link to the channel.

Each email address has one channel. For a second channel, sign up with a different email address.

Log in at dick.com/login. If you’ve forgotten your password, choose Forgot your password? and we’ll email you a reset link. To change it while logged in, go to Settings › Account & security.

Yes. In Settings › Profile, add your X, Instagram and YouTube links and your website. They appear on your page so fans can follow you elsewhere.

Yes. In Stream › Channel settings, under When you’re offline, write a message and when you’ll be on next, such as “Thursday at 7pm ET”. Fans see both on your page while you’re offline.

Yes, with access codes. In Stream › Channel settings, add a code that’s free, a percentage off or a dollar amount off, with an optional limit on how many times it can be used. Pause or delete a code any time. Fans enter it under Have a code?, and free codes don’t need a wallet.

Turn chat on in Stream › Channel settings, then read and reply from the chat beside your preview in the Studio.

Wallet shows everything you’ve earned, split by app, with every payment listed and a CSV export. Stream › Analytics shows stream earnings and minutes streamed over 7 days, 30 days or all time, and Articles › Analytics shows each article’s sales.

Yes. Most domain registrars can forward a domain to a page, so point yours at dick.com/yourname. Fans who type your domain land on your channel.

In Settings › Account & security, choose Delete my account and type your handle to confirm. This can’t be undone.

For now we recommend your browser: go live straight from the Studio with nothing to install. If you need something it can’t do, like scenes or sending one stream to YouTube too, OBS, Streamlabs, Larix Broadcaster and any app that sends RTMP also work, plus Zoom and Microsoft Teams meetings. Google Meet works through OBS. See Streaming with OBS and Streaming from Zoom, Teams or Meet.

In the Studio and in Stream › Channel settings, alongside the server address. Keep it private: anyone with it can broadcast to your channel.

Automatically. When your app starts sending video, your page shows you as live within about 30 seconds, and it goes back to offline when you stop.

Up to 4 hours per stream; after that it disconnects and you can start again straight away. Your plan also sets your streaming minutes per week. They reset every Monday, and unused minutes don’t carry over.

Yes. Streams over a minute are recorded and show on your Stream page as past streams, which fans can buy to watch. Set a price for each, or hide one, in Stream › Past streams. Recordings are deleted after 30 days. A stream from your browser is saved from your own computer when you end it, so it can take a while to appear; if you leave first, it finishes the next time you open the Studio on that browser. Changing camera or mic mid-stream splits the recording in two. Make sure you have the rights to sell what’s in it, and that anyone on camera knows they’re being recorded; see the Terms. To keep your own copy, turn on recording in OBS.

Yes. Send one OBS stream to both. Each platform has rules about pointing viewers elsewhere; see Multistreaming.

x264 at 2,500–4,000 Kbps for 1080p, CBR, and a keyframe interval of 2 seconds, which matters most. See Recommended settings.

Wait 30 to 60 seconds, then check your stream key and server and that the keyframe interval is 2. See Troubleshooting streams.

In the Studio, choose a price from $0 to $1,000 and how it’s charged: free, one price for the stream, per minute, per 15 minutes or per hour. Change it any time, including between streams. New fans see the new price straight away.

The moment a fan pays, usually in under 2 seconds. Money goes straight to your payout wallet: no payout schedule, no minimum and no holding period.

Any wallet on Base that holds USDC. A Coinbase Smart Wallet is a good choice, because fans’ wallets tend to recognize it and show fewer warnings. See Payouts and pricing.

USDC. 1 USDC is always $1.00, so what you charge is what you receive.

In Articles, choose New article, paste your text, set a price from $0.01 to $1,000 and how many paragraphs are free, then share the pay link. See Publishing articles.

Every channel page has a tip card, live or not. Tips and fans’ notes appear in Tips and in Wallet. See Accepting tips.

dick.com doesn’t give tax advice. USDC income may be taxable where you live, so check with a tax professional.

Basic is free. Premium is $29 a month, Pro $79 and Enterprise $299; paying for a year costs the same as 10 months. Every plan has zero platform fees. See the plans table.

More viewers per stream and more streaming minutes a week, plus priority or dedicated support and, on Pro and Enterprise, advanced analytics.

In Settings › Plan. You pay in USDC from your wallet, and the new limits apply straight away.

No. A plan lasts a month or a year and never charges you again on its own. Renew it in Settings › Plan before it ends.

No. Plan payments aren’t refundable.

No. No pornography, sexually explicit material or nudity, on any channel, without exception.

Content you don’t have the rights to, illegal content, anything that sexualizes minors, hate speech, harassment, fraud, and content that promotes violence. See the Content policy.

Email support@dick.com with the channel’s link and what you saw.

Pages are hosted on a global network and video is delivered by Cloudflare Stream, but outages can still happen. Our Terms of Service cover what we’re responsible for. For anything urgent, email support@dick.com.

dick.com is built on open-source technology, including Next.js, the x402 protocol and Cloudflare Stream. x402 itself is fully open source at github.com/coinbase/x402. See The technology: x402.

Yes. Follow @dickwebsite on X for new features and creator news.

Email support@dick.com. Include your handle or the creator’s link, what you were doing and any error you saw. We usually reply within 24 hours.