THELOGICALINDIAN - A growing cardinal of mayors in cities beyond the US accept said they appetite to be paid in bitcoin The ambassador of Miami said he is activity to booty his absolute bacon in the cryptocurrency two added mayors will be converting their paychecks into bitcoin and the mayorelect of New York City will booty his aboriginal three paychecks in crypto
More Mayors of US Cities Ask to Be Paid in Bitcoin
A growing cardinal of mayors in U.S. cities appetite to be paid in bitcoin. At the time of writing, at atomic three mayors and one mayor-elect accept said that they will booty their abutting paychecks in bitcoin.
The aboriginal ambassador to say that he will be paid in bitcoin is the mayor of Miami, Florida, Francis Suarez, who tweeted Tuesday, “I’m activity to booty my abutting paycheck 100% in bitcoin.”
Responding to Suarez’s tweet, the mayor-elect of New York City, Eric Adams, tweeted that he will booty his aboriginal three paychecks in bitcoin back he takes appointment as ambassador of NYC.
Following Adams’ tweet, Suarez said in an account with Fox Business that he will not aloof booty his abutting paycheck in bitcoin but will booty his absolute bacon in BTC. The ambassador of Miami acclaimed that the city’s CIO “was the aboriginal agent to absolutely booty a allotment of his bacon in bitcoin,” elaborating:
“We absolutely are not activity to appoint it on anyone,” the ambassador emphasized. “It will be absolutely alternative … We appetite our advisers to accept that option, but it absolutely is not activity to be article we are activity to force on them, compassionate that a accommodation like that is a claimed accommodation they accept to accomplish if they appetite to accomplish it.”
Suarez has afresh been re-elected as the ambassador of Miami. He has been aggravating to body his burghal into the crypto capital of the world.
Two added mayors accept said that they appetite to be paid in bitcoin.
Mayor Scott Conger of the burghal of Jackson, TN, who is additionally aggravating to body his burghal into a bitcoin hub, tweeted Thursday:
Another ambassador absorbed in actuality paid in bitcoin is the ambassador of Tampa, Florida. On Friday, WTSP, a CBS-affiliated television station, appear that Tampa is aggravating to be the hub for cryptocurrency and the city’s ambassador wants to prove that she is all in.
During Friday’s Bitcoin and Blockchain Summit in Tampa, Ambassador Jane Castor floated the abstraction of accepting her paychecks in bitcoin. A agent for the mayor, Lauren Rozyla, again said the ambassador has agreed to acquire two paychecks in BTC. However, she is borderline how it will appear exactly. “It may absorb her actuality paid in approved dollars and again advance anon in bitcoin,” the agent noted.
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