{"id":54482,"date":"2021-12-10T16:18:38","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T14:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=54482"},"modified":"2025-09-03T20:39:48","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T17:39:48","slug":"florida-to-allow-payment-of-state-fees-in-cryptocurrency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/florida-to-allow-payment-of-state-fees-in-cryptocurrency\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida to allow payment of state fees in cryptocurrency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Governor Ron DeSantis intends to give businesses the option to use cryptocurrencies to pay state fees. This follows from the <a href=\\\"http:\/\/www.freedomfirstbudget.com\/content\/Current\/Reports\/BudgetHighlights.pdf\\\">recommendations<\/a> for the state&#8217;s budget for the 2022\/2023 fiscal year.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis proposed allocating $200,000 to the Department of Financial Services to implement crypto payments directly by the department.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cFlorida encourages cryptocurrencies as a means of commerce and to promote the state&#8217;s appeal to business and economic growth,\u201d the document says.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In the subsection &#8220;Creating a crypto-friendly Florida,&#8221; the governor also provided for funding for blockchain programs totaling $500,000.<\/p>\n<p>These funds are to be split evenly between two pilot projects: vehicle registration and transaction authentication <span data-descr=\"the state Medicaid program for those in need\" class=\"old_tooltip\">Medicaid<\/span> to prevent potential fraud.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Miami Mayor Francis Suarez said he intended to allow government employees <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/miami-mayor-aims-to-allow-salaries-to-be-paid-in-bitcoin\">to receive a salary in Bitcoin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, he announced the formation of a team to develop a plan for <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/miami-authorities-to-form-task-force-to-integrate-into-the-cryptocurrency-industry\">greater involvement of the city in the cryptocurrency industry<\/a>, and the administration voted to study options <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/miami-authorities-to-study-integrating-bitcoin-into-the-citys-financial-system\">to integrate Bitcoin into municipal infrastructure<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities in Miami-Dade County have formed a group to study the possibility <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/miami-dade-authorities-weigh-paying-taxes-in-bitcoin\">of paying taxes in digital assets<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on <a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ForkLog\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener\\\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Governor Ron DeSantis intends to give businesses the option to use cryptocurrencies to pay state fees. This is according to the recommendations he presented for the state&#8217;s budget for the 2022\/2023 fiscal year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54483,"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":[26],"class_list":["post-54482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-usa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"36","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54482","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=54482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54484,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54482\/revisions\/54484"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}