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May 5, 2021
The Miami-Dade County Commission passed a resolution to create a cryptocurrency task force.
The task force will look at allowing the county to accept cryptocurrencies as payment for taxes, fees and services.
Commissioner Danielle Cohen Higgins, sponsored the resolution. We have a chance to lead as the crypto county and explore policy in this emerging industry, Higgins said. By revolutionizing how we do trade, cryptocurrency and blockchain technologies have the potential to attract and retain highly skilled talent, create jobs, and grow our local economy.
The task force will include 13 members appointed by the board, and each must have at least five years’ experience in the cryptocurrency, financial, banking, business development, or cybersecurity industries.
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U.S. Rep. Charlie Crist officially launched his campaign for Florida governor on Tuesday, the first major candidate to jump into the Democratic primary with hopes of taking on Gov. Ron DeSantis in 2022. This will be Crist’s second attempt at winning back the job he held from 2007 to 2011, when he was a Republican. He was the Democratic Party’s nominee for governor in 2014, a race he narrowly lost to Rick Scott, who is now the state’s junior senator. More from the Tampa Bay Times and the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.
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MIAMI, Florida, April 22, 2021 (ENS) – Autonomous air taxis will fly the skies over Miami, Florida by 2024, if plans by California-based Archer Aviation come to fruition. The company’s Miami announcement came a week after Archer executives met with Miami Mayor Francis Suarez to discuss the company’s intention to establish an urban air mobility network in the South Florida city to serve its nearly 500,000 residents.
“We know that infrastructure and transportation solutions in southern Florida must change over the next decade to curb carbon emissions, decrease traffic, and create the multimodal transportation networks of the future,” said Mayor Suarez.
Little Haiti has its own superhero, and he s trying to help the community with an unlikely superpower: cryptocurrency.
Nandy Martin, who prefers to be known by his alter ego, Captain Haiti, has been a resident of Miami s Little Haiti neighborhood for the past five years. Easily recognizable when he walks or bikes down the street, Martin wears a cape, a red jumpsuit, and a circular shield adorned with the red and blue of the Haitian flag, in tribute to the Marvel Comics character Captain America. Everybody calls me Captain Haiti now, especially kids. But even my friends don t realize who s calling them unless I say, It s Captain Haiti, Martin says.
Central Florida and Southwest Florida outpaced South Florida in population growth, according to the census data. We’ve never been the center of the state but we’ve been the center of attention. So now the center of the state will become the center of attention,” said Dr. Maria Ilcheva, the assistant director of Florida International University’s Metropolitan Center - which was part of the local census committee.
Local leaders knew the consequences and spent much of 2020 urging people in South Florida to fill out census forms and be counted. We’re never going to receive the money that we deserve if we don’t know how many people are living in our city,” said Miami Mayor Francis Suarez in 2020.