Polish Web Design Company Pays Salaries in Bitcoin
Several months after becoming one of the first Poland-based businesses to accept payments in bitcoins, web developer and design company EL Passion made the news again when it offered its employees the chance to receive their salaries either partly or entirely in bitcoins. The EL Passion website states that: "After much interest in the company about bitcoin and crypto-currencies in general, we've decided to provide our employees with the choice of having their salaries paid in bitcoin. This makes EL Passion the first company in Poland to pay salaries in bitcoin. "Open source is a big part....
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