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Hi all. Bitcoin newbie here posting for the first time.

I am a Youtuber earning a living from the money I make with my videos. That money is paid to me by Google through international bank transfers. There's no other payment method.

I'm looking for some way to receive that money in Bitcoin. Some kind of service that receives your salary for you from your employer, converts it to Bitcoin and pays it to you. That would be really useful to people who work for companies that refuse to pay in crypto.

Recently I found an Australian company called Get Paid In Bitcoin (https://getpaidinbitcoin.com.au/) that does just that. You give your employer their bank details, they receive your payment, convert it to Bitcoin and transfer it to your wallet, after a fee. However, unfortunately, they only work in Australia. Which doesn't make sense to me, since Bitcoin doesn't differ national to international transfers. Maybe someone knows of a similar service that works internationally?

Why don't I simply receive my income in fiat currency and then buy Bitcoin with it? Because I want my income to stay as much away from banks as possible. My goal is to avoid taxation, which in my country is absurdly abusive.

Any input would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Why you should trust a third party with your incomes? I believe you haven't earned it very easily... earning money needs lots of efforts.
Not sure as I'm not a youtuber, but Google may see this suspicious if you change the country for withdrawals when you will use a third party service. Afaik Google prefers to deal directly with the account owners.

I don't know where are you from, but you can convert your fiat currency (after you received payment from Google) to bitcoin through localbitcoins and paxful.
You will be doing transactions with your local peoples. No banks, No tax issues, you will get complete privacy.

https://www.bitwage.com/for-individuals/  is the obvious choice but I don't know exactly how they work. Anyone who offers it is going to be by the book as much as possible so I'd let go of the idea of being safely ensconced from The Man.

Have you checked whether Google will send to third party accounts? They may have a rule against that.

Because of the reputation of that third party. Therefore, it would have to have a good one.

That may be true. However, by checking the payout information here in my account, I believe you can just put any banking info you want and the money will go there. It makes sense, since lots of Youtubers are just children probably without bank accounts on their names.

I appreciate your input, but that's not a good solution. If it's after I received from Google, it went through my bank account. If it touches your bank account, the government knows you received it and will tax it.

I'm checking their website, it's exactly what I was looking for! Thanks!

Apparently they put the receiving account on the name of the client, to deal with issues like that.

Well, I just signed up an account and they still didn't ask for a social security number. I guess that's a good sign. Let's see.

Wow, good job. Congratulations for your success. It looks like Youtube hasn't received payments with bitcoin, maybe someday. You can use paypall, then you just buy bitcoin.

I assume you just want to get Bitcoin without having to use an exchange? Regardless of how legit that service is, I still believe that managing your own funds, that is, accepting your fiat payment and then use that to buy Bitcoin through an exchange is still a good alternative.

Where did you live? Don't you have a local exchange that supports fiat to crypto trades?

If you think that this third party has a good reputation or a trusted site then you could try that but try that at your own risk. Another option would be, buy bitcoins on exchange. I haven't tried transferring money from bank to bittrex but withdrawing from bittrex to bank is possible. Bittrex.com.

I think his main purpose by looking 3rd party to convert his salary (from youtube) is to avoid an exchange as he do not want to store the money in bank account while at the same time most local exchanges requires bank account details in order to let him do fiat-crypto trades. His main idea is to receive the salary in bitcoin without converting it through exchange. Means that he want to receive his salary in a bitcoin wallet.

Maybe you don't know the purpose of this post, for me he just said that if we had an employee and we give the salary by bitcoin not using real money to the employee

So the company that should register in that website and set up all bitcoin address that the employee has in his company

   Do you pay any tax for the income you get for such kind of work as the youtuber?
If not, then why to complicate and find mediators? Just create a bitcoin wallet and send to your bosses the wallet's address where they can send your crypto payment.
   The problem is only in your bosses, will tehy agree to pay you in crypto at all?
Anyway you may use the wallet's address in your videos to people who wish to support you and like your work send some money there.

In a system that is easy, we accept Bitcoin payments through the wallet or Exchange services and then we can exchange them for FIAT if needed. For me it is a simple method and what we need is an agreement that has been agreed upon. When a company and its employees have made a budget, it can happen. Provided that no one party is harmed, it is worth doing. Payment with Bitcoin is something that must be done immediately because we will face an era of increasingly sophisticated technology in the future.

