Twitter looking into Bitcoin payments for employees, says CFO
"We’ve done a lot of the upfront thinking to consider how we might pay employees should they ask to be paid in Bitcoin," said Ned Segal. Twitter may be the next major company to purchase Bitcoin, according to the tech firm's chief financial officer.In an interview on CNBC’s Squawk Box today, Ned Segal, who has served as the CFO of Twitter since 2017, responded to questions about how Twitter would react to Tesla’s recent $1.5 billion Bitcoin (BTC) investment this week. Segal said the tech firm was watching other companies closely, and discussed potentially adding the crypto asset to its own....
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