Ohio Tests The Future Of Bitcoin Payments From State Coffers To Digital Entertainment
When a taxpayer in Ohio opens the state government website to pay a fee or register a new business, they may soon see an option that until recently felt far removed from public bureaucracy: paying the bill using cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. The change comes from a unanimous decision by the State Board of Deposit, which approved Grant Street Group as the service provider to process crypto payments and convert them immediately into dollars for the state treasury. The goal is not to turn Ohio’s Treasury into a digital asset fund, but to add one more payment rail, as routine as a ...