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Re:Amazon denies report of accepting Bitcoin as payment by fnord77 on Monday July 26, 2021 @07:38PM (#27966869)
I'm sure they'd want nothing more than to be able to pay their employees with amazon gift cards so the only place they can spend their earnings is at the company store.
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Re:Amazon denies report of accepting Bitcoin as payment by uncoder0 on Monday July 26, 2021 @08:53PM (#27967380)
I don't doubt that they love the company store model. I've been offered AWS credits in lieu of cash for contract work.... after the cash amount was agreed to in writing and work was performed.
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Re:Amazon denies report of accepting Bitcoin as payment by chii on Monday July 26, 2021 @11:49PM (#27968405)
how would the worker pay their taxes, if amazon did that? Presumably, the US gov't will not accept amazon gift-card in lieu of cash.
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Re:Amazon denies report of accepting Bitcoin as payment by atatatat on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @10:04AM (#27972590)
You think most Amazon warehouse workers make enough to pay taxes?
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Re:Amazon denies report of accepting Bitcoin as payment by throaway46546 on Monday July 26, 2021 @11:09PM (#27968210)
Don't a lot of mechanical turk workers get paid in gift cards?
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