I'm not sure about this information but I watch a lot of YouTube accounts refuse to disclose their profits on videos because that this is against the YouTube rules so I think there is no service provides such exchange.

to @OP: Even if you have to pay taxes, buy BTC (using local way) may be profitable because of the possibility of the rising at any time.

I doubt it will not be possible unless otherwise you are getting paid in bitcoins from your employer directly. I checked twice that you have not mentioned that which country you are from. Because, people here may get you better solution only from their own experience and for that they might need to know where you are from exactly.

With respect to my country, I believe I cannot hide my bank transactions hence anything hit my bank account must be subject to taxation. But, I am able to convert my bank balances into bitcoins easily (in P2P way).

One simple solution might be (if your country's taxation rules are similar to my country), you may buy bitcoins using bank transfers with multiple sellers and you can claim those transactions as business expenses so that you may not need to pay taxes for some big portion of your fiat salary.

Why would you risk your salary to be processed or converted by a third party? I would rather pay taxes than risk my salary on this. I do understand that you want your salary to be in bitcoin to avoid excessive tax as you have mentioned, but this will put you in a riskier situation. You should've mentioned what country were you from for other's to have reference and idea to give you better alternatives.

I always want people to pay my salary in Bitcoin and I think this is good to invest for a long -term while earning money for daily needs. Just make sure not to only hold Bitcoin or cash because you might lose your chance to get some profit from Bitcoin invesment.

but actually, there is some company in Japan i think that already implement this and here the articles i found about it
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/dec/15/japanese-company-paying-employees-bitcoin
https://www.engadget.com/2017/12/15/japanese-company-gmo-internet-paying-salaries-bitcoin/

by doing this the taxation still there and it will be counted by the company not the employee, just like the calculation of taxes paid with money but the difference is that the company only pays it via bitcoin

Company doesnt give bitcoin salary to employees because its not yet available. Why do they hire a third party company just for making a bitcoin salary. Its so hassle and time consuming if they do that and thats not economical. If someday, bitcoin will be worldwide free, then im sure that we will be paying bitcoin too.

OP has got what he was looking for and that's it but i think that i must try to give an opinion about your post because I do not agree with it. The company can do that easily if they want but they are avoiding the volatility of crypto and remember crypto is not yet legalized in so many countries and that brings a lot of doubt to the company to choose bitcoin as their payment system.
Basically it so easy to create a multi-transaction input in bitcoin.

If those companies would accept it why not but the main reason is that they don't because there is no available way and it is a hassle to them since they don't understand it first. OP might like to make his salary just like to the signature campaigns where all of our salaries were given through the address that we provided. And for the taxation, i don't think companies would want to exempt OP from paying taxation since that is how the companies explain it to the government on how they give their money to their employees.

Avoiding your local bank for tax reasons and choosing to move to crypto  is not a wise decision in my opinion. ... If price of cryptocurrency drops sharply you'd discover that your fund has been eaten up by something worse than the tax.
Id rather suggest that you split your salaries into two, have one part(70% up) in stablecoin and the other part (30% & below) in Bitcoin. 
Stablecoin as the name suggests, is a stable currency for hedging against volatility in crypto market

Firstly make wallet local or exchnage that allowed to convert bitcoin into fiat money and get the deposit wallet address to get recieve your salary. No need to explain a lot more or you can visit at google for more information all about how to recieve bitcoin via online wallet.
Most important is makes sure the company are know want you to recieve salary and you are youtuber it easy to understand how to follow all needed using google for you learning.

I am not quite sure if YouTube supports cryptocurrency (bitcoin to be specific) as they do not offer any payments related to bitcoin. For best results, you may ask them through an e-mail if it is possible to convert your hard-earned income to bitcoin for your convenience. If not, you can participate in this forum and provide services to receive bitcoin as a compensation pay.


Having your income fully converted to bitcoin may be relatively risky since the value is highly volatile- which can either make or break your monthly pay. If you want to focus on long-term investments, better diversify your portfolio or ask your employer to at least change 50% of your income to bitcoin. But again, everything is dependent on your employer if he accepts such.

