Formal employment is indeed very frustrating because the government doesn't yet have a well-developed tax system. We'll be subject to more taxes, including exchange taxes for fiat currency, which we'll use for our living expenses, since stores don't accept Bitcoin.

However, for informal work, like in this forum, or freelance work, I prefer Bitcoin because it's tax-free and only involves fees. I think that's much better.

That move shows that the CEO supports Bitcoin and wants them to know that he's also ready to receive it as payment. Such a move—even if the CEO wants to make a conversion by selling the Bitcoin—he will think twice because the wallet will be under watch since the wallet will be sent to the financial team to drop the payment, but that's all the decision of the CEO to make, as the money belongs to him.

They don't have to directly buy bitcoins but receiving it from their companies in salary. It saves time, trading and withdrawal fees on exchanges as well as gives them very good tool to do Dollar Cost Averaging for their Bitcoin investment. They don't have to find good prices for entries but just simply accumulate more bitcoins each week or month when salary payment is proceeded by their companies.

When receiving salary from companies, people can have to do this financial management too. Depends on their contracts and agreements in payment processing with their companies, they will need to have different proper strategies on financial management. They must do it well enough for achieving effortless investment in Bitcoin and oppositely with bad management, their investment will be dangerous.

The CEO can be a role model for many workers, staffs in that company but the rich and the poor will have different finance and management of their finance and life. I believe that the CEO only gave a chance for his workers and staffs, and the remaining task belongs to those people. Whether they are able to take advantage of this policy, it depends on themselves, not the CEO.

I don't think the policy of receiving a salary in Bitcoin is relevant, at least for now, if your salary is only enough to cover your monthly expenses. If you're a CEO and have a side hustle that covers your monthly expenses, I don't think it's a problem because you'll save Bitcoin every month. But for most employees, it's impossible not to spend their salary on themselves and their families. They'll exchange their Bitcoin for fees and won't be able to save in Bitcoin. So, I think it depends on how much you receive. -CMIIW

You are wrong, because I don't even think bitcoin can become a global currency one day. Besides the barriers from governments, they will never agree to make bitcoin a global currency, even bitcoin investors like us don't want that to become a reality. The proof is that most people just see it as an investment, they try to accumulate as much as possible and hold on to get rich. No one wants to spend it. Therefore, the idea of bitcoin becoming a global currency is just a pipe dream that will never come true.

I don't think it sends any message, we appreciate news like this because we are bitcoiners, but there are many ways to acquire BTC, there are already ceo's around the world that accept their salaries in fiat, but spend a percentage of it on BTC, but obviously that would not make the news. We do not also know how long this will last, we are only told he will accept his salary in BTC, will it be all through his time as ceo of the company.

May I ask, if the company's employees follow him and also decide to receive their salaries in bitcoin, what benefit does that bring to them? What are the benefits of getting paid in bitcoin for your main job?

I don't know what the benefits are but the first downside I see is that his or those employees' privacy will be significantly affected. Because company or someone can track what their money is used for, where it's spent...and to me that's an invasion of privacy. Would you feel comfortable if someone knew your bitcoin wallet address and tracked your every move?

I prefer my salary in BTC as well. I do not see the issue that some people have with this. In fiat, the money you earn slowly degenerates into nothing because of inflation. Sure, Bitcoin may drop in value sometimes and it might take a while for it to pick back up, but you can easily withdraw your BTC and trade it in for fiat at the very moment that your salary is transferred to you. Although if you plan to do that every time then there is no point in getting your salary in Bitcoin in the first place....

Still, I consider it a smart investment if you can spare to invest your salary.

Yep.

Freedom of choice and alternatives to what's already there are key to success in that case.