Bitwage is a non-custodial crypto, stablecoin, and fiat payroll platform built to serve global teams and freelancers with flexible payment options. Bitwage's Twitter Score is 49 out of 1000 as of July 2026, ranking #21,198 (top 5%) among 531,432 tracked accounts.
Bitwage was co-founded by Jonathan Chester as CEO and John Lindsay as CTO, with the company incorporated in 2014 and its first Bitcoin payroll beta for US companies launching that same year. The platform describes itself as the first company fully dedicated to cryptocurrency payroll services, enabling workers to receive wages in Bitcoin, Ether, stablecoins such as USDC, DAI, and USDT, or local fiat currency, without Bitwage ever holding user funds. Affiliations with Gemini Exchange, The Stellar Development Foundation, and Uphold have expanded its payment infrastructure over time.
Bitwage has processed more than $400 million in payroll across a registered base of more than 90,000 workers and more than 4,500 companies, and the platform states it has maintained zero security breaches since inception. Early milestones include a 2015 International Payroll product that routed payments via Bitcoin rather than SWIFT transfers, depositing local currencies directly into worker bank accounts, and a 2016 threshold of $10 million in payroll processed. Bitwage previously participated in the Plug and Play accelerator, the Orange Fab accelerator, and the BBVA Open Talent competition, and went on to win the French Tech Ticket prize organized by the French government in 2017.
Bitwage has attracted backing from Draper Associates, Bitcoin Capital by Max Keiser, BnkToTheFuture, Stellar Foundation, Gaingels, and Overton VC. A $760,000 investor round closed in 2015, a $1.5 million raise via BnkToTheFuture was completed in October 2021, and a $3 million seed round closed at the start of 2022. Bitwage has 15,949 followers as of July 2026 and has published 5,724 posts. Bitwage has been mentioned by 174 accounts, with 422 total mentions.
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