Burger King is letting people pay their way in Venezuela with a new bitcoin partnership that enables cryptocurrency purchases, CoinTelegraph reported on Saturday (Jan. 4). Confirmed in a Dec. 30 tweet by @cryptobuyer, a Panama-based crypto platform, there is one Burger King in the Sambil...
Venezuela’s central bank is getting ready to pull the trigger on cryptocurrency payments. President Nicolas Maduro said in a televised press conference that the government will be using cryptos as a “method for free national and international payments.” “The finance minister and Venezuela’s central bank...
Sources have revealed that Venezuela might use a Russian-operated international payments messaging system in an effort to get around U.S. sanctions. The country has reportedly asked for more information from their Russian counterparts as it considers implementing an alternative system in case the country is...
European Central Bank (ECB) Executive Board Member Benoit Coeure has asked financial regulators to create a framework for crypto projects ahead of Facebook’s launch of its own digital currency, Libra. “It’s out of the question to allow them to develop in a regulatory void for...
August 12, 2020
Venezuela may be going forward with a plan to allow the use of the Petro (PTR) cryptocurrency to pay taxes, according to Cointelegraph. A group of the country’s mayors, the Bolivarian Council of Mayors, has signed onto the government’s “National Tax Harmonization Agreement” that would allow 305 municipalities in the country to pay taxes with […]
January 05, 2020
Burger King is letting people pay their way in Venezuela with a new bitcoin partnership that enables cryptocurrency purchases, CoinTelegraph reported on Saturday (Jan. 4). Confirmed in a Dec. 30...
September 30, 2019
Venezuela’s central bank is getting ready to pull the trigger on cryptocurrency payments. President Nicolas Maduro said in a televised press conference that the government will be using cryptos as...
July 17, 2019
Sources have revealed that Venezuela might use a Russian-operated international payments messaging system in an effort to get around U.S. sanctions. The country has reportedly asked for more information from...
