Millions of Venezuelans Voted via Blockchain in an Unofficial Anti-Maduro Ref...
An unofficial referendum pursued by the Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó took place over the weekend in Venezuela powered by a blockchain platform, while at the same time, parliamentary elections called by the president Nicolás Maduro also had its scenario in a widely criticized, qualified by many countries as a “fraud.” Venezuela’s Guaidó Orchestrated Parallel Referendum via Blockchain Platform According to Spanish media outlet ABC, over 6.5 million Venezuelans cast their votes via Voatz, a U.S. blockchain-powered platform used for....
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The president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, approved a minimum wage raise increase last week that took it to three dollars monthly, a very low income for the citizens of the country that are facing a strong economic crisis since 2013. However, the crypto environment has been growing, and now Venezuelans are flocking to exchanges like Binance and Localbitcoins, platforms that are now serving thousands of Venezuelan users monthly with their peer-to-peer offerings destined to preserve the value of their money. Venezuela’s Minimum Wage Raised to $3 Monthly Earlier this week. Nicolas....
Decentralized finance (defi) is allegedly coming to Venezuela after a recent decree from Venezuelan President, Nicolás Maduro and the United Socialist Party of Venezuela. The government recently introduced a defi platform called BDVE that purportedly provides Venezuelan citizens with the means to swap ERC20 tokens in a noncustodial manner. For quite some time now Venezuela has had to deal with strict economic sanctions. President Nicolás Maduro spoke about these sanctions in a new mandate called the “Anti-blockade Law for National Development and the Guarantee of Human....
Crypto garnered another mention in one of Maduro's bombastic speeches. The President of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro says that the country's government is now looking at diverse cryptocurrencies as a potential way of avoiding sanctions.On Sept. 29, Maduro presented a new bill that intends to help the country overcome the impact of United States’ sanctions. As part of the bill, Venezuela will study the possibility of using various cryptocurrencies in both domestic and foreign trade. Maduro claimed that the new anti-sanctions bill involves both private and state-backed crypto initiatives like....
President Nicolas Maduro stated that Venezuela was a pioneer in cryptocurrency adoption in Latam in an interview with Bloomberg last week. Venezuela is still one of the first cryptocurrency volume movers in South America. However, the petro token, its official cryptocurrency, has failed to pick up steam in national and international markets. President Nicolas Maduro Reaffirms Venezuelan Pioneer Status in the Cryptocurrency Field Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro reaffirmed the pioneer action that Venezuela had on crypto adoption in Latam. The statements were given during an interview....
The country’s foreign currency policy has been restricting exchanges for several years now, and since then the only legal method for Venezuelans to get US dollars is through a government agency. Venezuelans can have loads and loads of bolivars (the national currency) and still be unable to buy the sorts of goods that many in the developed world take for granted. Currency controls imposed by the former President Hugo Chavez more than a decade ago and maintained by his successor Nicolas Maduro, make it difficult for citizens to exchange bolivars for US dollars and other foreign currencies.....