{"id":34217,"date":"2020-12-30T14:20:44","date_gmt":"2020-12-30T12:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=34217"},"modified":"2025-08-28T17:38:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T14:38:20","slug":"miami-authorities-weigh-allocating-1-of-city-budget-to-bitcoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/miami-authorities-weigh-allocating-1-of-city-budget-to-bitcoin\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami authorities weigh allocating 1% of city budget to Bitcoin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Miami Mayor Francis Suarez said he was &#8220;open to exploring&#8221; the possibility of investing 1% of the city&#8217;s budget reserves in Bitcoin.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The statement followed a post by Morgan Creek Digital co-founder Anthony Pompliano, who had previously urged users to retweet his message if they would move to Miami should part of the treasury be diverted into the first cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Retweet this if you would move to Miami if Mayor <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FrancisSuarez?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@FrancisSuarez<\/a> put 1% of the city\u2019s treasury reserves in Bitcoin.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Pomp \ud83c\udf2a (@APompliano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/APompliano\/status\/1343940379176030208?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 29, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The post racked up around 1.2 thousand retweets and drew Suarez\u2019s attention, who welcomed the idea.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Definitely open to exploring it.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mayor Francis Suarez (@FrancisSuarez) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FrancisSuarez\/status\/1343940680817766401?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 29, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Back in 2020, the Mayor of Miami<a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/miami-mayor-calls-bitcoin-a-stable-investment-in-2020\"> described Bitcoin as a stable investment<\/a> and said he planned to place South Florida at the forefront of crypto-friendly legislation.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to the ForkLog channel on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCC9FnXTC8_ENzaNSO5cHQ6g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"> YouTube<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miami Mayor Francis Suarez said he was &#8220;open to exploring&#8221; the possibility of investing 1% of the city\u2019s budget reserves in Bitcoin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18,1138,26],"class_list":["post-34217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bitcoin","tag-opinions","tag-usa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"27","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34219,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34217\/revisions\/34219"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}