Last month, remote hiring startup Deel (YC W19) published their State of Global Hiring Report 2021 [Direct PDF Download]
Deel can bring on independent contractors and hire full-time employees in over 150 countries, compliantly in minutes.
Though only a fraction (2%) of payments through Deel to workers (contract or full-time) are withdrawn in "crypto" (just 2% for Q3 & Q4, 2021), the number of people wanting to be paid in cryptocurrency has been increasing 10% Month-Over-Month since November 2020.
And the cryptocurrency most often withdrawn is, by far, bitcoin: