By Bitcoin.com - 2 år sedan - Lästid: 2 minuter
Venezuelas Maduro vill erbjuda kryptobaserade lån till jordbruksproducenter
Nicolas Maduro, Venezuelas president, uppgav att landet kan erbjuda kryptovaluta-baserade lån till jordbrukssektorn, förutom de traditionella lånen i flera fiatvalutor. Han uppgav också att Venezuela har arbetat med petro och andra kryptovalutor i tre år, banbrytande för användningen av denna typ av tillgångar i Latam.
Regeringens tips om att erbjuda kryptolån i Venezuela
Maduro antydde at the possibility of giving loans in cryptocurrency to the agricultural industry in an announcement made in a cabinet meeting last Thursday. He stated the country would look for new ways to finance domestic agriculture and also stated these loans would feature low interest rates to benefit farmers. Elaborating to his ministers, Maduro noted:
Jag ber dig personligen att leda den offentliga banksektorn och kalla de privata bankerna för att multiplicera lån och finansiering under de mildaste förutsättningarna för alla livsmedelsproducenter i landet.
Förslaget introducerar också tanken på att ge dessa lån i flera fiatvalutor, till exempel euro och till och med den kinesiska yuanen. Medan Maduro nämnde Venezuelas egen kryptovaluta, petro, uppgav han också att de kommer att arbeta med alla kryptovalutor, som regeringen har gjort i tre år nu.
En flykt från Bolivar
Maduro’s shift to cryptocurrency signals a deficiency in the strength of Venezuela’s own fiat currency, the bolivar, which has been quickly losing ground against the dollar, which has become the de facto currency in the country. Just recently, on June 20th, the bolivar förlorat more than 10%, and now that loss is closer to 20%, according to popular dollar price indexes.
This is why the government is considering redenominering of its currency, slashing six zeroes from the current figure. This would facilitate the task of calculating taxes and making large payments, which with today’s exchange rate result in very big numbers difficult to work with.
This is not the first time the Venezuelan government has turned to cryptocurrency to try to improve its economic standing. Venezuela was one of the first countries in Latam to develop a sizable Bitcoin mining community even before the activity was regulated. Also, Venezuela was a pioneer in cryptocurrency adoption, with the launch of one of the first state-sponsored cryptocurrencies, the petro. Maduro betonade this idea in an interview given to Bloomberg on June 22 amidst the big reaction El Salvador elicited when it made bitcoin lagliga betalningsmedel.
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