Inside Bitcoins San Diego: Bitwage Founder Jonathan Chester Speaks
Today, we have an interview with the founder of Bitwage, a company that aims to pay workers with bitcoin that in turn pay bitwage through wire transfers. The instructions are fairly straight-forward. Bitwage will send you a bank number, you tell your employer to wire transfer your paycheck to said bank number and voila, bitwage will then pay you in bitcoins. What is Bitwage? “Bitwage is the largest bitcoin payroll provider in terms of users and volume. We make it incredibly easy for anyone to send and receive wages in bitcoin. We offer three main solutions, payroll individual, payroll....
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BitWage is a company that allows you to receive a percentage of your paycheck in bitcoin. The company also provides assistance with legal papers. Additionally, it is not necessary to have a bank account to use Bitwage’s services. Amagi Metals and ChangeTip both use BitWage to pay their employees in Bitcoin, making it a well-known company in the Bitcoin space. I was able to talk to Jonathan Chester, the founder and Chief Operations Officer of BitWage, and ask him a few questions. Below is a YouTube video by Jonathan showing you how to sign up for BitWage.
We know many developing countries have leapfrogged certain development stages thanks to rapid adaptation to evolutions in technology. This is one of the main reasons why internet in Silicon Valley is slower than in Romania, Lithuania and Hong Kong, with the latter topping 2014 speed charts according to the most recent Ookla Global Net Index. This is also why people in Africa connect to the internet more often with a mobile phone than their computer. Jonathan Chester, founder of BitWage, sees the role of BitWage in bringing modern banking tools to this emerging segment of electronic money....
Readers may already be familiar with Bitwage, the San Francisco-based company that lets people receive part of their earnings in bitcoins. It works pretty simply. The user delegates a portion of each paycheck to the Bitwage account, and in return he is credited with bitcoins to any wallet he chooses. Bitwage COO Jonathan Chester spoke to CCN and told us that there are three kinds of customers looking to use Bitwage at the moment. There are the ones who are just looking to build steadily up Bitcoin, long-term holders. There are those who are looking to take the funds and use them in the....
Silicon Valley-based payment gateway Bitwage has announced major changes to its freelance employment platform. Bitwage My Employment (ME) is a payment-verified professional profile that allows workers to build an online reputation from freelance marketplaces and directly from the clients they have worked with. In a blog post, the President of Bitwage, Jonathan Chester says that his company has over 250 jobs posted a day, even while on the beta testing phase. Bitwage ME exits Beta. Chester tells Cointelegraph that Bitwage is currently making a few final touches to their new system which....
Bitwage is an international bitcoin payroll provider. The company offers a service that enables users to receive their wages in bitcoin. Bitwage is trying to introduce the future of international payroll. Companies using Bitwage can reduce payroll costs, and other benefits while being able to increase visibility into the payment process. Bitwage developed an app that simplifies the payroll process for people working abroad. The company allows employees to both receive a wage and pay for goods and services in Bitcoin. Through Bitwage, people no longer need to have a bank account to receive....