Crowdsourced Software Testing Marketplace offers payout in Bitcoin

[larrysalibra]

Hi All,

I'm Larry, co-founder of Pay4Bugs, the pay per bug software testing marketplace.  Our customers post projects (software, websites, apps, etc) on Pay4Bugs and off to pay our testers money ("bug bounty") for each valid bug or issue they report.  Customers don't pay unless they get results. Testers only get paid if they provide useful bug reports so that customers can fix the bugs before these defects hurt their own business.

Today, we announced that we're offering Bitcoin payment as an option in addition to PayPal for testers who have earned money on Pay4Bugs. This means you can get paid in Bitcoin for finding problems in other people's software.

You can read more here: https://www.pay4bugs.com/blog/2013/04/10/bitcoin-payout-for-testers/

[larrysalibra]

More background:

From the beginning, we've always paid our testers via PayPal..pretty much because that was the only option that to maximize our country coverage without having the high fees and hassles of bank wires. We didn't want to be leave people out just because they happened to be born in the wrong country.

In the last couple years, we've seen more and more countries have problems receiving PayPal payouts. Many of these countries are located in the Indian Subcontinent and former Soviet states - Areas with strong and competitive IT talent.  China has always been a no go zone for cross border PayPal transactions because of strict foreign currency and capital controls.

We've gotten email upon email from frustrated testers located in these countries who had little recourse when their government shut off access to the local banking system but to go through great expense to open a bank account outside their home country or have their PayPal funds wired to them.

Frankly, the situation is ridiculous...governments shouldn't be standing in the way of their hard working citizens getting paid.

Hopefully Bitcoin will bring some sanity to the situation.

[larrysalibra]

We're Hong Kong-based and pretty activity in both the Hong Kong and New York tech/startup scenes.  Be sure to say hi!

I'm planning to stop by the Bitcoin HK meetup next week - if anyone wants to meet up and chat bitcoin, economics or software testing.

http://www.meetup.com/Bitcoin-HK/events/111152832/

[CryptoPanda]

I would like to submit a bug bounty (for site in sig) but only if I can pay for it in bitcoin?