Bitcoin might seem anachronistic at a history museum, but the people of St. Petersburg seem to disagree.
The St. Petersburg Museum of History has announced it will now accept Bitcoin as payment for admissions and for goods.
A museum official told the Tampa Bay Times that accepting Bitcoin will be a welcome addition for those concerned about credit card fraud and lower transaction times.
Florida Loves Bitcoin
This isn’t the first time St. Petersburg has shown up in Bitcoin headlines this year.
Bitpay, who will be managing the St. Petersburg Museum of History’s Bitcoin transactions, also sponsored the upcoming St. Petersburg Bowl, a popular post-season NCAA football match, which has been re-branded as the Bitcoin St. Petersburg Bowl.
BitPay sponsored the event not only for this year, but subsequently until 2016. And it was recently revealed on Twitter that BitPay paid their sponsorship in Bitcoin.
For the sponsorship of @BitcoinBowl, @BitPay paid @espn in #bitcoin, Tony Gallippi confirmed today.
— Chris Wilkerson (@TBBJwilkerson) August 22, 2014
Florida is also home to Sean’s Outpost in Pensacola, one of the most visible charitable organizations in the Bitcoin world.
Sean’s Outpost founder Jason King just recently completed a run across the continental US, from Pensacola to California, to raise money and awareness for homelessness and Bitcoin.
Walt Disney World is hosting an upcoming Bitcoin event as well in October. Guest speakers for that event include Liberty.me founder Jeffrey Tucker, Skyhook’s Kyle Drake, Charlie Shrem, Chamber of Digital Commerce‘s Perianne Boring, among others.
And Interwallet, which manufactures kiosks with Bitcoin ATM functionality and other features, will be launching ten such machines in Florida.
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