Bitcoin Forum

Yeah, the fast food giant, Steak 'n' shake annouced that they will not only accept bitcoin payment for their services, but they will also pay their workers in bitcoin.
They also said that all bitcoin payments for their services will go into their strategic bitcoin reserve..

https://x.com/SteaknShake (https://x.com/SteaknShake)

Gradually, we are stepping into the era where companies are beginning to not only accept bitcoin payments but also pay their workers in bitcoin, this is massive, this is keeping the strategic bitcoin reserves aside.
Bitcoin will one day become the major global currency with a market cap higher than any other asset in the world, imagine a world where every company adopts bitcoin?

To be honest I do not believe this will be a 'gradual' acceptance and wage payment.  It is unrealistic to expect that all major companies around the World will one day accept Bitcoin.  And I strongly believe you should not want this.  If the World adopts Bitcoin, it means all Fiat has to die every where around the World.

As much as I wish Fiat did not exist or was at least backed by Gold as it once was, the sudden fall of Fiat most probably means wars and a really bad economical time for most people on this planet.  As you may have seen, many large companies used to accept Bitcoin from their customers and then gave up on it.  It does not always work as well as we hope.

Is the image above real, Michael Saylor?
It looks like they use Michael Saylor to attract other businesses to do the same, or maybe Saylor wants that job to accumulate more BTC since he promises to keep buying and holding.

I'd like to see McDonald's accept BTC as payment since McDonald's is an international foodservice; that's huge visibility and could attract more people to use Bitcoin.
I heard some country treats bitcoin as legal tender; some McDonald's accept BTC. I hope they can force others or sister companies to do the same.

Bitcoin does not need to topple fiat or become a global currency to grow. Being accepted as a means of payment by businesses is the most attractive form of growth for me. It's a plus if the business has a reserve and does not just convert to fiat at the point of payment building holdings and boosting value. It is an extra plus if they have the option for workers to be payed in Bitcoin. My guess is a lot of people will want to receive their salaries in fiat or convert most of the BTC to Fiat after payment, it is salaries that they need for everyday purchases after all.

I will like to know how a Bitcoin burger would taste

And it will also inevitably mean the complete centralization of Bitcoin.

Another milestone as the company start paying their workers and also receiving bitcoin as payment, this could push bitcoin in fast growing pace. If more company's are imbibing in this types of methods then I think other countries wouldn't have any choice and option than to start accepting bitcoin as others, I know that tomorrow we could still see more people delving into this type of moves but, they would regret for not taking the bold steps on time then the price could actually seems so expensive for them to start their investment just as we have people who already regretting for not taking their bold when bitcoin where somehow low and cheaper for them. I give bitcoin more 10-20 years come it would automatically turn a global big name where anyone who doesn't have could be like they are missing something special and of course bitcoin is always special and way better than any other shitcoin out there.

Well done SnS! More companies would follow (and in my opinion this could be see as a premium for chosing a specific place for work...)

I have tried dozens of times to get paid in btc in a couple of companies where I have worked. They just don't care to waste time to dig more.
Even asking like a "prize" or a bonus (including a prize in crypto or maybe just a special ntf) has already been seen as a waste of time.

There is an easy solution. Just buy with your salary and save some cash for your daily expenses ;)

You made me curious.  Why would it Centralize Bitcoin?

So far, I think Bitcoin adoption for businesses is only regional, as countries with strict ban in using cryptocurrency would not be put in the bracket even if they wanted to and adopted crypto currency as a payment option.

Bitcoin is a currency and when I see it being applauded as if it's a new technology in town, it baffles me to the point where I think that it is get adopted globally, it would be as common as regular fiat and even face the issues it currently does face.

Bitcoin was made for the minority that are concerned with privacy and decentralization. The global market cannot operate on a transaction rate of a couple thousand transactions in 10 minutes which is what a block can contain. There will need to be a centralized system where it goes through and people will actually not hold real bitcoins.

There is also the matter of loans, credit and other key features which are needed for the financial system to work.

The end result could be the government holding actual bitcoins and we will get something similar to CBDCs.

Oh wow I did not know this. Kudos to steak 'n shake, legend move.  :D

Looks like bitcoin was really good for them. I have heard from folks particularly locals, that they were declining as a business but the company has stated they have seen an increase in sales after adopting bitcoin payment. I have noticed such adoption was well received in socials as well, so this move of paying with bitcoin could add to the hype.

More power to them.  :D

The one problem is that in the US the IRS treats each transaction as a potential capital gains tax event.  It is a nightmare, but the people in favor of big government don't like everyone else to have the freedom to transact as they see fit.

Did you forget about lightning?

