Disruptive technologies achieve mainstream adoption when they become reasonably interactive with existing conventions.
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Jonathan Chester News
Jonathan Chester is the Bitwage — a Bitcoin payroll and international wage payment service — founder and president. Jonathan Chester’s Bitcoin involvement started in 2013 and, since 2015, he has been contributing to Forbes concerning cryptocurrency and its technologies. The company he founded has become one of the top seven blockchain companies in the U.S. and one of top 21 in the world. Jonathan Chester supports the idea of cryptocurrency breaking the oligopoly of the banking system and bringing democracy after all. Besides that, he believes that in countries with unreliable banking systems, Bitcoin has a role to play particularly in paying and receiving wages. Jonathan Chester consulted members of the European Parliament, Dutch regulators, banks and the California Senate regarding regulation of the blockchain and cryptocurrency industry.
Silicon Valley-based payment gateway Bitwage has announced major changes to its freelance employment platform.
1459UK payment gateway company, Bitwage has won the French Tech Ticket competition, and qualifies to join one of France’s top incubators.
1047For the mainstream adoption of Bitcoin, the most important players are its users, even though collaboration with the government is essential as well.
992Bitwage has a new feature to help freelancers called Bitwage “My Employment,” or Bitwage M.E.
1831Europol has set up a working group combatting money laundering with digital currency. Experts say it’s good for the industry.
1133Bitwage announces that Brazilian contractors and freelancers can invoice without requiring their clients to sign up with them.
793Uphold has recently unveiled a new partnership with payroll payment service Bitwage, which will allow its users to receive their wages in Ether from now on. Cointelegraph talked to Jonathan Chester, Bitwage President, about this move.
842More effective transaction processes and lower charges encourages Nigerians to seek cross-border employments amidst harsh local economic conditions.
650Having been successful in the US and beyond, Bitwage Payroll for Individuals (BPI) is ripe for Europe.
744Work across borders? Work from home? There is a salary revolution coming and Bitwage and partners are driving it.
994Bitcoin and the Blockchain have looked interwoven at times, and at other times they have appeared to be mutually exclusive entities. Whether Bitcoin can be absolutely separated from the Blockchain is yet to be seen.
1094The regulation of virtual currencies by the European Council creates unduly burden on exchanges, but at the same time adds legitimacy to Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.
1036Blythe Master’s new Blockchain startup is set to receive huge investment from Wall Street in 2016. What could this really mean for the Blockchain technology and how much impact is this going to have on the Bitcoin market?
1003The founder of the largest Bitcoin payroll provider in terms of usage and volume, CCO of Bitwage, Jonathan Chester tells Cointelegraph about Bitcoin’s market problems.
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