{"id":206486,"date":"2026-07-30T15:28:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T15:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=206486"},"modified":"2026-07-30T15:28:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T15:28:19","slug":"nyse-listed-ai-company-taps-lightning-network-to-pay-employees-in-bitcoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=206486","title":{"rendered":"NYSE-Listed AI Company Taps Lightning Network to Pay Employees In Bitcoin"},"content":{"rendered":"

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NYSE-Listed AI Company Taps Lightning Network to Pay Employees In Bitcoin<\/a><\/p>\n

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Publicly traded AI operating system Vida Global (NYSE American: VIDA) has said it has started paying employees in Bitcoin using the Lightning network<\/a> \u2014 but in a way where the company does not have the leading crypto on its balance sheet.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Austin, Texas-based company said<\/a> Thursday that after a worker in Argentina asked to be paid in Bitcoin, the firm tapped Bitcoin infrastructure company Voltage to make the transaction.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But the company is not keeping Bitcoin on its books: it simply sends the cash amount via Voltage\u2019s platform, the employees receive payment in Bitcoin, and Vida\u2019s balance sheet remains in dollars.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cVida has a global team, including team members in Argentina who prefer to be paid in Bitcoin because of challenges with their local currency,\u201d Vida CEO Lyle Pratt said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cVoltage facilitates the Bitcoin payments, and we settle the balance in U.S. dollars at the end of the month, just like a standard vendor invoice. It has made offering Bitcoin payments remarkably simple for both our team and our finance operations.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pratt added the setup meets employee needs without adding crypto complexity to accounting.<\/p>\n

Voltage CEO Graham Krizek said it was solving a mismatch between \u201cglobal by default\u201d AI companies and payment rails that haven\u2019t kept up.<\/p>\n

\u201cTheir team members get paid in seconds in the money they actually want, and their finance team never touches crypto,\u201d he said. \u201cWhen a public company runs part of its team compensation on Bitcoin rails and the books stay boring, that\u2019s the point.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lightning is another network that skirts transactions around the main chain, cutting costs and increasing speed \u2014 originally designed so people could use Bitcoin for daily purchases.<\/p>\n

Bitcoin maxis like Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey have since integrated the network into their businesses, payments platform, Cash App and his PoS terminals, Square.<\/p>\n

This post NYSE-Listed AI Company Taps Lightning Network to Pay Employees In Bitcoin<\/a> first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine<\/a> and is written by Mathew Di Salvo<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bitcoin Magazine NYSE-Listed AI Company Taps Lightning Network to Pay Employees In Bitcoin Publicly traded AI operating system Vida Global (NYSE American: VIDA) has said it has started paying employees in Bitcoin using the Lightning network \u2014 but in a way where the company does not have the leading crypto on its balance sheet.\u00a0 The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":206487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-discovery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206486"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=206486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/206487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=206486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=206486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=206486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}