Interview with ShirtWasCash, A Fully (Almost) Vertical Bitcoin Company
You are hearing more often than before about people taking partial payments in Bitcoins for their salary, but I bet you haven’t heard much of companies where everything that can be paid for in Bitcoin, is paid in Bitcoin. Meet ShirtWasCash where rent, salary, and supplies are paid in Bitcoin. Anon does liquidate some Bitcoin due to the volatility of Bitcoin, but he also understands the potential of it, so he also holds and tries to pay people in Bitcoin as much as he can. Until now, I haven’t heard of a Bitcoin Vertical company as well. So when coming across this Reddit post, I was....
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