petro

…introduced a Bitcoin-like cryptocurrency, the petro, its value being linked to the price of one barrel of Venezuelan crude oil. Although Maduro claimed that the first-day sales of the petro totaled some $735 million, skeptics saw the digital currency’s creation as a desperate measure. Seeking to limit the opposition’s ability…

…February 2018 it introduced the petro, a cryptocurrency (similar to Bitcoin) whose value was tied to the price of one barrel of Venezuelan crude oil and was backed by the country’s reserves of gas, oil, gold, and diamonds. In August, against IMF projections that inflation would top one million percent…

…the Maduro government introduced the petro, a cryptocurrency (akin to the Bitcoin) whose value was tied to the price of one barrel of Venezuelan crude oil and backed by the country’s reserves of gold, diamonds, gas, and oil. Maduro claimed that the first day of petro sales had netted some…