Venezuelans Forced to Use Petro Cryptocurrency to Cover Passport Fees

Imagine buying your passport with bitcoin, ether or XRP. It would be hard, right? You’d have to figure out the exact percentage of the coins to account for cents and uneven numbers, and even then, there’d be no guarantees that everything was correct. The fact is that cryptocurrency is not fully ready to be used for daily purchases, but in Venezuela, citizens are being forced to utilize the highly-controversial petro cryptocurrency to pay for their passport fees. In other words, if they’re looking to vacation or leave the country for any reason, they better get to know their crypto. More…