캘리포니아의 버클리는 연방 기금에 의존도를 줄이기 위해 ICO의 시작을 고려하고있다고 합니다
정부는 새로운 프로젝트의 자금을 위해 채권을 판매하고 있지만
블록체인 기술이 추가된다면 많은 주민들, 투자자들이 투자하기 매력적으로 만들수 있다고 생각해서입니다.
이러한 방법은 트럼프 정부가 버클리를 포함한 많은 도시에 대한 재원 삭감 경고와 조치에 대응하기 위하여 시작되었고 한 의원은 그러기 위해서는 암호화화폐가 필요하다고 주장했습니다.
The city of Berkeley, California is considering launching an initial coin offering (ICO) in a stated effort to reduce its dependence on federal funding. The ICO would raise funds by selling digital coins that would be backed by government municipal bonds, according to Business Insider, which spoke to a Berkeley city council member who described the plan.
Governments ordinarily sell municipal bonds to finance new projects, and some in Berkeley’s government hope the addition of blockchain technology will make the venture more appealing to residents who might already be bitcoin investors. In theory, coin holders might also use the cryptocurrency within the local economy.
Introducing a viable cryptocurrency for real-world transactions is ambitious, to say the least: only select businesses in the US currently accept cryptocurrency as a form of payment, and several platforms that previously accepted bitcoin now no longer support it due to its price volatility and high transaction fees.
The initiative was launched in response to the Trump administration’s recent tax cuts — the administration has made repeated threats to cut funding to “sanctuary cities” such as Berkeley. “Berkeley is the center of the resistance, and for the resistance to work, it must have a coin,” council member Ben Bartlett said to BI.
Bartlett teamed up with Berkeley’s mayor, Jesse Arreguín, UC Berkeley’s Blockchain Lab, and the start-up Neighborly to attempt to plan out an ICO. They hope any funds raised will help fuel more affordable housing to combat any side-effects of the new tax bill.
The Trump administration has an antagonistic relationship with the well-known liberal municipality. Over Twitter, Trump personally threatened to pull federal funding from UC Berkeley last February, after protests erupted over alt-right figure and Breitbart News editor Milo Yiannopoulos who had been invited to speak.
Berkeley’s central administrative offices did not immediately respond.
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