Rescuing crypto workers from terrible US job conditions: John Paller
John Paller is training a new generation of blockchain workers and giving them the tools to live free from the chains of full-time employment. After a chance conversation with a Russian dude wearing a weird T-shirt at a 2014 conference Vitalik Buterins father, Dmitry John Pallers life was transformed by having a front-row seat for the birth of Ethereum. He went on to create the largest Ethereum hackathon and founded an initiative to help at-risk youth find job opportunities in the burgeoning crypto industry.According to Paller, the majority of workers in the United States will be....
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A bill has been introduced in Argentina to allow workers to receive their salaries in cryptocurrency. He explained the idea is that workers “can strengthen their autonomy and conserve the purchasing power of their remuneration.” Argentina’s national deputy for the Mendoza province, José Luis Ramón, tweeted that he has introduced a bill allowing workers to get paid in bitcoin. He wrote, as translated by Google: I presented a bill so that independent workers … have the option of receiving their full or partial salary in cryptocurrencies. He added:....
As crypto adoption steadily increases, more and more institutions are considering it as a payment option for employees. A member of Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies, Luizão Goulart, proposed a bill to provide public and private sector workers with a crypto payment option. This means that Brazilian workers would have the option to request their pay in cryptocurrencies. […]
A recent report states that freelancing is experiencing a boom in Argentina, and also comments on how Argentinians are among workers in the region that most actively use cryptocurrencies to receive part of their paycheck. The report further states that workers accepting their paychecks in crypto favor traditional cryptocurrencies such as ether and bitcoin, which together amount to almost 90% of the payments made in crypto.
Freelancing and Crypto Becoming More Popular in Argentina
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Crypto ecosystems provide tools and functionalities that collide perfectly with the chaotic world of sex workers. Banks, Mastercard, Visa, PayPal, Square, Circle, Cashapp, Venmo, and many platforms have contributed to pulling the rug under adult content creators multiple times, to a point in which there is no safe way left for them to get paid […]