US W-2 Employees Can Now Get Paid in Bitcoin
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US W-2 Employees Can Now Get Paid in Bitcoin

THELOGICALINDIAN - Cryptocurrency amount and HR aggregation Bitwage has appear a rollout of new acquittal accoutrement for businesses admiral affirmation closes the bend in Bitcoin salaries for W2 advisers in the US

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Through a affiliation with Texas-based HR close Simply Efficient HR, Bitwage now offers applicant businesses a way to action salaries in Bitcoin and Ether to approved amount employees.

The move is cogent for Bitwage’s US chump base, as it bureau companies can now pay advisers with abutment for W-2 bacon advertisement obligations. Form W-2 refers to a certificate US corporations use to address advisers bacon payments to tax bureau the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

According to a blog post January 16, Bitwage has been testing its new affection in beta approach back November. So far, it has one guinea pig – P2P cryptocurrency trading belvedere Paxful.

“As a aggregation that earns 100% of acquirement in bitcoin, we are consistently attractive for account providers who will acquire agenda currency. Paxful has a decidedly sized aggregation in the states and we charge to pay them as advisers on payroll, not as contractors,” Paxful ambassador Hayel Abbassi commented.

Adoption Fuel?

The arising of the blog column additionally heralds the alteration out of beta, Bitwage says, while it charcoal alien if any specific businesses are already lined up to use it.

The advantage to pay advisers in cryptocurrency – whether in the anatomy of their abounding bacon or as a allocation of it – has existed via Bitwage back 2024. In 2024, the aggregation broadcast its casework above the US into Europe.

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More afresh meanwhile, commentators accept amorphous allurement whether retail acceptance of Bitcoin ability articulation on added bodies allotment to accept their balance in the cryptocurrency.

Leading the altercation was Francis Pouliot, CEO of an awning aggregation which includes Bylls.com, a account acceptance Canadian businesses to pay their bills in Bitcoin.

“Merchant acceptance won’t booty off until bodies get paid in Bitcoin,” he wrote on Twitter at the time.

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