A Dominoâs Pizza franchisee in the Netherlands is offering to pay its employees in bitcoin â appropriately starting on Bitcoin Pizza Day.
- Staff taking up the option will be able to choose how much of their salary above the minimum wage â which must be paid in euros by law â they wish to receive in bitcoin, according to an announcement Saturday.
- The franchisee, Immensus Holdings, is Holland's largest with 16 Dominoâs stores, and will offer the salary option in partnership with Dutch fiat-to-crypto gateway BTC Direct.
- The company has over 1,000 internal and external employees who can opt into the scheme.
- âWe work with a lot of young employees. We hear them talking about bitcoin and we want to offer the opportunity to own cryptocurrency,â Immensuus co-owner Jonathan Gurevich said.
- The news was announced on Bitcoin Pizza Day, which commemorates the first time bitcoin was used as a form of payment when developer Laszlo Hanyecz used 10,000 BTC to pay for two pizzas on May 22, 2010.
- That amount of bitcoin is worth almost $410 million at time of writing.
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