Quote from: DaNNy001 on October 11, 2023, 12:02:21 PM

Quote from: wd1 on October 08, 2023, 04:06:38 AM

I live in an underdeveloped country, but I work remotely for a fairly good web development agency. We don't have a lot of financial services/wallets here, so we had to go circumvent a lot of obstacles for me the money to get to my local bank account. This whole process took a hefty fee, and time. And the worst part is the currency is absolutely shit and deteriorating (even compared to other fiat currencies),

Recently, I convinced them to start paying me in BTC. I save what I have to save, and convert the rest to fiat via P2P trading. Its so quicker and I get great deals, no more bullshit. I think this has been a great benefit of crypto for underdeveloped nations.

I have been accumulating bitcoin from a long time from my freelance work, but getting paid in it by my regular work feels awesome!

That's a very nice initiative and I think this was only possible because thr firm you work for are use to talk the whole Bitcoin concept if not it would have been difficult to really convince your boss to actually pay you in crypto instead of the regular fiat but all the same it's a good achievement for you and also your boss because he will be familiar more with crypto since the payment is all through Bitcoin. In a country where Bitcoin is frawn upon with a negative view it will be hard to achieve this.

You can surely say that again. It would've been hard to achieve such an agreement if OP's boss is someone who is very traditional or closed off to the idea of cryptocurrency. To people like those having such change or a foreign system is a risk that is too much for them to take just for a single employee and honestly, they'll see it as additional work that requires time and effort that they would definitely not want to give. Additionally, you're right regarding the point of legalization of Bitcoin and the society's view or opinion regarding it playing a big role for others to make a decision like this as no business wants to be in the bad light in the eyes of the law and the general people.