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September 26, 2019 03:20 pm

Venezuela Has Bitcoin Stash and Doesn't Know What to Do With It

Venezuela's central bank is running internal tests to determine whether it can hold cryptocurrencies in its coffers, Bloomberg reports. From the report: The efforts come at the behest of state-run Petroleos de Venezuela SA, which is seeking to send Bitcoin and Ethereum to the central bank and have the monetary authority pay the oil company's suppliers with the tokens, according to the people, who asked not to be identified discussing internal deliberations. Staffers are also studying proposals that would allow cryptocurrencies to be counted toward international reserves, now near a three-decade low at $7.9 billion. U.S. sanctions against Nicolas Maduro's authoritarian regime have largely isolated Venezuela from the global financial system, exacerbating one of world's most severe economic crises and forcing officials to use a patchwork of methods to move money around. While Maduro's prior efforts to start the world's first sovereign crypto largely failed, the continued efforts to use digital currencies shows how desperate the government is to come up with a way to skirt the restrictions.

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