Miami To Give Bitcoin To Its Citizens, Allow Usage For Payments
The city's mayor Francis Suarez shared his plans to create a Bitcoin ecosystem in Miami and allow city employees to get paid in BTC.The city of Miami will soon start giving bitcoin to its citizens, its mayor Francis Suarez announced on a CoinDesk TV interview Thursday morning. When asked if he envisioned bitcoin being used as cash, including as a tax payment method, Suarez confidently confirmed such intentions."I do see very quickly a world where the Satoshi system is what is used to make payments; we need to make that leap," the mayor said. "We need people to understand that bitcoin is....
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