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Tampa Mayor Is Willing to Be Paid in Bitcoin

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Fri, 5/11/2021 - 16:01
Tampa Mayor Is Willing to Be Paid in Bitcoin
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The mayor of Tampa, Florida's third-most populated city, has accepted the challenge to receive her paychecks in Bitcoin.

Jane Castor made the announcement at the Florida Bitcoin & Blockchain Summit this Friday.

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She will be the fourth mayor nationwide to get paid in Bitcoin.

The trend was started by cryptocurrency-friendly Miami Mayor Francis Suarez, who tweeted on Tuesday that he would take his next salary entirely in the flagship cryptocurrency.

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He was then joined by New York Mayor-elect Eric Adams, who proclaimed that he would take his first three paychecks in Bitcoin.  

Previously, Adams said that he wanted to make the "Big Apple" a Bitcoin hub.

Scott Conger, the head of Jackson, Tennessee, became the third major to pledge his allegiance to the cryptocurrency community with a similar announcement.

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