I rather pay taxes than have others have control over my money. Since I am also paying fees for their service, I rather use that fees to pay my taxes. I will not fear cases of tax evasion if the government finds out what I am doing.

The other thing is, I will have control over the value of bitcoin when I convert from fiat to bitcoin. I can wait until the price is lower before I convert my fiat to bitcoin.

Thank you everybody for your inputs. The reason I didn't disclose where I'm from is that, since I'm a public person, I don't wish to have any details about my identity to slip off.

Even though I appreciate all replies, I believe most people replying didn't get the purpose of what I'm doing, which is to have my income to not touch my bank account, so it stays invisible to the government. Buying from exchanges requires that it goes through my bank account. Buying P2P requires that also.

As suggested previously, I'm checking Bitwage. They've been doing this since 2014 and seem to be quite trustworthy and organized. I will post it here once I have a solid update about my experience with their service, so whoever is interested can have more info.

This is not in our hands we need to be get the income only so the industries which will be developing in this situation where thinking about the improvement of their projects with the help of Bitcoin  only help to make the payments and then come to be paid in in Bitcoin and cryptocurrency

I am wondering why don't the employees get paid directly in Bitcoin because that's the fastest way to get paid. Enrouting the salary through Fiat and then getting it into Bitcoin definitely will reduce the worker's earning power and get some unnecessary middlemen paid through commissions. It should be the way it's done here with signature campaigns and participants get the payment straight up with Bitcoin.

On the one hand, getting a salary in Bitcoins is good, since you don’t have to pay taxes to the state, but on the other hand, how to deal with volatility?

I don't find this to be the best way to get paid in bitcoin. You're trusting a third party to receive your salary is not fair, and for the same you could receive the salary and further change it to bitcoin. We've got number of legit exchange services with very minimal charge, even when you rely on the third party service render to receive salary from your employer and return you in bitcoin he'll collect a service charge.

I feel your pain, but yikes!  Be careful with what you're doing, because government tax agencies are not stupid and they have ways of sniffing out tax evaders.

I have a question: do you make a lot of money just from Youtube videos?  I'm not asking for a specific figure, but is it enough to live on?  The idea of earning a living from making videos has long fascinated me, though I have no video-making talent and wouldn't have much to talk about which would draw a lot of views anyway. 

And though I don't have any suggestions for you about getting paid in bitcoin, I would be careful about the volatility risk.  That's the reason why I'd never want to get my paycheck in bitcoin unless I could instantly convert it to fiat--and if I could do that, there would be no point in a bitcoin paycheck anyway.  On the other hand, it might not be that big a problem for you if you factor in the tax "savings".  So good luck in your quest, and screw the tax man.

I don't it is a good thing to collect your money in bitcoin,  just find a way to keep collecting it your usual way, I heard that YouTube pays people with PayPal, so I think that is even easier because they are many websites that could take PayPal and give you bitcoin or even you local currency, but my advice would be for you to keep using the traditional means of collecting your YouTube funds because the fees might be high.

Basically not a single employee can avoid taxation since the company has report how many people they have paid, how much, and how they have done it. And you are right, government would know everything from company and be able to tax anyone.

But, like a cross-nation freelancer, let's say I am a freelancer. How government would know my salary and ask for taxation?

Any platform similar to the platform you introduced maybe scam or just another ponzi scheme who are sitting over there just to rip you off. If you are a newbie then always do remember to be more cautious and only trust on the platform having live example or several happy users. It would get challenging for you to find whether the platform is real or scam as you are new and lack in some knowledge but you should always check on the reviews for such sites.

Also there are some platforms which offer bitcoins for youtube promotion which may work simultaneously like adsense. The cryptocurrency field is developing strongly and if you stay close to the markets, you will surely see something good coming up where you can earn good amount of profits in cryptos.

I think, google will only send payments onto the bank account once verifying the name on the account with the name on the youtube account. There always is much risk involved in such bank transfers including scams and frauds so platforms like google might only send payments onto verified accounts. OP should never risk his channel by posting any unknown bank details just in order to get those funds converted into cryptocurrencies.

Instead there always are much options to buy back bitcoins with bank transfers and platforms like localbitcoins.com offer various buy/sell orders supported by various payment means including bank transfers, cash, RTGS, etc.

