{"id":31126,"date":"2020-11-02T18:01:06","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T16:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=31126"},"modified":"2025-08-28T02:08:54","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T23:08:54","slug":"venezuelas-patria-payment-platform-to-add-support-for-bitcoin-and-litecoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/venezuelas-patria-payment-platform-to-add-support-for-bitcoin-and-litecoin\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela&#8217;s Patria payment platform to add support for Bitcoin and Litecoin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The authorities in Venezuela announced an update to the national payment platform Patria. One of the key changes is the support for Bitcoin and Litecoin wallets, <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.patria.org.ve\/actualizacion-remesas-intercambio-monederos-criptoactivos-bitcoin-litecoin-petro\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">it says<\/a> in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The new features will appear after the addition of the corresponding trading pairs for exchange into the national cryptocurrency. A fee will be charged for all transactions using Bitcoin, Litecoin or El Petro.<\/p>\n<p>During the testing phase, some features will be rolled out to a limited number of users. The authorities hope this will enable Venezuelans to officially receive transfers in digital assets.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe Patria platform will gradually connect these and other services,\u201d say the developers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Earlier, in September, President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/venezuela-to-expand-use-of-cryptocurrencies-to-bypass-sanctions\">presented<\/a> a bill expanding the use of El Petro and other cryptocurrencies in domestic and foreign trade. With it, the Venezuelan authorities hoped to circumvent U.S. sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog updates on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forkloglive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog FEED<\/a> \u2014 the full feed of news, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The authorities in Venezuela announced an update to the national payment platform Patria. One of the key changes is the support for Bitcoin and Litecoin wallets, it says in the statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18,1239,209,1240],"class_list":["post-31126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bitcoin","tag-el-petro","tag-litecoin","tag-venezuela-cryptocurrency-market"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"18","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31128,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31126\/revisions\/31128"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}