Thus, there may be reason to believe that increases in variable compensation payments might not lead to the same price pressures as would increases in fixed compensation payments. In other words, increased cyclicality of compensation gains might not imply any change in the cyclicality of price increases. Finally, the spread of variable pay could lead to changes in employment patterns.
This leaves them exposed to theft, fraud and loss. The biggest example is the failure of Mt. Gox, which resulted in hundreds of millions of dollars in losses. And while these problems could happen with other forms of e-money, cryptocurrencies offer little recourse because the legal status of the players is still quite ambiguous. The list of issues doesn’t end there.