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I do freelance work and I was considering offering my customers the option of paying me in Bitcoin. Given that bills are usually paid in 2 - 4 weeks after sending them, and the exchange is still quite volatile, how could I do this? Can I do anything more than just write on the bill "please contact me to arrange a payment in Bitcoin" ? Has anyone done this successfully?
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In practice your invoice fee should be cited in the most stable and liquid of the currencies you support. Typically your national currency since you live with it anyway.
The contract would then stipulate that if the client pays in another currency that the amount that the client must pay is the going rate to sell that currency back into the primary contractual currency at the time of payment.
The client, if they don't have enough bitcoins at time of payment, may care more about the buy/bid exchange rate. But you care much more about the value of your work in the most stable and liquid currency, hence the sell/ask exchange rate at time of payment.
For example:
This should completely resolve currency volatility between the time of invoice and payment. I'm sure most modern bitcoin payment gateways auto-convert currency exchange rates, so the logistical burden to a client should be minor.
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The contract language to use is along the lines of:
$N converted to bitcoins using the prevailing exchange rate [obtained from source, such as 24 hour weighted average] on the date that payment is made.
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Blockonomics recently introduced peer to peer invoices which are perfect for freelancers/contractors to maintain security/privacy. You can invoice in any currency and it would show BTC converted according to rate at the time the payer opens the invoice.
