The mayor of the U.S. city of Miami, Florida, has unveiled his “Vision for Bitcoin America 2024.” Stressing that the U.S. needs to elect a pro-bitcoin president, he said “we need to integrate bitcoin into every aspect of our society” this year and “unleash the macro power of bitcoin.”
The Mayor of Miami’s Vision for Bitcoin America
Miami Mayor Francis Suarez spoke about bitcoin at the Bitcoin 2022 conference taking place in his city this week. The pro-bitcoin mayor has spearheaded several bitcoin initiatives in his city and state. His salary is already paid in bitcoin and his municipal employees can choose to be paid in bitcoin.
“I need to articulate a vision for this country,” he said. “The vision is simple. I call it: Vision for Bitcoin America 2024.” Suarez explained that it has three points, stating:
The first is that we must elect pro-bitcoin candidates, and yes, the next president of the United States must be a pro-bitcoin candidate.
“Because what’s at stake is federal legislation that can either propel us into the next generation or can set us back,” the mayor emphasized.
“There is one thing the United States should never do: they should never agree on anything with Russia and China when it comes to bitcoin,” he continued, clarifying :
The second thing we need to do this year is we need to integrate bitcoin into every aspect of our society, every part of the fabric of our society. We need to make sure that you can go into a convenience store and buy a Snickers with a satoshi.
Mayor Suarez then made his third point. “The last thing we need to do is: we need to unleash the macro power of bitcoin,” he said. “Bitcoin has the power to democratize and create wealth for the unbanked and for the poor in our community who are being decimated by inflation and government spending that has gone rampant.”
The pro-bitcoin mayor noted: “If you have a bank account today, guess how much interest you’re earning — zero. And it’s worse than that because of inflation. Someone is sticking a hand in your bank account and taking money out because the purchasing power of your fiat currency, the fiat currency of the world, is being diminished.”
He pointed out:
So we need to look at this opportunity for generational wealth creation so that the poor in our community are not left behind as they always do when government intervenes.
Suarez noted: “We have to understand that bitcoin has a possibility of being able to allow for people to transmit money outside of the banking system efficiently and quickly and give people in countries that are dominated by, in many cases, socialist and communist regimes the ability to untether themselves from that control, and be able to be free and be able to spend money in their countries and buy goods without having to worry that the currency that they’re using is being controlled by the very government that controls all of their decisions.”
Emphasizing that “We want to create a world of economic peace and prosperity…Bitcoin has been a factor of good all over the world,” he concluded:
We want a world of freedom. We want a world where people can choose their own destiny, where their tomorrows are better than their yesterdays — and I plan to be a part of it.
