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Venezuelan government is providing a free cryptocurrency training course for citizens

  • Venezuelan government to offer free cryptocurrency training.
  • Crypto course comes after release of Petro coin.

The Venezuelan government is now offering a course to teach citizens how to buy, sell and mine cryptocurrencies, the course will also cover all to know about the nation’s new oil-back currency, Petro. The training centre is based in its capital city, Caracas, according to local television, Telesur TV.

One of the new teachers at the new base for cryptocurrency training, Carmen Salvador, was quoted saying, a completely free training,” noting that “in any international market a trading course cost more than $500 to $800.”

As a reminder, this comes on the back of the country created its own cryptocurrency, which is oil backed, known as Petro. On the first day of the Petro sale, they reported to have raised an outstanding $735 million.

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