Rio de Janeiro mayor Eduardo Paes talked about Bitcoin with Miami mayor and BTC bull Francis Suarez at Rio Innovation Week.
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Eduardo Paes, mayor of Brazilian city Rio de Janeiro, desires to allocate 1% of town’s treasury into Bitcoin (BTC), Cointelegraph Brazil reported.
Paes reportedly launched plans for “Crypto Rio,” or turning town trusty into a cryptocurrency hub within the course of Rio Innovation Week on Thursday, according to a epic by local data company O Globo.
The mayor spoke about Rio’s cryptocurrency-linked ambitions in a panel with Miami mayor and Bitcoin bull Francis Suarez, who began accepting his paychecks in BTC in November 2021.
“We’re going to commence Crypto Rio and invest 1% of the treasury in cryptocurrency. The government has a role to play,” Paes reportedly said, adding that the roar will most likely be planning to introduce tax exemptions for the exchange.
The panel also incorporated predominant Brazilian officers like city finance secretary Pedro Paulo, who effectively-known that the administration is brooding about a 10% prick value on property tax in Brazil on payments with Bitcoin. “Let’s ogle the nice framework to enact this,” he said.
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The details comes as the Brazilian govt an increasing number of warms its stance on Bitcoin and the cryptocurrency exchange, with federal deputy Luizão Goulart proposing a bill to legalize crypto as a charge diagram for public and personal sector workers in November. In December, MercadoPago, a predominant crypto charge company in Brazil, enabled Brazilian residents to construct up, promote and elevate predominant cryptocurrencies like BTC and Ether (ETH).
