paid 250 salaries to staff in () last month, the revealed in a on May 23.
The firm was responding to Peter Schiff, the CEO of Euro Pacific Capital, who had claimed “there is no way that people are going to work for salaries paid in .”
As an aside, Kraken added:
“By the way, the employee who took 100% in 2012 retired in 2013.”
Kraken reportedly employs about 800 people. While this figure suggests about 30% of its workforce are being paid in , there could be some way to go before it is commonplace in the company.
Across the industry, there are some in place that can stop employers from offering crypto salaries at all. For example, in the , workers must be paid to some extent in cash or checks — and it is still unclear in many countries how such earnings should be taxed. Price is another concern, as ’s value could rise or fall dramatically in the hours after a salary has been paid.
Last month, a former Kraken employee announced he was the firm for $900,000, alleging that the exchange had failed to pay him for his work there.
Published at Sat, 25 May 2019 08:12:16 +0000
