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June 30, 2014, 01:21:30 AM |
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昨天在纽约召开Bitcoin的招聘会,200多名求职者参加，这是一个有组织的求职网络，在比特币舞台上连接有潜力的员工和企业。
本次活动由Bitcoin Center NYC在纽约的金融区Broad Street主持。 BitPay，Coinbase，Coinsetter和eGifter均为较高知名度的企业，在招聘会上是有代表性的比特币公司。总共有11个雇主。
Bitcoin中心的业务发展部主管Alex Palantzas表示，招聘会是他们曾经遇到最拥挤和成功的活动之一，他告诉CoinDesk：
“投票结果（比特币支付工资）有压倒性优势的。”
丹尼尔·梅斯特，一名史蒂文斯理工学院的学生，主要想要从事网络和软件开发工作，要求比特币支付工资。
他说：
“我认为这类招聘会是打算做大，我们将开始看到更多的人在某地接收比特币支付工资，也许一旦成为主流，人们都会开始要求用比特币支付工资。”
评论：只要比特币流通价值大，就是事实上的货币，支付工资就顺理成章，目前的风险之一是波动性。但对投机者而言，波动性就是价值。
More than 200 job seekers convened yesterday at the Bitcoin Job Fair in New York, an organized networking function to connect potential employees with companies in the bitcoin arena.
The event was hosted by the Bitcoin Center NYC on Broad Street in New York’s Financial District. BitPay, Coinbase, Coinsetter and eGifter were among the higher-profile companies with representation at the job fair. There were 11 employers in total.
Alex Palantzas, head of business development at the Bitcoin Center said the job fair is one of the most crowded and successful events they have ever had, telling CoinDesk:
“The turnout is pretty overwhelming.”
The latest Bitcoin Job Fair follows a successful launch in San Francisco, which saw the 34 startups come together with more than 400 job seekers. The results may not be indicative of a poor turnout in New York, however. Previous research from CoinDesk indicates that New York is the number two state in the US for bitcoin professionals, but that it trails California by a substantial margin.
The Bitcoin Job Fair is the product of Coinality, the online job and resume board for prospective employers and employees to connect about jobs paying in digital currencies, and the Plug and Play Tech Center, the Sunnyvale, CA-based accelerator that specializes in tech startups; in partnership with Bitcoin Center NYC.
Bitcoin jobs diversify
The employers at the event were looking for candidates of all skill sets, to hire for positions across all departments – sales, marketing, business development and programming – based in and out of New York.
Palantzas said that many of the attendees had backgrounds that extend beyond programming, and that he was pleased to see the variety of people who came out and showed their interest in bitcoin:
“I noticed we have both people in technology and software development as well as people in finance and sales, which is very encouraging. My background is in finance and I’m happy to see more people from that industry coming to this new concept.”
“I was very happy to hear that people are concerned with the current financial system,” he added. “People are very knowledgeable, and they saw a solution – in bitcoin.”
Bitcoin entering the mainstream
The other distinction between job seekers was not in their skill sets but their objectives.
Some were interested in finding work in the industry to build their resume and career in the bitcoin space. But, others were purely interested in getting paid in bitcoin instead of the dollar so that they could own bitcoin, without having to purchase it themselves, to make watching bitcoin’s progress more interesting and to allow them to do more things like trade for other coins by owning some bitcoin themselves.
In either case, almost everyone agreed that the success of the job fair was indicative of bitcoin’s ascent into the mainstream.
Olivier Annoual is a cryptocurrency enthusiast interested in jobs on the tech side. Though he said he is still learning about digital currencies, he sees education on the subject becoming more accessible with bitcoin’s increasing popularity.
On the turnout at the job fair he said:
“It shows [bitcoin] has a good future and it shows it’s getting more popular. If more and more companies hire and start paying in bitcoin who knows how far it can go? When I first heard of it I didn’t think much of it, three years ago.”
Daniel Mestre, a student at Stevens Institute of Technology, is interested in jobs in web and software development mainly for the sake of being paid in bitcoin.
He said:
“I think these kind of job fairs are going to become bigger and we’re going to start seeing more of them at some point or another, maybe people will start demanding they get paid in bitcoin once mainstream interest spreads.”
Photos courtesy of Jonathan Kirsh
From: CoinDesk
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