More and more US mayors want to be paid in Bitcoin-News
More and more US mayors want to be paid in Bitcoin-News
A growing number of mayors in cities in the USA has stated that they would like to be paid for with Bitcoin. The Mayor of Miami said that he would get his entire salary in cryptocurrency, two other mayors will convert their salary checks into Bitcoin and the elected mayor of New York City will take his first three salary checks in Krypto.
more mayor of US cities require a payment in Bitcoin
More and more mayors in US cities want to be paid for with Bitcoin. At the time of writing, at least three mayors and a elected mayor said that they will accept their next salary checks in Bitcoin.
The first mayor to say that he is paid in Bitcoin is the ,,, Florida, Francis Suarez, who tweeted on Tuesday: "I will take my next salary check 100% in Bitcoin."
as a response to Suarez 'Tweet, the elected mayor of New York City , Eric Adams, tweeted that when he took office as mayor of NYC, he will accept his first three salary checks in Bitcoin.
after Adams' Tweet said Suarez in an interview with Fox Business that he will not only accept his next salary check in Bitcoin, but will also move in his entire salary btc . The Mayor of Miami found that the city of the city was "the first employee who actually took a percentage of his salary in Bitcoin" and stated:
I will become an employee number two ... I will accept 100 % of my salary in Bitcoin.
"We will certainly not force it up," emphasized the mayor. "It will be completely optional ... We want our employees to have this option, but it will certainly not be anything we will force them up because we understand that such a decision is a personal decision that you have to make if you want." to make it. ”
Suarez was recently re -elected as mayor of Miami. He tried to go to the Kryptokapital of the world.
Two other mayors have declared that they want to be paid with Bitcoin.
Mayor Scott Conger of the City of Jackson, TN, who also tries to build his city Bitcoin hub , tweeted on Thursday:
While the state law of the city of Jackson, TN, prohibits paying in Bitcoin, I will follow the example [Miami Mayor] Francis Suárez & [NYC Mayor-Elect] Eric Adams and immediately change my next salary in bitcoin.
Another mayor who is interested in being paid in Bitcoin is the mayor of Tampa, Florida. On Friday, WSP, a television station connected to CBS, reported that Tampa is trying to be the hub for cryptocurrencies, and the city's mayor wants to prove that it is all-in.
During the Bitcoin and Blockchain summit on Friday in Tampa, Mayor Jane Castor raised the idea of receiving her salary checks in Bitcoin. A spokeswoman for the mayor, Lauren Rozyla, then said that the mayor had agreed to assume two salary checks btc . However, she is not sure how it will happen. "It may be that it is paid in regular dollars and then invested immediately in Bitcoin," noted the speaker.
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