Surprisingly, yes. The OsmAnd app developers created a program called OSM BTC that pays OSM contributors for their contributions in Bitcoin on a monthly basis, with the funds coming from 50% of the proceeds of the app's OsmAnd Live subscriptions:

- Program: https://osmbtc.org

- Announcement: https://osmand.net/blog/osm-live

For which part?

Main complaint in article is that major companies should employ people from OSM community. But inability to transfer money is not something blocking Microsoft or FB here.

No.

Solution still looking for problems to solve?