THELOGICALINDIAN - Venezuela has accustomed six cryptocurrency exchanges to alpha affairs its civic cryptocurrency the petro according to the governments website The petro which afresh became a Venezuelan civic bill can now be purchased at the six exchanges bounded media report
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Six Websites Authorized to Sell Petro
The Venezuelan government has accustomed six websites it claims are cryptocurrency exchanges to bazaar and advertise the petro, the country’s new civic currency. Noticiero Digital elaborated:
The six places are Cave Blockchain (caveblockchain.com), Bancar (bancarexchange.io), Cryptia (cryptiaexchange.com), Amberes Coin (amberescoin.com), Afx Barter (afx.trade), and Criptolago (criptolago.com.ve). Some of them are already announcement the petro on their websites. In his accent beforehand this month, Venezuela’s admiral Nicolas Maduro said that the petro would be accessible at “the six best able [exchanges] in the world.”
Cryptia’s website lists three cryptocurrencies for trading adjoin BTC — ETH, DASH, and XRP — but with aught trading volumes. “Buy and advertise petros through our platform,” the area on its website anecdotic the petro reads, abacus (translated from Spanish):
Amberes Coin describes itself as a cryptocurrency barter “authorized by the Venezuelan State for the acquirement and auction of the petro, bitcoin, ether and any agenda assets” that are accustomed by the country’s regulation. Afx Trade explained that it is a adapted cryptocurrency barter belvedere in Venezuela for buying, selling, and attention “digital assets central and alfresco the civic territory.”
Maduro’s government appear a new whitepaper for the petro beforehand this month, address arresting resemblance to the whitepaper for addition cryptocurrency, DASH.
In addition, the petro is no best only backed by oil, as it was aboriginal described in December of aftermost year. The new whitepaper explains that the petro is now backed by 50 percent oil, 20 percent gold, 20 percent iron, and 10 percent diamond.
In April, Maduro announced that he had “authorized the certification” of 16 exchanges for the petro. Noting that alone six exchanges accept absolutely been authorized, Noticiero Digital acicular out that Afx Trade was not included in the antecedent account of 16 exchanges.
Regulating Crypto Industry in Venezuela
In Venezuela, the National Superintendency of Criptoassets and Related Activities (Sunacrip) is amenable for acclimation cryptocurrencies and all crypto-related activities.
Its website details:
Digital mining in Venezuela is adapted by the Intendence of Agenda Mining, which is allotment of Sunacrip. “The Intendence of Agenda Mining is in allegation of planning, coordinating, announcement and active all the agenda mining and accompanying activities in Venezuela,” Sunacrip’s website describes. “This includes arising licenses [and] certifications for all mining activities.”
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