Zakat When Paid a Salary in Crypto

Short answer: Crypto wages take the same ruling as a cash salary — zakat is on savings, not income. What you spend carries no zakat; whatever survives in your wallet on your zakat day is added to your other cash and paid at 2.5% at that day's market price, once above nisab. Details: Receiving wages for halal work in any agreed medium of value is permissible in principle. What matters is the value on your annual zakat day, not at receipt; no separate hawl per payment — reckon everything on one annual date (the well-known salary-zakat method). Evidence: Quran 2:267; Sahih al-Bukhari 1454 (2.5% on money); Ibn Majah 1792 (hawl); the salary method of Shaykh Ibn Baz and Shaykh al-Uthaymin. Caution: Where crypto dealings are legally prohibited or restricted, a Muslim should not violate the law — seek lawful alternatives; yet zakat on wealth already owned remains obligatory in all cases. For complex individual cases, consult a qualified scholar.