RE: The Ongoing Crisis in Venezuela and the "Petro Coin" continues!
well ... you certainly got the discussion going here 
. Dont mind if i re-steem i suppose ... apart from the critical reality of the topic its great to see actual engagement instead of "great post" and "nice one".
As for the petro, personally i think, no matter what the hidden agenda might be its at the very least an attempted solution off the beaten track where all else has failed. Even if some bigwig runs off with a wad of cash i dont think thats SO bad if it means people get to eat without having to resort to prostitution or highway robbery. Politicians being what they are, once a certain of power is obtained, corruption seems to be inevitable anyway so its probably best to focus on the collateral and side effects.
Trump going against it doesnt mean all that much as it once would have. Europe doesnt seem averse to adopting it. Deutschland had a motion to not tax purchases made in crypto for instance (which at the core is nothing but a move to push the cash-from-thin-air that made some nouveau riche back into the classic (lets not say outdated) economy.
And moreover if the united lobbies say no, russia is prone to say yes lol ... china meeting with korea is still a question mark but certainly a sign of the times. Its no secret kim soong certainly isnt averse to it seeing as he was being blocked by half the planet of getting funds for resources he turned to it if all i read is correct.
its wait and see, if it actually turns out to be lucrative AND help get votes ?
the united lobbies will turn coat in less time than a photon bounces off the wall after you hit the lightswitch
wait and see
Well put, we ourselves were interested in the "Petro" to the extent that it may possibly "put food on the table" while in the same instance, prove to be a lucrative venture as we became more involved with this ever-evolving blockchain technology. I can remember a "code-phrase" that started becoming commonly used ever since I heard Pres. Obama give his speech at his final "State of the Union" address in 2016 where he said those magic words "We need to make all assets digital". As truthers, this statement had us goin "hmmmm" because although we may be used to the typical political jargonistic "show-boating" that occurs at these events, there is normally a general if not definitive understanding of what is being said so... As we dug deeper into this phrase that continually popped up speech after speech by various members of our government as well as a few unspoken of business moguls regardless of their attempts to remain out of the spotlight, our research all led us down to one single path...........Blockchain.
i doubt they will make all assets digital lol. Blockchain and government isnt very compatible since you can't alter transactions after the fact, you can't erase them either unless you change the whole concept at its core in which case its not much different from a classic system , or a torrent although torrents don't keep all files ever in one large file but i suppose the principle is somewhat similar. The day banks and governments accepts hyperledgers i'm afraid it means they found a way to cheat ;-)
I would like to believe the same and you do offer a very good argument to support what you say. I just can't shake the feeling that I get sometimes that "This is all a trap". As good as it could be.... What if the very thing that we thought was intended to set us free is what enslaves us? Could you imagine what the right corrupt individual/group could do with blockchain integrated into every aspect of our lives? The horrific examples that we could come up with are almost limitless.
i doubt any individual could do much with it because thats the whole thing : de-centralization, it would require a totally mayan shift (meaning : the socalled end of the world they predicted never meant "destruction of the planet" but rather "end of the old world" . It's somewhere close to the hindu yugas (which you can look up on wikipedia or im gonna have to write a whole book), cycles the universe goes through, where we now are in the Cali-yuga (which is the age of the demon Cali, not the goddess (hinduism is a very complex type of religion which actually encompasses "the one" but gives it over million faces, or facets if you will , which is another book , and i'm talking in brackets again like its a mathematical formula here
i was trying to say it's completely alike what the mayans were writing about : "cycles", meaning, (sorry for my typical chaotic way of trying to explain whats just one picture in my head here)
meaning after the Caliyuga there would be the satya yuga (which actually completely alike to the mayan new world) in which people (im getting to the point here i think) in which people communicate in thoughts, not words, effectively eliminating all lies and corruption (where in hindu the cali demon stands for the same : corruption-lies-greed, and the satya (age of shiva i think) stands for wisdom and too the end of lies)
which is what i meant by 'would require a shift to the mayan mindset' -> there's no secrets on a blockchain, its open for everyone to see, its read only, so it can't be altered after the fact (in theory - so far) so the lack of privacy we clearly already suffer from, look at even Zuck Prime standing before congress at the moment) would go both ways, IF government and megacorp adopted it to the fullest, there would be no hidden papers, no secret files, no fake bank accounts with slush money because it would all be visible to whoever would watch and therein lies the question, if government is to adopt it, is the populace willing to give up the 'illusion' of privacy it still keeps. As to the potential of it all, i don't think anyone knows for sure and it might just as well be proven to be completely hackable and unsafe ten years from now but
if you live by the crystal ball then not much will get done because no one will take risks
so the issue would once more be choice i suppose, something big gov doesnt like to give