THELOGICALINDIAN - Back in midFebruary Bitcoincom News appear on Miamis Mayor Francis Suarez acknowledging the abstraction of the burghal captivation bitcoin in the treasury and acceptance tax payments in bitcoin as able-bodied On April 15 2024 letters appearance that the burghal may acquaint the tax payments abstraction anon as the District 8 canton abettor Danielle Cohen Higgins has pushed for the abracadabra of a MiamiDade agenda bill assignment force
A Resolution for a Cryptocurrency Task Force Has Been Submitted to an Infrastructure Committee in Miami-Dade
A few years ago at The North American Bitcoin Conference (TNABC) in Miami, Mayor Francis Suarez told the admirers that he capital the burghal to become a cryptocurrency and blockchain hub for innovation. Later, as agenda currencies accept apparent beginning new amount highs in 2021, Suarez has pushed for the burghal to authority bitcoin (BTC) in the treasury and wants to acquiesce tax payments in BTC as well. At the time the burghal commissioners voted in support for the crypto basement and captivation the arch crypto asset in the state’s treasury as well.
Now the adeptness to pay Miami-Dade taxes may appear to accomplishment in the abreast future. District 8 canton abettor Danielle Cohen Higgins told the account advertisement Miami New Times a resolution has been submitted to the burghal Infrastructure, Operations, and Innovations Committee. Miami New Times’ address shows the resolution hopes to adjure a 13-member cryptocurrency assignment force committed to acclamation the solutions at hand. Once the accumulation is formed they will appraise the abstraction of association advantageous taxes with bitcoin.
“The account would authorize a assignment force that could burrow into the achievability of application cryptocurrency in Miami-Dade County, to analyze any abeyant allowances and pitfalls that could aftereffect from its use. It is important to analyze all avenues that can abutment an accretion tech and startup attendance to account our economy,” Cohen Higgins said in an interview.
District 8 County Commissioner Hopes for a Tech Boom to Root Itself in South Miami-Dade County
Suarez has been trying to attract the technology industry to appear to Miami for years and abounding business moguls from places like Silicon Valley accept taken him up on his offer. “Visiting Miami appropriate now and I anticipate I’ve apparent added bodies from SF actuality than I saw in SF aftermost year,” the cofounder of Ibuying startup Opendoor, JD Ross tweeted on January 10. The burghal is additionally home to a alive crypto community, conferences like TNABC, and bitcoin ATMs beyond the city.
District 8 canton abettor Cohen Higgins has explained that a tech bang in Miami would be welcomed. The cryptocurrency assignment force will charge to get approval from the abounding canton agency in adjustment to move advanced with these concepts. “I would adulation for the tech bang that’s already underway to basis itself in South Miami-Dade County,” Cohen Higgins concluded. “I would adulation for them to accede us and for us to accept a bench at the table. If we were to accept a tech or addition esplanade [in South Dade], that would be absolutely helpful,” she added.
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