And I don't care about loans or credit. My 1 BTC in my cold wallet will always be my real 1 BTC. It doesn't matter what anybody else does with their fake bitcoin.

Dude... seriously? :D

Central bank and fiat currency systems broke and can not be fixed but the world will continue with fiat currency existence but in different formats from paper, polymer, digital bank figures to CBDCs, that's it. Fiat currencies will not disappear as they belong to governments and governments won't disappear globally.

Bitcoin is a good alternative and potentially helps individuals, companies to institutions store their money, wealth and enrich with time, so Bitcoin will become a more favorite choice by many entities in the future.

It's Bitcoin future but it does not mean all companies will pay staff salary in Bitcoin and not all employees will accept bitcoins as their salary payment. Companies have no power to force all employees to accept bitcoin as salary payment. It's against human rights, and people all have freedom to choose what they want to receive for salary payment.

It seems that some people haven't heard that by the end of 2025, AI is being used extensively to create images that look quite realistic. Saylor himself uses them in his X. I guess BitMaxz also had doubts because Trump went to fry potatoes at a McDonald's during his presidential campaign.


I see too many problems with that. The main one is volatility. If you only use Bitcoin for savings, fine, but if workers live from hand to mouth, as is often the case, a 20% drop in price is too risky. It's better to get paid in fiat currency and use whatever you can save to buy Bitcoin.

Yeah, i agree it's unrealistic due to regulation around the world and company stakeholder/owner stance towards Bitcoin. But nothing stop them to accept and use both Bitcoin and fiat at same time.


I think you're talking about McDonald on El Salvador. But who know if they still accept Bitcoin, since IIRC they decided to accept IMF loan by revoke Bitcoin as legal tender.

Nothing impossible, but Bitcoin to be a global currency is too good to be true. I tell you the fact that Stake n shake used square to instantly converting their LN Bitcoin to the USD. So they're not really using Bitcoin, but still fully depending on the fiat for the payment purpose.

Apart from that paying their employees with Bitcoin is good, but only if the price goes up, what if it's going down? Nevertheless, hats off for their marketing to drive that Bitcoin fomo.

I remember its their CEO who said a large bump happen on their onchain transactions after Bitcoin adoption. However, that claim has not yet proven till now.

I have been watching this the "beginning", and they have advertised it on their website. The fact that they now pay their employees with Bitcoin is the next step. Maybe there will also be a third step, Bitcoin mining. Then they can pay for the service, an mining is a litte support for the network mining and rewards for employees with Bitcoin. Sounds good, but it is a lot of work. But it is maybe successful develop in this way.

I do not think they will consider mining bitcoin since they already established a strategic bitcoin reserve where they said most of the bitcoin they get from sales will go as the company's treasury.
Aside the above, you should also do not forget the company is based in the USA and mining bitcoin in the US may not be feasible or easy maybe due to cost of electricity and or government's regulation.
My guess is, if the company will ever want to be part of bitcoin mining, they will rather go into partnership with already established mining company in (maybe) the US or any where else around the world, this is my surest bet.

I wonder if this is a "mandatory" option for steak 'n' shake employees to pay in bitcoin, or if they can also receive payment in traditional currencies? :) Since bitcoin isn't accepted everywhere, it's inevitable that bitcoin salaries will have to be converted into fiat. This incurs additional conversion costs (exchange fees). If I were an employee of steak 'n' shake, I'd like to receive a combined salary: part in bitcoin (for savings) and part in fiat (for living expenses).

In the future, if other companies start doing exactly as steak 'n' shake does en masse, savings and the presence of a strategic reserve will increase demand for bitcoin. And a salary in bitcoin will stimulate the BTC-economy to spend (if other service and product providers also accept btc payments) in this crypto currency.

It’s also interesting to know whether this is a PR stunt on the part of steak 'n' shake or a truly long-term strategy?

How will steak 'n' shake report to the tax authorities about the payment of salaries to employees in bitcoin?

Bitcoin has become a market strategy of companies. They have now offered bitcoin as a benefit and since people know how much valuable bitcoin can be I am sure many will be interested especially the young ones. The question would be how can the company maintain sustainability when bitcoin drops and they have to pay their workers the same amount.

Probably the image was AI-generated. But the picture was posted by Michael Saylor himself, and said he will work for Bitcoin. Then the SnS reposted it and said If you work at SnS, we will pay you in Bitcoin. I didn't get if they mean they will pay Saylor only if he works for them, or did they meant that they will pay all their workers in Bitcoin. Op claim that SnS is now pays their workers in Bitcoin, but I was unable to find such announcement from them. All I see is, they quoted Michael Saylor and said they will pay him in Bitcoin if he works for SnS. I think OP considered this as an announcement and thought the SnS employees are going to get paid in Bitcoin too.

