Hey all. I'm one of the people who pre-ordered ASICs from BFL back in June 2012. I have been anxiously awaiting their arrival ever since. I'm an experienced programmer and am very interested in Bitcoin related businesses, especially leveraging it to get more people in more corners of the world paid for their amazing work. I love open-source, but think contributors to open software should be paid for their amazing work.

I'm interested in making it easier for software projects to attract passionate developers, regardless of which country they live in, who also want to be paid for their contributions. Prior to Bitcoin it would have been challenging for a small software organization to collect revenue and distribute payments internationally to perhaps dozens of contributors in many countries.

Wondering if anyone out there has experience using Bitcoin as the primary means of paying people for their work? This could be one-time payments or ongoing. I see many here donating small amounts to eachother, but I'm more interested in hearing about people using Bitcoin to pay people at a rate closer to what they might need to support themselves and their families.

On the surface it seems Bitcoin solves this completely, but there must be things that can be added to make the process simpler? For example, how do you handle the accounting end? For those of you actually doing this, what are the challenges associated with paying people with bitcoins?

Thank you.

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