President Trump recently announced a ban on Venezuela’s new national cryptocurrency, the petro.
That’s right—Venezuela created its own national crypto, possibly to circumvent U.S. sanctions.
But could the petro do more than that, and actually catalyze government-controlled cryptos around the world?
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