Francis X. Suarez (@FrancisSuarez) — Twitter Score 281 out of 1000

Francis X. Suarez is a former mayor and attorney who served as the 43rd Mayor of Miami and became one of the most prominent municipal advocates for Bitcoin and cryptocurrency adoption in the United States. Francis X. Suarez's Twitter Score is 281 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of August 2026, ranking #1,213 (top 0.5%) among 485,188 tracked accounts.

Francis X. Suarez served as Mayor of Miami from 2017 until Eileen Higgins was sworn in as mayor in December 2025, and previously served as the 80th President of the United States Conference of Mayors. During his tenure, he worked to position Miami as a global cryptocurrency hub, attracting crypto conferences to the city, installing a crypto bull statue downtown, and announcing in November 2021 that he would take his next maycheck in bitcoin. As of a Financial Times report in March 2024, he continued to hold that bitcoin payment.

Francis X. Suarez was publicly associated with MiamiCoin, a project created by CityCoins that required Stacks to mine, with 30 percent of Stacks spent by miners directed to a crypto wallet earmarked for Miami's government. He praised MiamiCoin after its 2021 launch and said in a September 2021 Washington Post interview that the scheme could make it possible to run a government without citizens paying taxes. As of April 26, 2022, Miami's MiamiCoin-related wallet contained over $13 million in Stacks, and in February 2022 Miami's government cashed out $5.25 million from the wallet for a rental assistance fund. Wired reported in April 2022 that MiamiCoin had no utility inside Miami, with users unable to pay taxes, buy a bus ticket, or rent a flat with it.

Francis X. Suarez also supported plans by FTX to move its U.S. operation to Miami. After FTX filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on November 11, 2022, and Sam Bankman-Fried resigned as CEO, Francis X. Suarez acknowledged that his earlier support had not matured well. Axios reported in June 2023 that, as mayor, he had limited executive authority under Miami's city-manager system and also worked concurrently as an attorney and private equity executive, previously at DaGrosa Capital Partners.

Francis X. Suarez is now President of Alpha Wave Global and works at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan as Of Counsel. He is also a contributor at Fox News. Francis X. Suarez has published 20,023 posts on the platform and has 147,721 followers as of August 2026. He has been mentioned by 858 accounts, with 2,299 total mentions.

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The accounts that follow Francis X. Suarez include 1,157 founders, 281 angel investors, 355 influencers and 32 VCs. Among his notable followers are Balaji, Brian Armstrong, Chris Dixon, CZ BNB, Marc Andreessen and vitalik.eth.