Topic: OK. I am making this my long-term goal. (Read 721 times)

Fiverr already accept payment via Bitcoin.Yesterday I buy some hitleap minutes and work like a charm.

Bitcoin helps the Gig economy by allowing a single currency to be used to hire any contractor around the world (for work that can be done remotely). This would apply to writers, graphic designers, coders, artists, business consultants. No those people can bid on work from any country in the world and get paid via bitcoin with minimal fees and no need for currency exchange.

Is there a beitcoin-dedicated freelance jobs site? Like www.freelance.com?

My hope is that it would lower the fee. There's a $.50 processing fee on fiverr now, with no refund if the gig ordered isn't accomplished. I bet they make more money with cancelled gigs than accomplished ones. And they don't accept BTC so far. I wish they would, and their competitors as well.

The power is in micropayments.

For example for website owners who offer good content. 7000 daily unique visits only are worth 2-5 $ daily with traditional ads. But, what if half of those visitors tipped or paid say, 2000 satoshis for reading the content (which is quite reasonable). The earnings would be almost tripled at the current bitcoin price. The thing is for people to adopt bitcoin, and make tipping as simple as a facebook like. Changetip does about that, but people still have to fund their account buying bits, so is not all that useful.

Many small bits make for a great funding. Bitcoin allows that. Traditional money does not do that quite well. You cannot easily pay a cent or fractions or a cent to support the author or project you want.

Erm... Uber? Kind of already exists. They aren't accepting Bitcoin yet, that's true, but it's a small jump. I'd honestly quite happily pay someone to pick up my groceries from time to time. When in the UK supermarkets started using grocery deliveries everyone thought it was really strange, then people started using it more and more often.

I think you're perhaps not seeing the true scope and potential of smart contract usage within the Bitcoin blockchain.

As to 'full time' or not, who made up the rule that to earn a living requires you to work 8 hours a day, 5 days a week (or more in other countries.)

Why eight hours? The human male is biologically only optimized for about 3-4 hours of constant activity a day - some of my ex's would suggest less in my case - so why must people work eight hours? It doesn't have to be that way you know? It wasn't an accident they made it that high. They could have said five hours, or six.

And no, it wasn't market forces, because they controlled market forces (and still do,) it was because that was just below the number where we'd revolt. We'd feel 'happy' that we'd have a few hours every evening to ourselves, but already so tired to do nothing more than watch TV. We certainly wouldn't have enough energy to do anything like revolt.

Add into that punitive taxes, and taxes on taxes, hidden taxes, taxes by names other than tax which are taxes in all but the name 'taxes'... and so on. Soon they'll be a tax when you fart, and anyone walking behind you with a sensor that picks it up will collect an automatic fine from you that'll be passed to the government agency of farts and the fart-findee will get a small commission too - and you know what? That'll be powered by the blockchain as well.

Where was I going with this?

it's an idea that is ahead of its time, but in the future, I think decentralized anything will be highly favored.

Seoclerks, Fiverr etc already accept BTC, Doge, LTC

I highly doubt anyone would use that "decentrelized" gig websites besides bunch of tech savvy people who are already using bitcoin

Well, there is not enough room at the top for everyone hey? The "Jobhopper" generation must take over, where the traditional workforce failed? The concept is good, but it

cannot be broadly applied to every job. Part-time jobs seldom pay for a house and kids and all the expensive stuff. Bitcoin already proven that it can help sites like Fiver to

make some of this possible, but I would not like to work like this on a full time basis.     

I think the Gig economy will be huge in coming years, but I can see the powers that be just trying to keep it related to fiat. Bitcoin is perfect for these kinds of innovations, it's just annoying how governments are deliberately always trying to sideline it.

To Harry:

Dollars/pounds must go in a bank account that can be shut down or have funds otherwise confiscated. With Bitcoin you are your own account. This is just one reason. Also, in a third world economy if a person wants to work for you but the payment is what a first world country would consider tiny, then they can still do it, but with Paypal/Credit card etc, the fees are too high... higher than the price of the job might be, in fact. Not viable at all.

Bitcoin enables micro transactions, and that is a definite benefit for many countries, it should (in theory) even with third party apps, reduce the amount of money the worker pays himself for what is essentially an introduction service.

I'm sure there are many other reasons too, but I'll leave them to other people.   

What does the decentralized part of a currency have to do with the gig economy?

The dollar or the euro is pretty useful for gigs and has a lot more stable value. Thanks in advance for your reply.

build it and they will come

"The War On The Gig Economy Has Begun." Which means we're going to need a decentralized model for freelancing gigs that can't be easily shut down. Which, obviously, means Blockchain. Any thoughts on this, peeps?