A world of opportunities for freelancers

[angel55]

I'll remain optimistic but rarely any freelancers outside of this forum accept bitcoin.  It is a hassle for them to convert over to fiat and they will also lose an additional percentage from trading on an exchange.

[bitzizzix]

I think this will be effective and provide a very good opportunity for freelancers and it will be a fun job for them.
gradually I think bitcoin or cryptocurrency will be increasingly popular for those who don't understand it will understand and understand it and will join to earn income.

[sarmrakib]

There are many reason behind that avoid the bitcoin transaction. First of all bitcoin is high volatile .Many countries still don't accept btc so that freelancer face to convert it into their local currency .we need to spread our speech and make people to use bitcoin easily . Bitcon is a great asset it has a future so that it could not be affect to be volatile ,we can hold it .However it will be so easy to make transaction to the freelancer and get paid easily by bitcoin .I think bitcoin will be popular in the new future to the freelancer and Buyer .

[incomefromcoins]

There is more than 500 percent growth in online merchant and freelancers adoption through cryptocurrencies which is a good sign for the industry especially freelancers they can trade easily with crypto currencies

[FIFA worldcup]

Paying for Freelancers using Bitcoin is a great and effective method because it eliminates any barrier that might occur when paying via fiat currency because Bitcoin is build to provide so many benefits for users who do international transactions on line which might make benefit for both freelancers and personals who hire them to do work and it can definitely help the global jobless problem and provide more opportunities to skillful people

Bitcoin has helped Freelancers are a lot as now they can easily get paid in crytpo and they do not have to find any service like Payoneer / Paypal etc which used to deduct a lot of fee, before sending the money to Freelancers.

[drumamat]

bitcoin is being used in so many places throughout the world but it can be so much more. It's obvious that there are so many freelancers in every country. Firms, companies, startups etc.. have a limitation that they can hire freelancers only from their country since they can pay them only in their native currency to avoid hassle of exchange. But if firms, companies, startups etc.. start using bitcoin as a payment method to hire freelancers then there will be so many opportunities for the freelancers since they can get work from anywhere in the world. I don't know why has  this not become a huge thing until now. This could really change the life of freelancers and give a better end result/product to the company they are working for.

Yes, it really is a very big opportunity. Such projects should appear soon. Worldwide freelancing is really the future.At the same time, the use of cryptocurrency is the best way to pay for freelancers.I am sure many will be convenient and profitable to receive payment for their work in cryptocurrency.

[andthereyou]

bitcoin is being used in so many places throughout the world but it can be so much more. It's obvious that there are so many freelancers in every country. Firms, companies, startups etc.. have a limitation that they can hire freelancers only from their country since they can pay them only in their native currency to avoid hassle of exchange. But if firms, companies, startups etc.. start using bitcoin as a payment method to hire freelancers then there will be so many opportunities for the freelancers since they can get work from anywhere in the world. I don't know why has  this not become a huge thing until now. This could really change the life of freelancers and give a better end result/product to the company they are working for.

It's a good idea to use bitcoin as a payment method. However there's still many companies/people think that bitcoin is a scam or something that will not last long. Thus they are afraid to buy bitcoin for a payment method.

[gidaahmad]

this is one of the functions of payment with Bitcoin. Developer website freelancers, of course, must find the best method to make it easier for workers to receive payments, after they complete their assignments.

[leonair]

Because most of the CEO or even the owners of companies don't have yet the trust to cyptocurrency that they are giving to bank as most of them are getting used with traditional payments for a long time so the relation between them are solid, jumping a payment platform to another would take a lot of time and effort.

[Purvik]

The world of freelancers is truly wide if they will keep on driving to the freelance world wherein they have their own time and own world to kick on the living world. Bitcoin is one of the world that lots of feeelances exist and make life of them there.

