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Miami Mayor Suarez to Take Next Paycheck in Bitcoin
Francis Suarez, who is up for re-election Tuesday, seemed ready to use Strike’s dollar-to-bitcoin conversion service.
Miami Mayor Francis Suarez pledged Tuesday to take his next paycheck entirely in bitcoin.
- In a tweet, the pro-crypto mayor positioned himself as one of the only U.S. political leaders taking their salary in bitcoin.
- The mayor of the city of Miami earns a salary of $187,500, according to the Miami Herald.
- Suarez, who is up for re-election Tuesday, appeared ready to use fintech Strike’s dollar-to-bitcoin conversion service.
- His innovation deputy, Mike Sarasti, tweeted that he’d sent the mayor a Strike sign-up link after successfully cashing some of his most recent paycheck in bitcoin through the service.
I’m going to take my next paycheck 100% in bitcoin…problem solved! @Sarasti can you help? https://t.co/v4YdPZ0tYc
— Mayor Francis Suarez (@FrancisSuarez) November 2, 2021
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Danny Nelson
Danny is CoinDesk's managing editor for Data & Tokens. He formerly ran investigations for the Tufts Daily. At CoinDesk, his beats include (but are not limited to): federal policy, regulation, securities law, exchanges, the Solana ecosystem, smart money doing dumb things, dumb money doing smart things and tungsten cubes. He owns BTC, ETH and SOL tokens, as well as the LinksDAO NFT.
