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Though only a fraction (2%) of payments through Deel to workers (contract or full-time) are withdrawn in "crypto" (just 2% for Q3 & Q4, 2021), the number of people wanting to be paid in cryptocurrency has been increasing 10% Month-Over-Month since November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And the cryptocurrency most often withdrawn is, by far, bitcoin:
Here's a news article about the report:
https://bitcoinke.io/2022/03/10-percent-of-payroll-withdrawals-from-africa-in-crypto/
And now employers can use stablecoins to fund their payroll.
https://www.letsdeel.com/blog/fund-payroll-in-usdc
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