“The Petro has been born, has been building its ecosystem, has become functional and is already in the whole world, “
The president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, said Wednesday.
In a national broadcast in radio and television the Head of State urged merchants and businessmen to get in on cryptocurrency system, “we facilitate the technological part”
“If you have a good store, a good supermarket, you have a sale of household appliances, subscribe to the cryptocurrency system, we provide you with the technological part,” the Venezuelan president urged.
President Maduro announced last Tuesday more than three million people decided to save on the Venezuelan cryptoactive who can dispose the cryptocurrency as a unit convertible to other currencies in some establishments of national commerce.
“I want to announce Cryptocurrency through ,the mechanisms of the Superintendency, the Central Bank of Venezuela and the vice presidency of the economy, I will proceed to convert all saved petros into bolivars into convertible petros into currencies,” said the President.
He said his decision seeks more than three million savers “can buy in currencies in any trade sells in currencies” and said the measure’s an incentive to confidence these people deposited, when he called the savings in petros last year .