Bitfinex Denies Listing Venezuela’s Petro Anytime Soon

[kreslik.news]

Bitfinex, the world’s biggest Bitcoin exchange by trading ‎volume, said it would not be updating its list of cryptocurrencies on offer to add Venezuela’s newly released cryptocurrency, the petro.‎

‎ In its blog post explaining the decision, Bitfinex‎ pointed to Donald Trump’s executive order which prohibits U.S. citizens from engaging in ‎transactions using the oil-backed digital currency.

Bitfinex‎ explained that as of the date of this statement, it had no “plans to include the PTR or similar tokens in the Bitfinex ‎trading platform.”

Bitfinex said that it would always consider elements such as liquidity and security when ‎evaluating possible inclusions. The popular crypto ... (read more)