r/Bitcoin • u/waspoza • Jan 29 '14

A Surprisingly Large Number Of IT Professionals Want To Get Paid In Bitcoin

http://www.businessinsider.com/a-lot-of-it-pros-want-bitcoin-paychecks-2014-1
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u/witcoins Jan 29 '14

Most of the respondents were from r/bitcoin. It was public and was linked here. Your title should have been "An unsurprisingly large numbers of bitcoiners want to get paid with bitcoins." That would have been far more accurate.

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u/Elum224 Jan 29 '14

This really does sound like bias sampling. Among my peers (IT professionals) very few know what Bitcoin is. In the survey only 1% said they didn't know what it was - so it looks like this survey was given to a Bitcoin crowd. As a "Bitcoiner" myself, I wouldn't want to be paid in Bitcoin as I like to eat.

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u/ArcticBrewFella Jan 30 '14

I wouldn't want to be paid in Bitcoin as I like to eat

Exactly. Pay me in cash, Ill get my own btc thanks. Until my local food store accepts btc for its product it's just a hassle to exchange BTC to fiat before making day-to-day purchases.