[EdenHazard]

I think for some freelancer they don't have problem's when they work is payed by any currency, they just do/search a really trusted company that can pay them for the work they do. The problem's is just for a company itself, they don't need take a risk too much to use bitcoin as a system of payment of wages. The volatility might can be made as one of the reason, although I see there is advantage for some company that use bitcoin as their payment system.

For instance, they will pay 0.01 for freelancer per week and the company budget for one freelancer is $100 per week, then in the current bitcoin price the company can benefit because with $100 can get 0.02 BTC so the quota should be $100 only for one person they can give it to 2 freelancers. That is the advantage side for company, however, because the price of bitcoin is very volatile, it can rise at any time, it can overwhelm them, with $ 100 they may not be able to buy bitcoin with the amount of 0.01.

[pooya87]

Many countries still don't accept btc so that freelancer face to convert it into their local currency

a "country" doesn't have to accept bitcoin for freelancers to accept it as payment. bitcoin is a decentralized peer to peer currency that should work just like that. and whenever anybody gets paid in bitcoin they can always convert it back to their local currency no matter where in the world they live in.

in fact it will be more profitable to live in a country with restrictive bitcoin related laws because in those countries price of bitcoin is going to be a lot higher. so you get paid $100 in bitcoin for example but sell it for $150 and make 50% profit just because price of it is higher in  your country!

[bitfocus]

yes, that is a great opportunity but there is a catch, in 3rd word countries . A few BD guys work for me but they cant take payment in BTC or use BTC as their government banned BTC and All crypto, and there is no available Crypto Card they they can use there - we should take steps to tackle such situations and bypass such issues so that we can help them atleast use crypto cards.

[r1s2g3]

The problem is legislation issues in few countries and still we derive the value of BTC from fiat so I guess developer like to take fiat in preference instead pf taking BTC then taking hassle to convert it into fiat.

[Upgrade00]

Volatility is the top reason why this is not being exploited by freelancers and their employers.
Also, there's the issue of bitcoins legality in the different states. It is possible to own and transfer bitcoins even in countries where it is illegal, but not every business or company would want to get involved with that.

In a couple of years. And with reduction in price fluctuations, bitcoin would be more popular as a means of payments globally.

[ice18]

I think one of the most obvious reason why they are still on doubt on btc to use in international payments is it is not fully legal in many countries the legality is one of the issues that has not been resolve over the past years when it comes to cryto currency, most companies who hires freelancers will not use btc right now but I believe once regulators decided on the legality of this digital money they will surely shift from traditional payments to digital payment systems.

[kram31]

1. They(one of both parties) simply dislike the volatile nature of bitcoin

This is the best thing that people love on the cryptocurrency.
This way anyone can earn on their investment as the price keeps moving. and if you are good on it then you will have it successful!
This is what i like with BITCOIN! demands make it move!

[NeuroticFish]

I think one of the most obvious reason why they are still on doubt on btc to use in international payments is it is not fully legal in many countries the legality is one of the issues that has not been resolve over the past years when it comes to cryto currency, most companies who hires freelancers will not use btc right now but I believe once regulators decided on the legality of this digital money they will surely shift from traditional payments to digital payment systems.

The problem is not the legality. It's legal in most of the countries. The problem is that it's not clear how to calculate the taxes (for employer and employee) and it can be an extra hassle to convert fiat into BTC / BTC into fiat, since both ends of the deal have no experience and don't know what tools / exchanges / shops use for this.
But I expect that also this mean of payment will gain more ground, slowly, especially after the downtrend on the markets stops.

[Jocuserious]

Actually if bitcoin is used in all cases then it’s will help to increasing bitcoin price more.However, it does not seem to be used in this case freelancers.Because bitcoin has not yet been accepted in many countries.They may face any problem to sell bitcoin.But if the government of that country and the bank accepts bitcoin,Then maybe it might be possible.

[cabron]

There were projects for freelancers actually. They are not just used much though, crypto isn't accessible for the wider audience that freelancers who only have paypal and are working on upwork only desire USD. Projects like ethlance and bitjob would have been good also if they are allowing paypal users to use the platform.