Topic: Why the cryptocurrencies platforms for freelancers are still not adopted? (Read 193 times)

Personally, I like so much the functions as well as the features of Cryptogrind, where the Freelancers can be paid with several kind of cryptocurrencies instead of just accepting BTC, furthermore the freelancers are paid through an escrow system which benefit both parties, just like Localbtc and also Blocklancer has really good features as well as their own token.

But the problem here is the equilibrium between Offer and Demand, as there are many freelancers and only few clients and this is very evident just by entering in one of these platforms that a big amount of the offered services have never been sold at least once. So if there are not an active amount of customers the freelancers will lose the interest in these platforms, because of the scarcity of people enable to buy their services.

Therefore, I think that some of the potential clients are afraid of volatility that could result in overprices for them, while others have a low degree of confidence with cryptocurrencies or by the lack of knowledge about them and finally the cryptocurrencies ban in countries with a wide number of freelancers like India has also affected the growing of these platforms. Then, I believe that they need to motivate the clients of the traditional freelance platforms to start using their services paying with crypto, by giving attractive offers and extra benefits in order to acquire new costumers.

Yup, the UI being worse on most cryptocurrency freelancing platforms is definitely a big part to why people don't use such platforms. Heck, the first thing I see on the XBTFreelancer site is a big video unavailable notice as one of the videos on the front page of the website got copyright struck on YouTube.

Platforms like Fiverr are also usually more established than most crypto freelancing sites, and some people feel more secure using these more established services, despite the fact that they can have relatively high fees. Some people are also turned away by the volatility of cryptocurrency.

In addition to this, like it or not, freelance sites like Fiverr are receiving significantly more gig buyers and sellers compared to bitcoin freelance platforms. Fiverr has a significantly better UI/UX too(in my opinion, at least), compared to sites like XBTFreelancer, which I think is the best right now compared to others that also accepts crypto.

I think it's more related to seasonality. Last year during the bull run literally everyone that could clap in his hands was looking for a job that paid in crypto, which as we see now, there simply isn't much demand left. Crypto startups are firing people, news outlets reduced their writers but force their existing ones to push more content for the same pay, etc.

People love crypto when it goes up, revert back to fiat on the way down and during stagnant market phases.

There certainly are platforms paying in crypto and everything but they're highly centralized. I've personally signed up for a couple of them but they just don't seem to give freelancers any special advantage over the services section on the forum.
 
They're reliable. The good freelancers don't have any problems getting jobs from bitcointalk. People like to be anonymous and these bitcoin-based freelancing platforms don't appreciate anonymity which is a huge turn-off.

Maybe they don't like bitcoin?

Many freelancers knows cryptocurrencies but many of them too aren't using with crypto's. They've just heard it but they don't actually use it. They feel more secured and protected if the transaction will go through the bank unlike in crypto's, it's recorded on the blockchain network and they don't know who sent them money unless their employer will tell them.

They have trust issues with crypto's and those freelancers who are using sites like upwork.com gives them guarantee that the project is funded well by the employer as long as the money is already escrowed by the platform. And take note that transaction is through bank transfer.

Simple.

Not all people who do work on these freelancing sites doesn't have much idea on whats crypto is all about and only a few will really jump into crypto-based freelancing
sites because they do know on whats the advantage of it but overall majority online workers will always preferred the traditional ways even they do know the flaws.

I’m new as a freelancer and have been comparing what is the best platform to start, but I don’t understand why people prefer platforms with bank account association, instead of platforms paying in crypto or Bitcoin?.
 
Could you help me to understand, since I have seen many comments describing recurrent problems and high commissions in platforms paying by bank transfer like upwork or fiverr.

Otherwise, I have heard that the commissions and even the payment guarantees are better in platforms paying in crypto just like cryptogrind or xbtfreelancer. Then my question is why the freelancers still prefer the bank account platforms if they present problems very constantly in comparison with the cryptocurrencies platforms for freelancers?