Now several agencies and indie providers are starting to accept credit card payments. Wouldn't that leave a paper trail? What's your take on it?

Never, I don't use agencies anyway, but I sure don't have to remind you what happened during  8/08 and the ensuing release of names and information.

I'd be more likely to do that with an independent provider than an agency. Simply because an agency is something that could potentially be the target of LE. Whereas an independent provider is much less likely to have to deal with that sort of thing. IMHO

Great that some ladies are accepting credit cards but only use CASH

.......Oh and did I mention PAPER TRAIL! Bad, bad, bad idea. I am with Hidden, I don't use agencies or independents who ask for excessive personal information. Discrete is discrete and less is always more. Right.

no paper trail.

What draws their attention is putting money in one place and then withdrawing it someplace else
if this is a habit that they see if raises flags as possible money laundering.

The other thing that will get you is if you make a bunch of deposits into the account in a short period of time say when touring you put in x amt 10 times in a week that will raise those same flags.

But for a gentleman to use the GD card to pay for a session with a provider who is set up as a legitimate business with a billing name that is not hobby related in any way there should not be any problems.

So I highly recommend that you make sure how the billing comes through to avoid that issue.

I'm curious if anybody has started using Bitcoins yet. Its basically a nigh-anonymous currency generated by solving cryptographic hashes, and it seems to be catching on.  Wikipedia and Wikileaks accept Bitcoins for donations now, and even Turbotax's site has a section on how to use them to minimize your tax surface area.

I would think that an anonymous decentralized currency would go perfectly with this hobby

This person speaks the truth!