Venezuela appears to be ripping a page from China’s playbook on how to control its citizens. The head of support at blockchain startup Purse.io says Venezuela is using its government-issued Petro cryptocurrency to create a system where merchants lose, government officials gain and citizens are tracked. Eduardo Gómez, a native Venezuelan whose crypto platform Purse […]The post Venezuela Reportedly Combines Database With Mobile Payment System to Track Citizens’ Transactions appeared first on The Daily Hodl.