Some Internet Archive employees to receive some of their pay in Bitcoin in April
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Re: Some Internet Archive employees to receive some of their pay in Bitcoin in April
#2Slightly OT: Why would you ever put a QR code on a web page instead of a link?
If I'm on my computer, I'm not going to pull out my phone to scan it. If I'm on my phone, how would I even scan it?
Re: Some Internet Archive employees to receive some of their pay in Bitcoin in April
#3I found the title of this post to be misleading or at least stressing its point. The article says
"Some Internet Archive employees have elected to receive some of their pay in Bitcoin in April."
so it's not all employees, not all of their pay and not all of the time, as I expected from the headline.
Re: Some Internet Archive employees to receive some of their pay in Bitcoin in April
#4Slightly OT: Why would you ever put a QR code on a web page instead of a link? If I'm on my computer, I'm not going to pull out my phone to scan it. If I'm on my phone, how would I even scan it?
Its for times when you want to open a link on your phone when you are reading it on the computer. Like the Chrome to phone chrome extension.
Re: Some Internet Archive employees to receive some of their pay in Bitcoin in April
#5Slightly OT: Why would you ever put a QR code on a web page instead of a link? If I'm on my computer, I'm not going to pull out my phone to scan it. If I'm on my phone, how would I even scan it?
Here's a very funny rant about the overuse of QR codes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2rVYvylvZc
Re: Some Internet Archive employees to receive some of their pay in Bitcoin in April
#6Yay no taxes, the end of civilization.
Re: Some Internet Archive employees to receive some of their pay in Bitcoin in April
#7Slightly OT: Why would you ever put a QR code on a web page instead of a link? If I'm on my computer, I'm not going to pull out my phone to scan it. If I'm on my phone, how would I even scan it?
In general, I completely agree (though I have never seen it happen before). This is not a link, however, but a bitcoin address encoded as a QR code.
I - as do many others - have a Bitcoin wallet application with some change on my phone. Having the QR code here makes it easier to contribute something.
Re: Some Internet Archive employees to receive some of their pay in Bitcoin in April
#8Interesting to know how the tax on these bitcoins would work. Would this count as a taxable perk? If so, would that count as the government counting their existence and value?
Re: Some Internet Archive employees to receive some of their pay in Bitcoin in April
#9I'd prefer to be payed in candy, at least I could eat the candy.
Re: Some Internet Archive employees to receive some of their pay in Bitcoin in April
#10Yay no taxes, the end of civilization.
They'll still have to pay taxes. The same way that if they paid them in computer parts they'd have to pay taxes on the value of those.