New York Mayor-elect Eric Adams revealed on Twitter on Friday he intends to take his starting time three paychecks in Bitcoin (BTC). Adams as well doubled downwardly on his plans to make New York the "center of the cryptocurrency manufacture" in one case he takes function in January.

The clear statement of political support for cryptocurrency came in response to an before tweet by Bitcoin podcaster Anthony Pompliano:

"Who is going to exist the kickoff American political leader to accept their salary in bitcoin?"

Miami Mayor Francis Suarez, who won reelection before this calendar week, replied to the tweet, saying that he plans to take his next paycheck in Bitcoin.

This prompted Adams to respond by one-upping his colleague:

"In New York we e'er go large, so I'thousand going to have my commencement THREE paychecks in Bitcoin when I go mayor."

The race to become the starting time politician in the United states of america to accept their bacon in crypto is indicative of the friendly rivalry between New York and Miami to go the leading crypto hub in America. After he won the Democratic nomination for mayor in June, Adams promised in his victory speech that New York would go the "center of Bitcoins."

"Miami, yous had your run," he said at the fourth dimension.

In an interview with Bloomberg radio on Wednesday, Adams vowed to "wait at what'southward preventing the growth of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency in our city." He also indicated plans to follow Suarez's footsteps with the creation of MiamiCoin.

In that scheme, individuals employ Stacks, a smart contracts and awarding layer congenital on Bitcoin, to mine MiamiCoin, with thirty% of the revenue going back to the urban center to fund public projects. The remaining 70% of revenue tin be locked to earn rewards in Bitcoin and Stacks.

"He has MiamiCoin that is doing very well — we're going to wait in the direction to conduct that out."

New York has some of the strictest crypto exchange rules in the United States. New York-based crypto annotator Stephen Chen from Inflation Hedge Coin told Cointelegraph that he hopes the new mayor's support will see some more pro-crypto amendments to the 2022 BitLicense regulations.

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New York introduced the controversial BitLicense regulatory regime in June 2022, which has been criticized for existence hostile to crypto. The BitLicense applies to crypto organizations involved in transferring, buying, selling, exchanging or issuing crypto.

New York residents are just legally immune to buy and sell tokens from registered organizations. In that location are currently 105 canonical digital currencies in the land.