Venezuelan President Announces ‘Petro’ Oil-Backed Cryptocurrency

Venezuelan President Announces ‘Petro’ Oil-Backed Cryptocurrency

It's also a notable development given that some residents of Venezuela have turned to bitcoin mining in an effort to make money amid the crisis. The Atlantic noted in September that low electricity costs have made mining – an energy-intensive process by which new transactions are added to a … social experiment by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit …