I just saw a news headline in Aporrea:

"Venezuelan criptomercado continues its recovery, while the country comes out of the blackout"

See: https://www.aporrea.org/economia/n339632.html

I smiled assuming that in that news finally ! Some expert was going to talk about the Petro, the cryptocurrency created more than a year ago by Maduro and his government, and that in that news they were going to confirm that the Petro was really alive and active, and not invisible and dead as I had been thinking from his (supposed) creation.

I thought:

Could it be that I was wrong when --- long ago --- I concluded that the Petro was probably (is) a façade and a scam created by the Maduro government as an instrument to conceal something, and / or to divert attention while they , your collaborators, and the leaders of the Venezuelan opposition with whom you had been negotiating, get rich?

Could it really be that Petro now exists, and that it is a real part of the real market of electronic currencies, that people are really buying and selling it, that it can really be used as currency as Maduro had been promoting it, with the purpose of supposedly fixing our devastated economy?

Well ...

I supposed wrong.

That news (above) spoke about the health of several cryptocurrencies and the cryptocurrency market here in Venezuela, but he said absolutely nothing about Petro, even though Petro should be the most important cryptocurrency in the country since it was created by the government. more than a year ago.

But, no, nothing.

Yes sir, I assumed wrong, very bad.

I was wrong.

Then, I thought:

Could it be that I can find some other information that corroborates or supports my suspicions that the Petro does not really exist (in terms of its usefulness)?

Good ...

I found a story where they explain that last month (February 2019), a person launched the "Petro Challenge," where he offered $ 100 to the first person who could prove the real existence of Petro, but until now, apparently, nobody has won those $ 100

See: https://www.morocotacoin.com/02/2019/petrochallenge-reto-petro/

Well ...

If the Petro really existed ...

But really ...

Do not you think someone would have won that $ 100? the same day of the "Challenge" (challenge, competition), or the next day?

Hmmm ...

Could it be that Petro de Maduro really exists?

I do not think so.