Interesting thread mate, I read the article and it looks pretty interesting. There was an article some time ago which also showcases the Ukraine president who was a huge supporter of crypto-currencies as well.
It's great to have politicians support the Bitcoin adoption, but besides that what we really need are big companies to lead by example. If I were the CEO of a big company and would really care about Bitcoin I'd start by paying at least a percent of my employees salaries in BTC. Can you imagine what effect could that have on the market price? I've made some research and if Apple would pay 10% of its employees in Bitcoin that would result in 1.6 billion dollars poured into the BTC market cap per year. But what if they would pay 50%, or even 100% in BTC & other companies will follow their example. I think you can once more time see the potential of Bitcoin as a currency and store-of-value.
I don't know if this is legally allowed in the United States, but your comment certainly applies in Japan. Over there, large companies should start doing that, but those companies are too conservative even with a law backing it. Only the small, younger start ups and crypto related business enthusiasts have done it.
For most of the world, first they need to address the legality barrier, because the first thing the employer will say, is that its illegal to do so. If the State doesn't even acknowledge bitcoin formally, someone getting paid in that could claim they are not getting any payment at all and sue over slavery and whatnot.
So after you get the law and regulation in place, it comes the really hard part to convince the employers to do so. It means an extra complexity to their management, which they would hardly see any justification spending money to accommodate for that.
I don't think you can pay out BTC in someone's salary, unless they want to as well. But instead of bonuses paid in fiat, ones that are paid in bitcoin could possibly work since it's not breaking the contract.
There's been a bunch of start-ups (especially ones that work in crypto) that pay their entire staff in crypto, but since they mention it at the start, and the employees accept, it's fine for them to do so.
