<story><title>Expanding access to the future of work with crypto payouts</title><url>https://stripe.com/newsroom/stories/braintrust-crypto-payouts</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>boh</author><text>As companies continually erode employee benefits and aggressively seek out ever cheaper labor, we have to continually be reminded how innovative and great this &amp;quot;massive shift enabled in large part by new technology&amp;quot; is going to be. Now you&amp;#x27;re going to get paid in unregulated tokens, isn&amp;#x27;t that amazing!&lt;p&gt;And guess what? Not using actual money also let&amp;#x27;s them access &amp;quot;millions of talented freelancers live in countries where it’s hard, if not impossible, to open a local bank account&amp;quot;. That&amp;#x27;s great because those workers also tend to live in countries with lax or non existent labor laws. These new inroads in exploitation is just another great win for  innovation! How bright our future gets every day!</text></comment>
<story><title>Expanding access to the future of work with crypto payouts</title><url>https://stripe.com/newsroom/stories/braintrust-crypto-payouts</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gitgud</author><text>To be specific they&amp;#x27;re allowing transfer to the USDC token, which is a &amp;quot;stable coin&amp;quot; pegged to the USD currency and owned by coin base.&lt;p&gt;This is a fairly low risk move by Stripe, as USDC is more open and trusted than USDT (Tether)</text></comment>