<br /> \Venezuela’s leftist President Nicolas Maduro says a remote hamlet of 1,300 people in Venezuela is perched on the cutting edge of an innovation in cryptocurrency.<br />Located in an isolated savanna in the center of the country, Reuters reports that Atapirire is the only town in an area the government says is brimming with 5 billion barrels of petroleum. Venezuela has pledged those reserves as backing for a digital currency dubbed the “petro." Maduro launched the petro in February. <br />
