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Good PR, but why would anyone want to get part of their salary paid in bitcoins? You get the disadvantages of both.
by DoubleCluster 14y ago
Good PR, but why would anyone want to get part of their salary paid in bitcoins? You get the disadvantages of both.
- piokoch 14y agoUnless you don't need to pay taxes if you get your salary in bitcoins :)
- arethuza 14y agoIf all it took to avoid income tax was to be paid in a different currency then I would assume someone would have noticed that by now. Personally, I find tax returns are bad enough without including multiple currencies! :-)
- lukifer 14y agoAFAIK, it's ambiguous if governments consider BitCoin to be currency. I thought that's why BTC theft is problematic: as far as the law is concerned, nothing of value was taken, and at best you'd have to prosecute under hacking laws, not theft. (I'm a BitCoin noob, tell me if I'm wrong.) :)
- jerguismi 14y agoAutomatic dollar-averaged investment done by the company. I would like that service if I were a regular worker.
- brittohalloran 14y agoIn the most volatile stock ever
- jerguismi 14y agoAnd the best-performing asset for the last 2-3 years or so? Also pretty natural for high-tech IT company to allow this kind of thing.
- betterunix 14y agoPast performance is not an indication of future performance.
- jerguismi 14y agoI didn't say so.
- danielbarla 14y agoWouldn't it be more accurate to call it a commodity? Stocks are (usually) stakes in a company, whose employees are actively trying to make a profit for the shareholders, whereas currencies just kind of... sit there (and move around, more or less randomly, at least, non-predictably).
- smrtinsert 14y agoi believe currencies are traded in the form of FOREX futures, which are contracts that must be settled on a date sometime from now. they are not mediated by an exchange like NASDAQ if memory serves, its just one big crazy open market. i would say bitcoin trading belongs in the category of DIGEX then, a digital currency exchange.