The company is on an experimental phase on whether this will beneficial for them or harmful, and for sure there are many establishments that will look at them as well. If they see this as a successful one, other companies will copy it and vice-versa.

Yes, we are stepping into an era where Bitcoin is becoming more of a currency than an asset, but we can't remove the fact that there will be more people that will look at it as an asset rather than a currency just because of the fact that it's volatile, and they can make money from it simply by holding it. I wonder though if there are many customers that prefer paying thru Bitcoin when they're buying on this store, and did that made them more profitable compared in the past. Also, will they continue doing it when we enter the bear market already and the price of Bitcoin is slowly going down.

Whatever the case is, this is a perfect step towards Bitcoin being more of a currency.

Is this a popular store? I didn't know about Steak 'n' shake but as I found out, this company exists since 1934, which is amazing.

It's the best approach in business to my mind. When you are afraid to invest your money in Bitcoin but also see the potential, the best thing you can do in this case is to keep your Bitcoin income in Bitcoin, store it safely and when the time comes, either cash it out or use it for developing the business further.

I think that it's a marketing plan. By saying that you are willing to pay salary to your employees in Bitcoin, you are gaining an attention of media, forums, social networks and many crypto enthusiasts. It's a positive step but I think that if it becomes massive, there will be more regulations, which is not good.

Is SnS the same thing with McDonald's or i am not getting it right.
The other time, news about SnS accepting bitcoin as another mode of payment, now paying workers with bitcoin. Wow, thats amazing development by the team, and this got me to question something which might sounds silly,

How many workers has SnS and who is gonna cover for the transaction fee to all the workers, will be deducted from workers salary or the company cover that for free.

OMG, I thought it was real. Look at the image; it looks real that he works at McDonald's. :D
After research it was an AI-generated image; it deceived my insights.


Yeah, he got me. I was just trying to check the image, but I can't find anything from the image that looks obviously edited. That's why I end up believing that he actually works at McDonald's.

The retweet seems more like a sarcasm but maybe they make it official. I don't know why they are getting such attention from the community at all, if I am missing something, do let me know because there are many other similar giants or not giants same thing to me doing it.

By the way who would like to pay in btc for food in these giants, I would never even if where I live there is no Steak 'n' shake haha, but even if there would be any I won't pay in btc as I don't want anyone to know I have btc except I am saying here haha.

Well I don’t know about SnS since they haven’t officially disclosed how their payroll is, not from what I know with companies that pays their workers in Bitcoin, the workers are usually not the ones who covers the transaction fees or have the fees deducted from their salaries. Usually, the companies are responsible for the fees through the use of crypto payroll processors or other systems that uses very low fees like the LN. So the workers just receive their exact salaries, except of course market volatility reduces or alters the exact amount.

Yes, that will happen one day when most of the companies in the world will accept Bitcoin as a payment method but for that they first have to consider it as a reserve to make it beneficial for everyone.

The day will surely comes when Bitcoin will be the asset with highest liquidity and at that time we won't see much volatility in Bitcoin like current days.

We all get happy when we hear positive news about Bitcoin and it's good to see Steak n shake now pays its workers in Bitcoin and accept Bitcoin as a payment method.

This is another applause for the growth of bitcoin, gradually it's taking over, like will all know bitcoin is gradually taking its place in the globe either legally accepted in a country or not, time will tell, just stick to your bitcoin investment holding with your accumulation strategy, bitcoin will soon dominate other currency.

https://talkimg.com/images/2025/12/28/UzQ3vT.jpeg

From what I found on their X page, SnS started accepting bitcoin payments around May 2025. However there is no mention of paying workers in bitcoin. I think OP misunderstood their comment on Saylor’s page and thought they fastfood pays its workers bitcoins. AFAIK the handler was just being funny while trying to get engagement on X, nothing serious.

This initiative by the company is just a way to make all their workers be aware of what they are accepting (bitcoin) in their company, and they also need to receive it and be part of it, and they will also have the opportunity to go spend the same coin outside of their regular fiat. Anyways, good luck to Steak 'n' Shake. It's not been long since they started accepting the Bitcoin payment option, and now this move.

You might be a bit mistaken about that, the tweet was simply in response to Michael Saylor's statement that he "will work for Bitcoin," that SnS would pay him in Bitcoin if he worked with them. SnS itself never said that they pay their employees in Bitcoin, as all Bitcoin they receive is allocated to their SBR, as explained in the image below.

https://www.talkimg.com/images/2025/12/29/UzQpCj.png

But yeah it's great to see a company that's genuinely interested in adopting Bitcoin not just as payment, but also as their strategic reserve.