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Iran says ships passing through Strait of Hormuz must pay with Bitcoin (thehill.com)

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[–] dRLY@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Same here. Though I would imagine the real people benefiting would be people holding Bitcoin. Especially if true, since shit would jump the price massively while in effect.

[–] Mubelotix@jlai.lu 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Not really, 2M$ per ship isn't much compared with the size of Bitcoin 1410000M$

[–] racoon@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago

So all the countries should use BTC instead of USD, then