The difference is that I skip 1 out of 3 steps and a whole bunch of fees and taxes
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How are you skipping taxes? If you are getting paid, you have to pay income tax. Doesn't matter what currency you get paid in.
Tax payment is established by laws. Depending a big number of factors, even with the same income the taxes you pay can be different, all of them within the same laws. If you want to live using bitcoin and you gain directly bitcoin you can avoid paying many taxes that are related to fiat money (again, everything within the law).
That said, with my original reply I was not intending to open a discussion about fiscality and how to manage your money within the extremely messy and confusin fiscal environment of developed countries. I was just trying to explain why, in my case, I prefer getting paid in bitcoins rather than exchange fiat for them.