A growing number of U.S. mayors want to pay in bitcoin
Increasing mayors of cities across the United States say they want to pay with Bitcoin. Mayor Miami said he would receive the full salary in cryptocurrency, the other two mayors would convert the paycheck to Bitcoin, and the elected mayor of New York City would receive the first three salaries in cryptocurrency. I did.
Mayors of more US cities demand Bitcoin payments.
More and more mayors in US cities want to pay with Bitcoin. At the time of writing, at least three mayors and one mayor-elect say they will receive their next salary in Bitcoin.
The first mayor to say that he would be paid in Bitcoin was Francis Suarez,
Mayor of Miami,
Florida, who tweeted on Tuesday that he would receive 100% of his next salary in Bitcoin.
In response to Suarez's tweet, New York City Mayor-elect Eric Adams tweeted that he would receive the first three salaries in Bitcoin when he became
Mayor of New York.
Following Adams' tweet, Suarez said in an interview with Fox Business that he would not only take his next salary in bitcoin but his entire salary in BTC. The mayor of Miami said that the city's CIO was "the first employee to actually take a cent of his salary in bitcoin," elaborating:
"We're certainly not going to impose this on anyone," Meyer insisted. "It would be completely optional ... we want our employees to have that option, but it's certainly not going to be something that we're going to impose on them, understanding that kind of The decision is a personal decision they have to make if they want to make it."
Suarez has recently been re-elected as the mayor of Miami. He is trying to make his city the crypto capital of the world.
The other two mayors stated that they would like to be paid in Bitcoin.
The Mayor of Jackson, Tennessee, Scott Conger wrote on Twitter on Thursday:
Another mayor interested in bitcoin payments is the mayor of Tampa, Florida. On Friday, CBS-affiliated television station WTSP reported that Tampa is trying to become the center of cryptocurrency, and the mayor of the city wants to prove that she is going all out.
At the Bitcoin and Blockchain Summit held in Tampa on Friday, Mayor Jane Castor proposed the idea of using Bitcoin to receive a salary. The mayor’s spokesperson Lauren Rozyla (Lauren Rozyla) subsequently stated that the mayor has agreed to accept two salaries from BTC. However, she is not sure how this will happen. The spokesperson pointed out: "This may involve her paying in ordinary U.S. dollars and then investing in Bitcoin immediately."