Bitcoin for Freelancers: Popular Billing Service Hiveage Adds Bitcoin

On December 19, 2014, United States President Barack Obama signed an executive order prohibiting financial transactions between people and businesses located in the United States and Crimea a region of Ukraine. Because of the sanctions, Crimean oDesk freelancers were no longer able to receive payment for their work if they were employed by US companies. Even worse, the companies couldn’t pay them for the services they already completed due to the legal restraints. oDesk is one of the world’s largest freelance marketplaces, allowing freelancers to set their own rates and businesses to find....

Financial uncertainty is the last thing freelancers want to worry about these days. With PayPal.me, money is never guaranteed to be yours, regardless of where it comes from. For freelancers, the primary objective is to receive funds on time, and in a convenient manner. Bitcoin seems to address a lot of concerns in this regard, as it is a global payment option. But in India, there is still competition from PayPal, as they launched a new P2P service recently. Competition is good, as it will benefit the consumer in the end. Moreover, this goes to show the importance of peer-to-peer payments.....

Bitcoin is a very powerful tool to bring more financial freedom to people all over the world. One of the key groups of workers who could benefit from Bitcoin is freelancers. Dealing with different employers and different contracts is a big hassle, so the least a freelancer wants is to accept a uniform payment method that works all over the world. Despite best efforts by traditional finance, they are no match for Bitcoin in this regard. The Rise of Freelancers In Ukraine And Beyond. Ukraine is one of the countries in the world where freelancers are quite easy to come by. Unlike most....

A new bitcoin micropayments tool has launched to take aim at the global freelance and on-demand services market. Called Faradam (after inventor Michael Faraday), the service uses a simple timer to facilitate payment between two parties, with freelancers seeking to leverage the service only needing to provide their name, hourly work rate and bitcoin address. In turn, those looking to employ short-term services simply receive a link and connect a wallet. Created by former Quasar Ventures senior business analyst Demian Brener; engineer Esteban Ordano; and Manuel Araoz, the developer behind....

All-in-one billing service provider Paydici announced this morning that they are partnering up with Atlanta, Georgia-based BitPay in effort to bring recurring billing to the bitcoin realm, a move Paydici says "will help ensure that businesses large and small can transact in bitcoin with their clients on a recurring basis without a taxing manual process." Paydici partners up with accounting solutions and financial institutions, offering turnkey billing, invoicing and payment solution for small and medium-size businesses. (I'd also like to take this time to point out that Portland,....