Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro (C) delivers a speach next to Vice-President Tarek El Aissami (L) next to Venezuela's Minister of Science, Technology and University Education Hugbel Roa (R) during a press conference to launch to the market a new oil-backed cryptocurrency called "Petro", at the Miraflores Presidential Palace in Caracas, on February 20.
Venezuela formally launched its new oil-backed cryptocurrency on Tuesday in an unconventional bid to haul itself out of a deepening economic crisis. The leftist Caracas government put 38.4 million units of the world's first state-backed digital currency, the Petro, on private pre-sale from the early hours. A total of 100 million Petros will go on sale, with an initial value set at $60, based on the price of a barrel of Venezuelan crude in mid-January.
Venezuela formally launched its new oil-backed cryptocurrency on Tuesday in an unconventional bid to haul itself out of a deepening economic crisis. The leftist Caracas government put 38.4 million units of the world's first state-backed digital currency, the Petro, on private pre-sale from the early hours. A total of 100 million Petros will go on sale, with an initial value set at $60, based on the price of a barrel of Venezuelan crude in mid-January.
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Caracas, 20 fev (EFE).- O presidente da Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, anunciou nesta terça-feira que a pré-venda da criptomoeda nacional denominada petro alcançou US$ 735 milhões desde a sua ativação, à meia-noite de ontem, até as 20h desta terça-feira (horário local, 22h de Brasília).
São 20h32 de 20 de fevereiro e alcançamos uma intenção de compra na pré-venda da ordem dos 4,777 bilhões de iuanes, 596 milhões de euros, US$ 735 milhões, afirmou Maduro no ato de lançamento da sua oferta inicial.
Esta criptomoeda venezuelana está respaldada por 5,342 bilhões de barris de petróleo e seu preço está sujeito ao valor do barril venezuelano, que nos últimos dias oscilou ao redor dos US$ 60. EFE
