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Presumably these are lightning invoices, which can resolve in milliseconds.
Is there a limit on how much the lightning network can handle? Those are pretty large transactions.
I imagine the seconds to pay won't be true - if they are exchanging emails and inspecting boats it's going to be an hours to days long process.
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Honestly, it’s a good counter to get both sides of the coin. At the moment you’ll find BBC, CNN, NYT et al on one end and Al Jazeera on the other. I also look at DW for a more balanced approach. Don’t consume from one camp!
Al Jazeera is a private news organization mostly funded by the state of Qatar. It is not "the other side of the coin". Qatar is very much on the US side, and opposite to Iran. Their reporting is fine, and I typically find it more informative than the US news sources. But let's not pretend you are getting the Iranian side of the deal here. Particularly, my favorite news sources for the war is, oddly enough, FT
It is interesting in several different ways, because I was speculating on how it is being done before current cease fire. Everything seemed to be point to Yuan ( or other non-USD currencies ), which then are more easily settled by vessel owners and likely buried under some non-descript names like fees to be , maybe, questioned later its all done. edit: And it seems I was wrong despite it being my initial thought in t…
It's a sad indictment of the RMB that Iran would rather use BTC for bypassing US sanctions.
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No? Sources? It's possible that Qatar's government has some editorial control over the Arabic content, but my understanding is that the English operations are separate.
It's the same company, English operations can't be separate. https://factually.co/fact-checks/media/should-i-trust-al-jaz... https://apnews.com/article/b39b94d6847f4ee6acafd6ad2da7e963
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Another possibility is that what's left of the regime has been given a certain time to flee and thus are plotting their exit and trying to pocket every last cent of wealth to take with them before they go into exile.
Are you talking about the US or Iran here? You might be talking about Israel too. I truly cannot say.
That's not the surprising thing, though. The interesting thing here is that my comments are slowly being erased, censored, hidden from view. Seems that Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (47 U.S.C. § 230) really needs to be re-examined since its main function is to protect online forums from liability for third-party posts and allows voluntary content moderation rules. Makes me want to run for office just to call attention to and fix this issue.
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As best I can tell, the Iranian regime and Sharif both said that they ceasefire included a cease to strikes on Lebanon, Netanyahu explicitly said that it did not, and the Trump admin, Lebanon, and Hezbollah have not yet commented either way. Links to Pakistan and Israel statements here: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/8/us-iran-ceasefire-de...
Lebanon has also said that the ceasefire doesn't apply to Hezbollah, since they insist that both them and Israel are at war with Hezbollah, not with each other. The only parties that say it does are Hezbollah and Pakistan. Also, I really wouldn't suggest using aljazeera.
Yeah, I agree - I have the same objections to ajazeera that I have to RT, CNN, Fox News, NYT, etc. - they are each overwhelming pressure from controlling corporations and states that they can't shine light where it needs to be shone.
But in this case, I was really only pasting them for links to the statements by Pakistan and Iran, which I do trust them to link / quote faithfully. It wasn't meant as an endorsement of their editorial or news-gathering quality.
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Probably for the actual innocent people who live in Israel , yes
Israel is a modern day Nazi Germany. I wouldn't call anyone there over the age of 18 "innocent".
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Is there a limit on how much the lightning network can handle? Those are pretty large transactions.
Transaction fees are based on the complexity of the inputs/outputs , not the value transacted. You are literally paying for the minimum amount of data necessary to prove you own the funded sending-address, paying to write those hashes and amounts into the blockchain . The institution handling this offchaing lightning branch can implement fees in whatever structure you agree to transact, including percentage based . L…
Not on the lightning network. Fees are used to incentivize or disincentivize routes across channels.
> The institution handling this offchaing lightning branch can implement fees in whatever structure you agree to transact, including percentage based.
No institution is needed. Even if one is used as an intermediary, when using lightning non-custodially, the economics of lightning are such that fees are determined by the nodes in the payer's desired route. If it's a custodial transfer from one user to another, no routes are needed.
”Hosseini said that each tanker must email authorities about its cargo, after which Iran will inform them of the toll to be paid in digital currencies. “He said that the tariff is $1 per barrel of oil, adding that empty tankers can pass freely. “‘Once the email arrives and Iran completes its assessment, vessels are given a few seconds to pay in bitcoin, ensuring they can’t be traced or confiscated due to sanctions,’…
Cannot get to the article, so: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/iran-warns-tankers-they... What is to stop the ships from lying ? I wonder if Iran will do spot check of some ships to prevent this. And will boarding ships cause Trump to have yet another breakdown ?
Public and observable information makes it trivial to make high-accuracy assessments about the veracity of the claim.
And $2m is sufficient budget to finance spot checks, especially given you'd have to apply them to an exceedingly small percentage of ships. A year salary of an average Iranian police guard is about 5k, for context.
Plus you can create a scenario where fraud being detected is prohibitively expensive, and may even result in the captain being imprisoned in Iran. I wouldn't expect a lot of lies.
Oh, that's why Bitcoin is going up suddenly now hey???