{"id":16184,"date":"2017-12-28T12:22:59","date_gmt":"2017-12-28T12:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=16184"},"modified":"2017-12-28T12:22:59","modified_gmt":"2017-12-28T12:22:59","slug":"venezuelan-president-sheds-light-on-proposed-crypto-currency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/venezuelan-president-sheds-light-on-proposed-crypto-currency\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuelan President sheds light on proposed crypto-currency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Caracas,<br \/>\nVenezuelan President Nicolas Maduro says the cash-strapped country has picked an oil field to back its proposed digital currency called the petro.<\/p>\n<p>Maduro\u2019s comments on Thursday proposed the crypto-currency to shed some light on the government\u2019s project for which few public details have been released.<\/p>\n<p>He identifies the field as the Ayacucho Block of the Orinoco Belt and says it has proven reserves of more than 5 billion barrels of oil.<\/p>\n<p>Maduro says each barrel of oil pumped there will equal one petro.<\/p>\n<p>The president first proposed the crypto-currency early in December as a way to fight what he calls a financial \u201cblockade\u201d by the Trump administration against the socialist- run country.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caracas, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro says the cash-strapped country has picked an oil field to back its proposed digital currency called the petro. Maduro\u2019s comments on Thursday proposed the crypto-currency to shed some light on the government\u2019s project for which few public details have been released. He identifies the field as the Ayacucho Block of [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16185,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16186,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16184\/revisions\/16186"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}