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Title: 2014-06-02 Blockchain.info CEO: We Pay Employees in Bitcoin. And Someday You Mi Post by: Swordsoffreedom on June 04, 2014, 05:24:02 AM Making up for the secondary source and adding this one
http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/234463 Nicolas Cary is convinced Bitcoin is as monumental a game changer as the Internet itself. He believes in it so much that he’s perfectly fine with getting paid 100 percent in the world’s first digital cash by his employer, Blockchain.info, the popular Bitcoin wallet and block explorer he leads as CEO (and chief bacon officer). Actually, everyone at the York, England-based startup gets paid in Bitcoin only. The company doesn’t even have a single traditional bank account. Continued in Article Title: Re: 2014-06-02 Blockchain.info CEO: We Pay Employees in Bitcoin. And Someday You Mi Post by: Ron~Popeil on June 08, 2014, 05:29:43 AM Making up for the secondary source and adding this one http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/234463 Nicolas Cary is convinced Bitcoin is as monumental a game changer as the Internet itself. He believes in it so much that he’s perfectly fine with getting paid 100 percent in the world’s first digital cash by his employer, Blockchain.info, the popular Bitcoin wallet and block explorer he leads as CEO (and chief bacon officer). Actually, everyone at the York, England-based startup gets paid in Bitcoin only. The company doesn’t even have a single traditional bank account. Continued in Article That is awesome. I would love to get paid in bit coin. If coin base were ever to roll out direct deposit I would send mine there. Title: Re: 2014-06-02 Blockchain.info CEO: We Pay Employees in Bitcoin. And Someday You Mi Post by: bryant.coleman on June 08, 2014, 11:08:58 AM Blockchain.info is still having less than 100 employees. But it would be really great, if some of those bigger companies pay their employees through Bitcoins. What we need is a start. Adoption will catch on later.
Title: Re: 2014-06-02 Blockchain.info CEO: We Pay Employees in Bitcoin. And Someday You Mi Post by: steelboy on June 08, 2014, 03:26:53 PM Jimbob's, a sandwich shop in Oxford pays a percentage of it's staffs wages in bitcoin.
Title: Re: 2014-06-02 Blockchain.info CEO: We Pay Employees in Bitcoin. And Someday You Mi Post by: okthen on June 08, 2014, 11:04:28 PM Being actually paid in btc might take a while to become mainstream.
More than buying/selling products anyway. Companies would be afraid of tax control and being deemed illegal. Title: Re: 2014-06-02 Blockchain.info CEO: We Pay Employees in Bitcoin. And Someday You Mi Post by: Ron~Popeil on June 10, 2014, 11:19:36 PM Being actually paid in btc might take a while to become mainstream. More than buying/selling products anyway. Companies would be afraid of tax control and being deemed illegal. Contract positions would be easier to get for sure. No need to deal with social security and taxes. Just issue a 1099 each year. |