THELOGICALINDIAN - Australian Bitcoin salarycompany Get Paid In Bitcoin is competingfor an Innovative Startup accolade in its home accompaniment Tasmania Voting is now underway
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GPIB is nominated in the Innovative Startup class at the Innovative Tasmania Awards 2016. Voting for the awards, which are allotment of a blur anniversary in the City of Launceston, runs until September 30.
The anniversary itself will booty places from November 10-13 this year.
The choice represents addition footfall appear boilerplate accepting for Bitcoin in Australia. Although regulators and governments accept been acquiescent to Bitcoin, some banks accept been afraid to assignment with related startups.
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Speaking to Bitcoin.com, Get Paid in Bitcoin architect and CEO Adam Poulton said the aggregation had done little advance so far. Its advance has been “100% organic” back a soft-launch aftermost December.
“We feel that Bitcoin is still in the aboriginal adopter appearance with abounding questions about its appliance from the added public,” Poulton said, “as abounding of the approved things you apprehend to do with money are either absent or difficult.”
Like BitWage in the US, GPIB aims to accomplish Bitcoin seamless for audience by automatically advantageous a allotment of their approved bacon anon to their bitcoin wallets. It removes the charge to manually barter dollars, absolution users save or absorb the bitcoins they accept as they choose.
Employers Can Participate, Or Not
Clients assurance up with GPIB apart of their employers, acceptation they don’t accept to acknowledge their absorption in Bitcoin to their bosses. If administration are interested, however, GPIB provides a aperture for them to action Bitcoin accomplishment to their staff.
The account accuse a collapsed $1 AUD fee per deposit.
Poulton said the acknowledgment so far is positive, abnormally from audience with no antecedent Bitcoin experience.
“We anticipate this will be a able advance baton into the future, bringing new bodies into Bitcoin and acceptance advance of the BTC abridgement and retail Bitcoin sector,” he said.
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Poulton additionally serves as the accepted admiral of an advancement organization, the Bitcoin Association of Australia (BAA). A Launceston resident, he has participated in several initiatives to advance bitcoin in the city over the years.
He additionally ran for a Senate bench in the country’s July federal election, apery the experimental open democracy party, Flux. The affair has no political platform, but allows associates to adjudge on issues via a blockchain-based voting system.
Poulton said Get Paid in Bitcoin admiring the absorption of addition awards organizers through a Smart Cities project. Smart Cities is a civic action advised to adapt Australian cities to innovate and “succeed in the 21st Century economy”.
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