Internet Archive Paying Employees in Bitcoin, Asking for Donations

A bit of a public service announcement, here. It looks like last night, Internet Archive sustained significant fire damage at their San Francisco scanning center. The archive reports that nobody, nor any data was lost in the fire. The center is used to scan new documents into the archive, and they estimate upwards of $600,000 worth of damage was done to high-end digitization equipment. Archive.org is asking anyone who can spare some change to do so, in order to help them rebuild. They accept bitcoin donations. The Internet Archive is a non-profit organization that is designed to build a....

The Internet Archive’s founder Brewster Kahle has joined the boards of advisors for the Filecoin Foundation and the Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web. The Internet Archive, an American nonprofit behind major digital archive Wayback Machine, has received a $10 million cryptocurrency donation from the Filecoin Foundation.According to a Friday announcement, the Filecoin Foundation has donated 50,000 Filecoin (FIL) tokens to the Internet Archive, worth more than $10 million at the time of writing. The grant is designed to help the Internet Archive increase access to its online....

GSM Solutions' Managing Director Alan Donohoe has responded to our email, explaining that the employees who are receiving part of their pay in bitcoin work in the head office: "We believed it best to start with our head office where we have five employees who work with bitcoin on a daily basis, so they understood the importance of this step in the evolution of bitcoin in Ireland." He adds that: "Paying our staff in bitcoin is another step in the direction of helping to extend the bitcoin ecosystem into our economy." An Irish company has begun paying its employees' salaries in bitcoin.....

A newly released survey from Bitwage, a bitcoin-focused payroll solution provider, has revealed that 47% of bitcoin companies are open to paying their employees in the digital currency. The survey sought to assess the sentiment toward bitcoin payroll options held at more than 150 bitcoin-friendly companies, most of which were based in the US. In total, 38 companies responded, with 18 reporting they would be open to paying bitcoin wages. Of the companies surveyed, 10.5% of the employers who responded are currently paying employees, at least in part, in bitcoin. Notable bitcoin companies....

Do you know the way to San Jose? John Law does, having spent some time there in the '90s, and can report that -- apart from the song and the deeply strange Rosicrucians -- there's little to recommend the place. Milton Keynes with palm trees. Yet it's that strange mixture of the tediously prosaic and unnervingly weird that makes it the ideal place for a Bitcoin conference. And last weekend's Bitcoin 2013 did not disappoint, combining earnest discussions about taxation and regulation with vodka brand launches, rap singers and revolutionaries. And as San Jose is also the heart of Silicon....