Maduro Orders the Issue of 100M Petros, Venezuela’s Oil-Backed Cryptocurrency
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Maduro Orders the Issue of 100M Petros, Venezuela’s Oil-Backed Cryptocurrency

THELOGICALINDIAN - The aboriginal affair of Venezuelas civic cryptocurrency has been ordered by President Nicols Maduro He has additionally alleged for the aboriginal civic affair of the petros miners area he will absolution the whitepaper for the new currency

Also read: Venezuela Unveils Mining, Trading, and Launch Details of National Cryptocurrency

100 Million Petros Incoming

On Friday Venezuela’s admiral Nicolás Maduro ordered the affair of the aboriginal units of the nation’s accessible agenda currency, alleged the petro. He said:

According to El Nuevo Herald, the arising of these bill “will be done by basic barter houses that are currently in a balloon period.”

In addition, the authorities in allegation of the petro will assemble on January 14 at the aboriginal civic affair of the petro’s miners. At that time, the new bill will be formally presented and its whitepaper released, the advertisement detailed. Maduro stated:

Can the Petro Really Be Oil-Backed?

Maduro aboriginal announced the conception of Venezuela’s civic cryptocurrency in aboriginal December. The afterward week, he created the Superintendency of cryptocurrencies as able-bodied as a Blockchain Observatory to baby-sit the barrage and operation of the new agenda currency.

Soon afterward, he appear an official Gazette account the mining, trading, and barrage of the petro, as news.Bitcoin.com ahead reported. He additionally claimed to accept allocated over 5 billion barrels of awkward oil to aback this new currency. In addition, he has opened up a anthology for any acknowledged Venezuelan citizens to assurance up to abundance the petro. Registration charcoal accessible until January 21.

However, some are skeptical about Maduro’s plans. Jose Guerra, an action administrator who active the National Assembly’s Finance Commission, believes that Maduro’s cryptocurrency would not be legal. In an account with Abc Internacional, he claimed:

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