Finnish software firm offers to pay part of staff's salary in virtual Bitcoin currency by @robinwauters

Finnish Software Firm To Pay Employees Partly In Bitcoin

thenextweb.com 15 Mar '13, 11am

Finnish software firm offers to pay part of staff's salary in virtual Bitcoin currency by @robinwauters

Here’s an interesting experiment, and a first of its kind at least to our knowledge: Finnish HTML5 software developer SC5 has started providing employees with the option to have a part of their salary paid in the decentralized peer-to-peer currency Bitcoin (via Hacker News ). SC5′s Martti Malmi (who also happens to be a former core developer of the digital Bitcoin currency), blogged about the move: “We are doing this just out of curiosity to try out new things. Bitcoin as such fits our vision of the world quite well. It allows for open source development, competition and innovation in the field of payments and Internet commerce. Based on cryptography, it is secure and deterministic as we require for digital services. As a comparison, credit cards rely on few enough physical cards getting stolen or copied and the centralized organizations covering fraud for billions of doll...

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