So on a nice Christmas party time, drinks on the house I and my friend were discussing about Bitcoin, he's from the finance field and he generally knows a lot, so I thought I would use my Bitcoin knowledge to surprise him, wish I had not done it lol, so when I told him to invest in Bitcoin, I thought he would ask what it is and he replied he has one free bitcoin already. You can imagine the look, one free bitcoin here collecting satoshi's we hardly reach to a Bitcoin and he already has one. It so happens that the firm where he works decided to give bonus and they decided to give one free bitcoin to the selected staff and they have promised to give more in future that's so cool. You get salary, plus a Bitcoin perks of a employee life....
This is just the 21 century version of something that my father told me it happen on the past, my father told me that decades ago his boss used to give him as a gift silver coins, now those that remember things like that will probably give bitcoin, litecoins or monero. 
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Wow that is a good company they just give free bitcoin without any hesitation. While us we are working hard to just gain bitcoins while their employee enjoy their easy earned bitcoin. How lucky are they. I hope that i'm a employee in that company too 
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So on a nice Christmas party time, drinks on the house I and my friend were discussing about Bitcoin, he's from the finance field and he generally knows a lot, so I thought I would use my Bitcoin knowledge to surprise him, wish I had not done it lol, so when I told him to invest in Bitcoin, I thought he would ask what it is and he replied he has one free bitcoin already. You can imagine the look, one free bitcoin here collecting satoshi's we hardly reach to a Bitcoin and he already has one. It so happens that the firm where he works decided to give bonus and they decided to give one free bitcoin to the selected staff and they have promised to give more in future that's so cool. You get salary, plus a Bitcoin perks of a employee life....
Your friend is indeed very lucky.Getting btc in bonus is greatest bonus to have for this is going to appreciate in value year after year.When your friend would retire,he would have good number of btc and would be wealthy
As @OP said his friend is working in a financial company. So it is not strange give to them as a bonus 1 Btc. Maybe company has bought bitcoins long time ago when price was low. Therefore is a very good Christmas present or bonus give to them 1 btc per employee without a big cost for company. Maybe company wants to evaluate the judgement of its employees and want to see who will exchange it right now or will keep it.
On the contrary, it is strange. Bitcoins aren't that popular, most people still treat it as a novelty, a geek's collectible, hacker's money. I haven't heard of non-bitcoin companies to use it as payment for their employees. I wish OP would disclose the name of the company. So on a nice Christmas party time, drinks on the house I and my friend were discussing about Bitcoin, he's from the finance field and he generally knows a lot, so I thought I would use my Bitcoin knowledge to surprise him, wish I had not done it lol, so when I told him to invest in Bitcoin, I thought he would ask what it is and he replied he has one free bitcoin already. You can imagine the look, one free bitcoin here collecting satoshi's we hardly reach to a Bitcoin and he already has one. It so happens that the firm where he works decided to give bonus and they decided to give one free bitcoin to the selected staff and they have promised to give more in future that's so cool. You get salary, plus a Bitcoin perks of a employee life....
It is true I mean of many people who have heard of bitcoin recently and wanted to invest in it just got some money and bought it , and it is really not that hard if you do have the money for it , so you could just save some of your salary every month until you could afford it , that is what I did , you don’t have to change your job or anything. 
As @OP said his friend is working in a financial company. So it is not strange give to them as a bonus 1 Btc. Maybe company has bought bitcoins long time ago when price was low. Therefore is a very good Christmas present or bonus give to them 1 btc per employee without a big cost for company. Maybe company wants to evaluate the judgement of its employees and want to see who will exchange it right now or will keep it.
If that would not be some financial institution it might be weird. But no. Its not weird . Its very cheap way of marketing bitcoin from peer to peer. We are close the bubble guys. All confirmed.
So on a nice Christmas party time, drinks on the house I and my friend were discussing about Bitcoin, he's from the finance field and he generally knows a lot, so I thought I would use my Bitcoin knowledge to surprise him, wish I had not done it lol, so when I told him to invest in Bitcoin, I thought he would ask what it is and he replied he has one free bitcoin already. You can imagine the look, one free bitcoin here collecting satoshi's we hardly reach to a Bitcoin and he already has one. It so happens that the firm where he works decided to give bonus and they decided to give one free bitcoin to the selected staff and they have promised to give more in future that's so cool. You get salary, plus a Bitcoin perks of a employee life....
If my company offered me a bonus in bitcoin i'll be happy cause it's value obviously will increase from time to time. In other hand offering bitcoin as bounus for their costumers will cause more people know about it, i know i could purchase 1 bitcoin with my own money but it's awesome when you received your salary plus bonus in bitcoin, but it's kinda impossible due to the company that i work for is not finance related i truly believe i am the only one who used bitcoin here.So does he spend them or hold them?
