In honor of the annual holiday Bitcoin Pizza Day, the management of the Dutch franchise Domino's Pizza offered employees to receive a salary in the first crypto.
Immensus Holding operates 16 Domino's pizzerias in the Netherlands with over 1000 employees. They will be able to decide how much of their salary they want to get in BTC using the BTC Direct service.
“We work with a large number of young employees. We hear them talking about the crypto and we desire to allow them to own Bitcoin, ”said Jonathan Gurevich, co-founder of Immensus.
Dutch law requires an employer to pay the minimum wage in euros only. However, employees may prefer other payments in bitcoin.
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Every year on May 22, the cryptocurrency community celebrates Bitcoin Pizza Day. The reason for the celebration was a landmark event for the industry when in 2010 the programmer Laszlo Heinitz purchased two pizzas for 10,000 BTC. They are worth $360M at the time of writing.
Recall that in February 2021, a Reddit user talked about the plans of a pizza delivery service driver to cash out tips in Bitcoin, which had been lying since 2013.
In May 2020, Laszlo Heinitz revealed that he spent well over 10,000 BTC on pizzas.