I wouldn't trust some company like that with my money. It's easier for me to get paid in Fiat, and then convert it into any currency. There is still a possibility that such a company will be dishonest.

I will suggest you stick to your Google payment methods and then buy crypto afterward when you receive your money Third-party like that will actually or mostly end up scamming you i will suggest you be very careful with your personal info There is no use for what you are trying to do as long as you are receiving your funds on time

All you need to do is to find out or generate a Bitcoin address/link that will help your sender to send you the Bitcoins. You need to navigate the account options after logging into your wallet, by clicking receive button will take you to the information there you need to get it from the sender.

There is no doubt Bitcoin has no intermediaries but the medium you want to send & receive money with is your wallet especially the address regardless of whether it is a salary or loan.

Is this 3rd party service reputable? ??? ???

Based on OP's story, that service only available on Australia, do you live on there?

If you want to convert your salary to btc, why don't just exchange your FIAT to btc once you get your salary through exchange site?

Right now, when the cryptocurrency market is in poor condition, getting cryptocurrency as a salary seems to me not very profitable.  I think that all Bounty Hunters will understand me, where their earnings have dropped significantly.  But if we talk about salaries at a company or a company that can pay salaries in cryptocurrency, then it is absolutely necessary to recalculate the cost of salaries in accordance with prices on the cryptocurrency market.  I think that this is a very complex process and not every company administration will agree to this.

Its easy to find scamers with reuests like your unfortunately. You can try to use exchange bank address but i dont sure that it will work fine. But in my opinion this is much better than try to find noname sites. Also, try local bitcoin if you can often change bank address in google account

If there's a job that could offer me to receive bitcoin as my main salary I would love to accept and deal with it. Furthermore, the volatility isn't a problem, because one day as price could stabilize you can appreciate it and your salary can be profitable asset.

That's not a problem if you wanted to receive your salary in bitcoin. Your company should be oriented with cryptocurrency so that they'll be affiliated through fiat and digital currency banking. Both parties should be able to be compatible in order that the direct deposit from bank to local trading site, that caters bitcoin transactions using wallet will be accommodated smoothly.
With that system, the company should be able to run the entire salary system without problems because it's banking digital transaction is confidentially running without hassle; in order to make your fiat be received as bitcoin on your registered btc wallet address.

You are a youtuber right? and on your statement you want to be pay thru bitcoin or you want to have bitcoin were you can avoid taxation?
Because the only things I knew was that paying bitcoin as your salary could be happen on bounty campaign that pays BitcoinBTC weekly here in the forum. But directly from the company outside this business industry, I doubt there is. And as far as I know from your salary in youtube you can able to buy bitcoin using your fiat and try to transact to localbitcoin where you can able to have bitcoin.

That may be difficult, dude. There's nothing I know about that kind of company that may pay you and already converted that fiat into bitcoin. And I'm not aware Australia had that kind of service. Good thing youve said it here. Hence, you have no choice since Adsense or Google only paid in fiat money into your bank account then the only way is just to buy bitcoin using that fiat money. You can't avoid the taxes.

I've heard about some IT companies in UK thar were paying salaries in Bitcoin. But that was only exception and the salary was only partly paid in Bitcoin.
I don't know if there is a way to negotiate with your empoyer about paying salary in Bitcoin because that might be very complicated and risky for him because of financial and tax regulation.
Personaly I think that is very risky to get paid in Bitcoin because of volatility so I wouldn't choose that option.

That is the level for which you know dear, you don’t have to necessarily get fiat to have bitcoin, there are so many people who are working to earn bitcoin and does not need to convert the fiat to but bitcoin.

There are lots of companies and projects that you work with now and would rather prefer to pay you in bitcoin, look at blockchain developers, some of them get paid in cryptocurrency like bitcoin, it is now left to them to quickly convert it to fiat and store in their traditional bank or leave it in their wallet to continue to grow for future increase, that is if they are interested in keeping it as investment for future.

I have done so many jobs that I have been paid in bitcoin, which I have also paid others too in bitcoin without us having to make use of fiat again.

You are saying contradictive here, you already get yourself into banking matter since you've said that google pays you up with international bank transfers.For now you

don't have any options because google doesn't support Bitcoin yet.So you would still stick to that situation and also I don't recommend nor trust 3rd parties to received my youtube video pay.Its too risky actually.