Suarez: You know people ask me the same thing about bitcoin, the fact that it's lost more than 50% of its value, but that doesn't change my feelings about the fundamental technology. For me, what was interesting about MiamiCoin was the idea that
The Bitcoin (BTC) community is at it again, dismantling FUD and orange-pilling officials in far-flung destinations. At the foot of Lake Atitlán, a bucolic yet impoverished region of Guatemala, a Bitcoin project has managed to get a miner into the hands of the local
The state administration will convert crypto payments immediately to Brazilian reais, Mayor Eduardo Paes added. Source link
Digital payment platform Paxful has partnered with nonprofit organization Built With Bitcoin Foundation and Miami Mayor Francis Suarez to advance a new education initiative centered around Bitcoin (BTC) and financial literacy. The initiative will disburse free tickets to the Bitcoin 2022 conference to local
Mayor Steve Adler of Austin, Texas, has fully embraced the discovery of what blockchain technology and crypto payments can bring to his city by proposing two new initiatives.The first initiative aims to ensure that Texas’s fourth-largest city promotes the benefits of blockchain technologies
Upon the announcement that Francis Suarez, mayor of the city of Miami, took a $5.25 million disbursement from the MiamiCoin wallet, Cointelegraph inquired about how the city will use these funds.I’m so excited to announce that the @CityofMiami has received its first-ever disbursement
Eduardo Paes, mayor of Brazilian city Rio de Janeiro, wants to allocate 1% of the city’s treasury into Bitcoin (BTC), Cointelegraph Brazil reported.Paes reportedly announced plans for “Crypto Rio,” or turning the city into a cryptocurrency hub during Rio Innovation Week on Thursday,
Newly sworn-in New York City Mayor Eric Adams is already using his influence to speak publicly about buying the recent Bitcoin dip.In a Thursday interview with CNBC’s Squawk Box, Adams said he had not yet received his first paycheck as the mayor of
The long-standing mayor of Miami Francis Suarez has now announced plans to take a part of his 401(k) payout in Bitcoin (BTC) just a month after he started receiving salary in BTC. Soon after becoming the first United States lawmaker to accept a part
We’ve had many big successes this year, from having our first employee to be paid in bitcoin to being the first mayor in the U.S. to accept their paycheck in bitcoin – but I think the biggest success of all has been staking
