Meet The Tennessee Mayor Who’s Ready To Embrace Bitcoin
“We can hold on to the way it’s always been done, or we can drive innovation. We have to be willing to embrace the future.”With a population of some 67,000 people, sitting about 70 miles east of Memphis, there’s nothing particularly cypherpunk about the city of Jackson, Tennessee. But Mayor Scott Conger realizes that it can benefit from embracing Bitcoin nonetheless, just like any other city in the world.“I’ve been interested in Bitcoin for a while, but it’s been from a distance as a spectator,” Conger told Bitcoin Magazine. “In the past few months, I’ve gotten more interested and I am....
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