Nicholas Maduro, President of Venezuela, states that the compensation of Christmas bonuses for Venezuelan pensioners and retirees is in the national crypto Petro.
This particular example is not the first time Venezuela converted pension bonuses into PTR. Moreover, in the past, there have been attempts to push this native cryptocurrency into the wallets of pensioners as well.
As reported in December last year, Venezuela back then automatically converted pensioners’ monthly bonuses for the year into Petro.
The Twitter profile of local news outlet Venepress reported Maduro’s recent announcement on November 17.
The government of Venezuela launched the pre-sale of the world’s first national, oil-backed crypto asset in February last year. To trade and buy using
However, it raised concerns among foreign observers at the beginning. As a result, experts scathingly denounced Petro as an intransparent ‘stunt’ backed by a centralized and debt-saddled entity.
According to Francisco Torrealba, the Deputy of the National Constituent Assembly of Venezuela, all currencies will be replaced by cryptocurrencies in the future. Talking about Venezuela, Torrealba said that the country is facing a significant change, and Maduro is making a considerable contribution to Venezuela by creating the Petro (PTR).
CEO of Lima-based crypto exchange BitInka, Roger Benites, says that he believes Maduro is using Petro and blockchain technology as a ‘smoke curtain.’ According to Benites, the Venezuelan president is trying to distance his actions from the former president Hugo Chavez superficially.
Still, in general, the local government is increasingly pushing national crypto and cryptocurrencies as a whole.
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