{"id":41319,"date":"2021-04-23T18:17:57","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T15:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=41319"},"modified":"2025-08-30T18:16:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T15:16:14","slug":"us-city-authorities-eye-bitcoin-mining-and-salaries-paid-in-bitcoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/us-city-authorities-eye-bitcoin-mining-and-salaries-paid-in-bitcoin\/","title":{"rendered":"US city authorities eye Bitcoin mining and salaries paid in Bitcoin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Jackson city administration in Tennessee will study the potential of the first cryptocurrency for its integration into the financial system. This was stated by Mayor Scott Conger [Scott Conger].<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">What does the future of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/cryptocurrency?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#cryptocurrency<\/a> look like for the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CityofJacksonTN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CityofJacksonTN<\/a> ?<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude80We\u2019re exploring payroll conversions for our employees. <\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude80Even more exciting \u2014 we\u2019re seriously exploring mining <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Bitcoin?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Bitcoin<\/a>  to add to our balance sheet.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BTC?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BTC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LTC?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#LTC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ETH?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ETH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mayor Scott Conger (@MayorConger) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MayorConger\/status\/1384691758936825857?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 21, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>According to him, authorities will consider paying public servants\u2019 salaries in digital gold.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cEven more exciting \u2014 we are seriously exploring Bitcoin mining to add to our balance,\u201d noted Conger.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Earlier, Miami Mayor Francis Su\u00e1rez spoke about plans to allow public servants <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/miami-mayor-aims-to-allow-salaries-to-be-paid-in-bitcoin\">to receive payments in the first cryptocurrency<\/a>. He <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/miami-authorities-weigh-allocating-1-of-city-budget-to-bitcoin\">did not rule out<\/a> the transfer of 1% of the city budget into Bitcoin.<\/p>\n<p>Later, city authorities voted <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/miami-authorities-to-study-integrating-bitcoin-into-the-citys-financial-system\">to explore options<\/a> for integrating digital gold into municipal infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>In April 2021, it was reported that the NBA&#8217;s Sacramento Kings planned to offer the team and staff the ability to receive <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/media-nba-club-to-offer-salary-payments-in-bitcoin\">salaries in Bitcoin<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Jackson city administration in Tennessee will study the potential of the first cryptocurrency for its integration into the financial system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41320,"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":[18,26],"class_list":["post-41319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bitcoin","tag-usa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"15","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41319","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=41319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41321,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41319\/revisions\/41321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}