Freelancing with cryptocurrency payment, is it possible?

Question

Freelance

Good afternoon,
I live in the Crimea (I have a Crimean residence permit) so I can’t use Paypal \ Payoneer.
If anyone knows anything about paying freelancers (designers/artists - on exchanges or privately) with cryptocurrencies, can you please share the information?

*If this is not common yet, can you at least try to negotiate this payment method with long-term clients? (who need to complete several orders) or a useless undertaking? (it’s not difficult on their part? they can buy, say, Ethereum by paying with Paypal and then transfer Ethereum - this is a simple process, right? or is everything not so simple there?). I understand that these are unnecessary troubles, and even if the cost of services is lowered, there will be much fewer people ready for this than with regular transactions with Paypal payment, but still ...

Answer 1

Several times I met offers to pay with cryptocurrency, if I remember correctly, in the wake of the rise of bitcoin, some companies from Silicon Valley practiced this. Surely, even now there are many different startups ready to work with cryptocurrency.
Now, as far as I’ve read, cryptocurrencies are often used in illegal business, so I think it’s not superfluous to warn that it’s worth checking who you work for in this case, so as not to fall under the distribution (yes, you can participate in absolutely legal operations, but there will still be connection with crime). As a simple example - the same casinos.
And one more question - I don’t follow the topic very much, but are the cryptocurrencies common in the world officially allowed in the Russian Federation?

Answer 2

Really - yes, legally - no (calculation in crypto-currencies as a special case of digital money is prohibited in Russia and Ukraine), but the very existence (doing business in the international sphere + -) is already illegal in Crimea, so "taking your head off your hair is not crying.
If you want to stay more or less in the law, write rubles in the contract, and take cryptocurrencies into your hands (this can also be written in the contract, but you won’t be protected by the state, so there’s no point), it will be something in the form of barter, but it’s legal to sell cryptocurrencies and it will not work to get rubles to pay taxes with them, the legislation lags behind itself.
ps Oddly enough, owning cryptocurrencies is not prohibited, but by law everyone is required to report their digital assets (those who report in the future will lose them completely or partially will be stupidly taken away)

Answer 3

Yes, they are constantly trying to pay with crypto, there is no problem with this now

Answer 4

paypal generally ceased to be friends with Russia
from international ones, there is also Perfect Money, Payeer, Skrill, well, good old credit cards)

Answer 5

Generally no problem. When Bitcoin was 3,000 people paid a salary of 0.29 BTC
Send it wherever you want, change it for whatever you want.