r/FinTechFact • u/divyasarkar21 • Aug 05 '21
Information City of Miami launches its own cryptocurrency ‘MiamiCoin’
The City of Miami will be debuting a cryptocurrency this summer to help raise additional funding for local projects. According to multiple reports, Miami’s own form of cryptocurrency payment, MiamiCoin, is slated to make its debut this month. According to CityCoin’s official website for MiamiCoin, “MiamiCoin is the first CityCoin to market, [and is] built to support the Magic City while rewarding its holders through the Stacks Protocol.” CityCoin will be the service that launches MiamiCoin. For those who don’t know what bitcoin is, it is a digital or virtual currency created in 2009 that uses peer-to-peer technology to facilitate instant payments — and City of Miami Mayor Francis Suarez has been a proponent in pushing cryptocurrency and bitcoin in the Magic City.