HostDime to Implement Bitcoin Salaries: Bitcoin is the Currency of the Future
HostDime, a global data center provider, announced Wednesday that they are now accepting Bitcoin as a form of payment for all of their products and services.. The company will start accepting Bitcoin at their US and Brazil branches, and then progressively rollout to other branches in Mexico, UK, Netherlands, India, Colombia and Hong Kong. The decision to start accepting Bitcoin has been motivated by the fact that Bitcoin is available globally. Whether someone is a business person in Colombia, a student in Brazil or a freelancer in India, it is possible to pay and receive payments using....
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News agency Sputnik, operating in Kyrgyzstan, announced that as an experiment it would pay salaries to their employees in Bitcoins. This is interesting, because cryptocurrencies are still prohibited by Central Bank of the country. Despite the fact that Kyrgyzstan, like Russia, has a negative attitude to Bitcoins, the first Bitcoin ATM in Central Asia is installed in the capital of Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek, in pizzeria Dolce Vita. "State control of money is an atavism. Humanity is evolving rapidly and is no longer in need of supervision and enforcement apparatus. The members of a modern society....