51% of Techies Happy to be Paid in Bitcoin, Survey Finds
Event organiser Tech in Motion recently carried out an interesting survey on digital currencies. The findings are hardly surprising: techies love bitcoin. Tech in Motion sent out questionnaires to 18,000 members and 847 were kind enough to respond. When asked whether they would like to be paid in bitcoin, 51.1% said "yes, absolutely". However, 18% said they would rather wait and see where bitcoin ends up in a year or two. The remainder said they would rather be paid in cash, while 9.9% said they would not accept bitcoin payments, as they don't believe the currency will last. Only 1.18% of....
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