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Miami Has Earned $5 Million Through Mining CityCoins

by Cryptobriefing

Key Takeaways

  • Miami mayor Francis Suarez announced today that the city has received its first payout from CityCoins.

  • The first payment amounted to $5.25 million of cryptocurrency; another $15.9 million remains in the city’s wallet.

  • New York is also participating in the CityCoins project. Its wallet currently has a balance of $20 million.




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Miami mayor Francis Suarez announced today that the city has received its first cryptocurrency payout from CityCoins.

Miami CityCoins Received

Suarez said that the city received $5.25 million in cryptocurrency from its mining efforts within the CityCoins project.

“This is a historic moment for our city to collaborate with an innovative project that creates resources for our city through innovation not taxation,” he wrote on Twitter.



The wallet sending the transactions also holds another $15.9 million of crypto. It is unclear whether those funds are for the city itself or for individual participants. Earlier statements suggest that funds will be split 30%-70% between Miami and its residents.

CityCoins Effort Began In August

Miami’s decision to participate in the CityCoins project was first announced in August 2021. Early reports suggested that its participation could generate as much as $60 million. The city also received $7.1 million from CityCoins as an initial donation.

CityCoins uses Proof-of-Work mining “recycled” from Bitcoin’s blockchain, meaning that the effort is ecologically sustainable. The project is built on the Stacks network, a development layer for Bitcoin.


CityCoins aims to extend its partnerships to other cities. New York, under the governance of mayor Eric Adams, notably expressed his intent to work with the project last November. New York’s CityCoins wallet currently has a balance of $20 million.

Both Adams and Suarez have also accepted certain paychecks in Bitcoin. Adams received his first Bitcoin paycheck on Jan. 21.

Disclosure: At the time of writing, the author of this piece owned BTC, ETH, and other cryptocurrencies.

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‘Philly is ready’ for CityCoins says city council

by Cointelegraph

Philadelphia is on the cusp of following in the footsteps of Miami, Austin and New York City by partnering with CityCoins to develop a crypto for the city of Brotherly Love.

Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney has endorsed the concept and told government news media site Statescoop that his office is “enthusiastic about the potential of donations from a CityCoins program to target pressing problems in the city.”

Philly’s Chief Information Officer and apparent Bitcoin (BTC) supporter Mark Wheeler said that “Philly is ready” to begin working with CityCoins in a Jan. 31 tweet.

CityCoins is a software application on the Stacks (STX) blockchain that helps city governments create a unique cryptocurrency. Transactions on Stacks settle on the Bitcoin network.

New York City and Miami are already using CityCoins to increase their treasury holdings. Thirty percent of mined STX tokens are sent to the city’s wallet then sold for USD which goes directly into the city treasury. Miners retain the rest.

In a Feb. 1 interview, Wheeler indicated that the city would begin formally vetting CityCoins to ensure that any potential partnership they enter into together complies with existing laws concerning cryptocurrency.

Wheeler addressed the environmental concern of adopting a program that utilizes a Proof-of-Work blockchain like Bitcoin. He pointed out that CityCoins doesn’t require users to use any additional hardware which could generate further harm to the environment. He told Statescoop on Feb. 1:

“I think we can simply say, ‘This isn’t Bitcoin and it’s not requiring new servers to be set up and it’s not requiring intensive energy use.’ I think that’s a valid, verifiable statement.”

Last November, Wheeler announced that Philadelphia would work toward adding blockchain technology to the city’s government. He took the city of Miami as inspiration for the initiative.

Miami launched its MiamiCoin with CityCoins last August to help the city raise funds which Mayor Francis Suarez said could be used to cover the tax burden for all of its residents.

Related: MiamiCoin has now raised $24.7 million… but who will benefit?

New York City launched its NYCCoin in a partnership with CityCoins last November. As with MiamiCoin, NYCCoin miners receive STX and BTC rewards for supplying the city with tokens.

Austin, Texas has also entered into a partnership with CityCoins, but mining has not yet begun.