The Minister of Communications of Venezuela, Jorge Rodriguez, has sounded desire of the authorities of the country any day to start a new type of cryptocurrency in the address. She will receive the name "petro" and will be provided with natural resources, first of all – crude oil. The oil-extracting region of Ayacucho where 5.442 billion barrels of the certified oil are concentrated will act as "bank".
Venezuela is also ready to support the cryptocurrency by gas, gold and diamonds, but in very modest, careful scales. At the first stage petro in an equivalent of 5,3 billion barrels will go to the address, all 267 billion barrels are allocated for providing monetary unit. According to Rodriguez, mayner "have already queued", but doesn't give any details.
