"El Petro", a cryptocurrency with which Venezuela tries to alleviate its economic crisis
In mid-2017, Venezuela announced the creation of a national cryptocurrency, which they have dubbed "El Petro", and which will be backed by the country's reserves of oil, natural gas, gold and diamonds. The objective of this measure is to "move towards new forms of international financing for the economic and social development of the country."
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The Venezuelan Observatory of Technology Blockchain believes that the Petro is emerging as one of the safest crypto-active in the world for investors, to have sustenance of the nation's oil reserves and to be the first cryptocurrency issued by a State.
Likewise, he indicated that the positioning of Petro will have a lot to do with the value of oil reserves, by counting Venezuela with the largest of this resource in the world. Unlike the more than 1,500 existing cryptocurrencies worldwide, including the pioneering Bitcoin and Ether, the Petro is the only one that has physical support to be supported with 5,342 million barrels of field 1 of the Ayacucho Block of the Oil Belt of the Orinoco.
"The Petro is very interesting because anyone, regardless of where it is located on the planet, can buy it in freely convertible currency. The Venezuelan cryptoactive can be used to acquire goods or services and will be redeemable for fiduciary money and other cryptoactives through digital exchange houses.
In addition, it may exercise the functions of a digital representation of goods or raw materials and serve as scaffolding to create other digital tools oriented to trade and national and international finance.
For the economist:
Leonardo Galindo, the Petro stands as a source of important financing and can contribute to the development of the economy by receiving money to capitalize a new currency that serves to move the local economy.
Luis Enrique Gavazut points out that the Executive's proposal, due to the conditions it has, will allow the capture of capital through foreign investment.
Comment and give us your opinion about the Cryptocurrency "El Petro"
the best opinion will be voted on by me and my assistants.
Before I can form an opinion, I need to know more. Some cryptocoins are designed with measures intended to protect privacy, while others rely on confirmation of identity. Some cryptocoins are designed with measures intended to support decentralized applications and smart contracts, while others concentrate on transaction speed and volume. Some cryptocoins aim to make banks obsolete, while others aim to make banks more profitable. I'm not sure I understand what it means in practice for a cryptocoin to be backed by redeemable assets. I have been studying what it means to treat a cryptocoin as an asset in and of itself. If making the Petro succeed were my job, I would focus on creating websites where goods and services can be bought for this coin, especially travel-related websites. All the best!