A Complete Guide to Petro - Venezuela’s Cryptocurrency Driven Attempt to Attain An Edgeby@eduardoprospero
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A Complete Guide to Petro - Venezuela’s Cryptocurrency Driven Attempt to Attain An Edge

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The Venezuelan cryptocurrency is a question mark, an oddity, a riddle wrapped up in an enigma. Maduro said last year he hopes for the Petro to be used in international petroleum commerce: “In 2019 we have a chronogram for it to be sold in Petros” And in a tweet from about that time he doubled down on the idea that the cryptocurrency would “break the blockade imposed by the imperialism” Trump, via an executive order dated March 19, 2018 declared: ‘All transactions related to, provision of financing for, and other dealings in, by a United States person or within the United States, are prohibited”

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