Francis Suarez, who has served as the mayor of Miami since 2017, has said he’s going to take his next paycheck in .

Suarez wrote this Tuesday tweet (NYSE:). He wanted to become the United States’ first lawmaker of the federal or state level to accept Bitcoin as a part of his income.BTC( Public records Show the Miami mayor’s salary was $97,000 annually between 2016 and 2017, meaning he would receive a monthly paycheck of more than $8,000 or 0.13 BTC at a price of $63,404, assuming residents did not vote to increase his compensation for public service. Suarez claimed that he would. Choose preferInstead of having the local government convert his fiat salary into crypto, you can use apps like Bitwage or Strike instead.