Yes any company that gave around 100 employees a btc is generous according to me, this was just one of the bonus they get more as per their work. So isn't it generous and oh trust me the company value is huge more than one can even think of.
Imo, 1 btc is likely same amount with 1 month salary in rich countries or around 2 months salary in third world countries. So, if that 1 btc is his annual bonus, then that amount is not big imo, especially when you saying that company value is huge. I know your point is that company trying to introduce the bitcoin to its employees, but it doesnt mean the company is generous by doing that. So on a nice Christmas party time, drinks on the house I and my friend were discussing about Bitcoin, he's from the finance field and he generally knows a lot, so I thought I would use my Bitcoin knowledge to surprise him, wish I had not done it lol, so when I told him to invest in Bitcoin, I thought he would ask what it is and he replied he has one free bitcoin already. You can imagine the look, one free bitcoin here collecting satoshi's we hardly reach to a Bitcoin and he already has one. It so happens that the firm where he works decided to give bonus and they decided to give one free bitcoin to the selected staff and they have promised to give more in future that's so cool. You get salary, plus a Bitcoin perks of a employee life....
Wow, I understand how you feel because thats what I would even for me for the past few months in which I have been involved in Bitcoin, I have not even made a quarter of that and that is what someone is getting free, then I envy that firm and I actually will want to be in a place of such. However, it still depends on the country as well because over here the bonus will rather come in Fiat and not Btc because I am not sure any firm can take such step at this time. So on a nice Christmas party time, drinks on the house I and my friend were discussing about Bitcoin, he's from the finance field and he generally knows a lot, so I thought I would use my Bitcoin knowledge to surprise him, wish I had not done it lol, so when I told him to invest in Bitcoin, I thought he would ask what it is and he replied he has one free bitcoin already. You can imagine the look, one free bitcoin here collecting satoshi's we hardly reach to a Bitcoin and he already has one. It so happens that the firm where he works decided to give bonus and they decided to give one free bitcoin to the selected staff and they have promised to give more in future that's so cool. You get salary, plus a Bitcoin perks of a employee life....
it's ridiculous that you've expected that he's not aware about bitcoin and you thought that he'd asking what's bitcoin when you talk about it with him
and well it's really great that there's a company which giving a bitcoin as a bonus for their employee . I haven't heard some thing like this but it's really great and it would be very great if many companies will do the same that they will give you a bonus either fiat or bitcoin . 
So on a nice Christmas party time, drinks on the house I and my friend were discussing about Bitcoin, he's from the finance field and he generally knows a lot, so I thought I would use my Bitcoin knowledge to surprise him, wish I had not done it lol, so when I told him to invest in Bitcoin, I thought he would ask what it is and he replied he has one free bitcoin already. You can imagine the look, one free bitcoin here collecting satoshi's we hardly reach to a Bitcoin and he already has one. It so happens that the firm where he works decided to give bonus and they decided to give one free bitcoin to the selected staff and they have promised to give more in future that's so cool. You get salary, plus a Bitcoin perks of a employee life....
Well your friend is lucky enough because hes employed to that particular company and you are right earning whole bitcoin is really hard and you would really need to do effort before you could able to own one.You should not regret and instead you should move on and focus on saving more bitcoin and you might surpass him even he has the advantage on earning bitcoin.
Wow1 In the case that not every worker in that firm is interested or know about bitcoin it would be sound as so so idea. Butyou said that it is some financial field firm then must be all workers know about bitcoin and know what future it may have and perspective. I would liketo my firm make me such bonuses.
So on a nice Christmas party time, drinks on the house I and my friend were discussing about Bitcoin, he's from the finance field and he generally knows a lot, so I thought I would use my Bitcoin knowledge to surprise him, wish I had not done it lol, so when I told him to invest in Bitcoin, I thought he would ask what it is and he replied he has one free bitcoin already. You can imagine the look, one free bitcoin here collecting satoshi's we hardly reach to a Bitcoin and he already has one. It so happens that the firm where he works decided to give bonus and they decided to give one free bitcoin to the selected staff and they have promised to give more in future that's so cool. You get salary, plus a Bitcoin perks of a employee life....
you mean a gift of bitcoin and working for bitcoin are not different?. The company can also decide to give him $1000 or £1000 by next year that doesn't reduced services or goods exchange for penny or cent. You have to view bitcoin as money if not we would always find it difficult to explain to those ignorant in it.The company gave them the option of having Fiat or a Bitcoin. And they see it as a currency only what else would you see Bitcoin as. All took Bitcoin only and they have made a smart move. Though yet not many companies do it. But it will be fun to see if this trend picks up. 2017 could be something more for all of us and the Bitcoin in particular let's hope for the best.
So on a nice Christmas party time, drinks on the house I and my friend were discussing about Bitcoin, he's from the finance field and he generally knows a lot, so I thought I would use my Bitcoin knowledge to surprise him, wish I had not done it lol, so when I told him to invest in Bitcoin, I thought he would ask what it is and he replied he has one free bitcoin already. You can imagine the look, one free bitcoin here collecting satoshi's we hardly reach to a Bitcoin and he already has one. It so happens that the firm where he works decided to give bonus and they decided to give one free bitcoin to the selected staff and they have promised to give more in future that's so cool. You get salary, plus a Bitcoin perks of a employee life....
you mean a gift of bitcoin and working for bitcoin are not different?. The company can also decide to give him $1000 or £1000 by next year that doesn't reduced services or goods exchange for penny or cent. You have to view bitcoin as money if not we would always find it difficult to explain to those ignorant in it. 1. I think this is a fake troll story
2. It would be funny if that one bitcoin was worth than the whole company one day
2. It would be funny if that one bitcoin was worth than the whole company one day
Hmm troll? From which part sir? This is an actual event that's happened. And I am at bitcointalk.org not Facebook that people will believe anything, here each post is given lot of consideration and it's foolish and sucidial to post troll or spam posts here. If I were to make a troll trust me, it will be super good.
So on a nice Christmas party time, drinks on the house I and my friend were discussing about Bitcoin, he's from the finance field and he generally knows a lot, so I thought I would use my Bitcoin knowledge to surprise him, wish I had not done it lol, so when I told him to invest in Bitcoin, I thought he would ask what it is and he replied he has one free bitcoin already. You can imagine the look, one free bitcoin here collecting satoshi's we hardly reach to a Bitcoin and he already has one. It so happens that the firm where he works decided to give bonus and they decided to give one free bitcoin to the selected staff and they have promised to give more in future that's so cool. You get salary, plus a Bitcoin perks of a employee life....
That's a generous company, plus the company have a cool way to spread bitcoin around, giving away 1 btc is like give over $2k in the future and it's surprised come from finance sector, which means it's accept bitcoin or have a plan to adopt it?
Tell your friend to storing in safe wallet
Yes any company that gave around 100 employees a btc is generous according to me, this was just one of the bonus they get more as per their work. So isn't it generous and oh trust me the company value is huge more than one can even think of.
So on a nice Christmas party time, drinks on the house I and my friend were discussing about Bitcoin, he's from the finance field and he generally knows a lot, so I thought I would use my Bitcoin knowledge to surprise him, wish I had not done it lol, so when I told him to invest in Bitcoin, I thought he would ask what it is and he replied he has one free bitcoin already. You can imagine the look, one free bitcoin here collecting satoshi's we hardly reach to a Bitcoin and he already has one. It so happens that the firm where he works decided to give bonus and they decided to give one free bitcoin to the selected staff and they have promised to give more in future that's so cool. You get salary, plus a Bitcoin perks of a employee life....
That's a generous company, plus the company have a cool way to spread bitcoin around, giving away 1 btc is like give over $2k in the future and it's surprised come from finance sector, which means it's accept bitcoin or have a plan to adopt it?
Tell your friend to storing in safe wallet
1. I think this is a fake troll story
2. It would be funny if that one bitcoin was worth than the whole company one day
2. It would be funny if that one bitcoin was worth than the whole company one day
So on a nice Christmas party time, drinks on the house I and my friend were discussing about Bitcoin, he's from the finance field and he generally knows a lot, so I thought I would use my Bitcoin knowledge to surprise him, wish I had not done it lol, so when I told him to invest in Bitcoin, I thought he would ask what it is and he replied he has one free bitcoin already. You can imagine the look, one free bitcoin here collecting satoshi's we hardly reach to a Bitcoin and he already has one. It so happens that the firm where he works decided to give bonus and they decided to give one free bitcoin to the selected staff and they have promised to give more in future that's so cool. You get salary, plus a Bitcoin perks of a employee life....
If would be great if more employers give a bitcoin bonus.
This will definitely help with bitcoin mass adoption and awareness.
He is a lucky guy...
That was actually nice for the company to give the bonus in bitcoin. Aside from introducing the employee to btc, the employee already have the option to cash out or hold on to that coin. Had they received the bonus in fiat, it's possible they wouldn't have converted it.
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