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Iran demands Bitcoin fees for ships passing Hormuz during ceasefire

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Re: Iran demands Bitcoin fees for ships passing Hormuz during ceasefire

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A "few seconds" to pay in bitcoin? So the captain is supposed to be watching for a response via email with his finger hovering over the pay button? Is the recipient address static? Surely they would use unique payment addresses if they have any hope of obfuscating payments. This all sounds more like a TV show script than an actual thought-out plan to me.

Presumably these are lightning invoices, which can resolve in milliseconds.

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Isn't it broken with Israel continuing their war against Lebanon?

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Iran stated that it needed to be. I know Israel/US said it isnt, but that isnt how a ceasefire works. All sides actually have to agree to the terms of a ceasefire to have a ceasefire.

https://www.axios.com/2026/04/08/lebanon-attacks-israel-iran...

Re: Iran demands Bitcoin fees for ships passing Hormuz during ceasefire

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post #53

I think this war will be the moment that historians mark as the death of Pax Americana. The US failed to change the Iranian regime, failed to open the strait, and now a previously international waterway will be tolled in a currency other than the dollar. I wish it need not have happened in my time

I’d say there is a credible case for saying the vote for 2nd round of trump was the turning point. By that point is was already pretty well established that he isn’t fit yet that’s what the public wanted.

The democrats deserve a fair share of the blame for that just for their having created and maintained the two-party duopoly along with the Republicans. At the very least its not the voters fault if the only viable alternative to the Republicans is constantly rigging (or in this case straight-up bypassing) their own primaries to put corrupt party insiders at the forefront.

Re: Iran demands Bitcoin fees for ships passing Hormuz during ceasefire

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post #56

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Isn't it broken with Israel continuing their war against Lebanon?

Definitively if they agreed to it as part of the ceasefire. What did each part actually agree to when they agreed to a ceasefire? There doesn't seem to be much concrete information about that part.

I think Trump and the Iranians agreed to two different ceasefires and now both pretend they won.

Re: Iran demands Bitcoin fees for ships passing Hormuz during ceasefire

#145

A "few seconds" to pay in bitcoin? So the captain is supposed to be watching for a response via email with his finger hovering over the pay button? Is the recipient address static? Surely they would use unique payment addresses if they have any hope of obfuscating payments. This all sounds more like a TV show script than an actual thought-out plan to me.

> So the captain is supposed to be watching for a response via email with his finger hovering over the pay button?

no, mate

Re: Iran demands Bitcoin fees for ships passing Hormuz during ceasefire

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Isn't it broken with Israel continuing their war against Lebanon?

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Pakistan, the mediator of the agreement, declared that a ceasefire in Lebanon was part of the agreement when the agreement was announced:

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/what-us-iran-isra...

>Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif announced the ceasefire between Iran and the United States on X, saying the two sides agreed to an immediate ceasefire everywhere, including Lebanon, where Israel launched strikes.

This suggests that either the Americans are lying or they did not read the agreement carefully before signing. Either way I don't think it's a good look for the United States.

The US has plenty of ability to force Israel to stop its invasion of Lebanon and it has done similar things twice before by economic means. All parties to the agreement are aware of this.

Re: Iran demands Bitcoin fees for ships passing Hormuz during ceasefire

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Feels like the Trump / Binance situation is under appreciated at the moment...

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/technology/binance-employ...

> People in Iran had gained access to more than 1,500 accounts on the Binance platform over the previous year. About $1.7 billion had flowed from two Binance accounts to Iranian entities with links to terrorist groups, a possible violation of global sanctions. And one of those accounts belonged to a Binance vendor.

> After uncovering the transactions, the investigators reported them to top executives, according to company records and other documents reviewed by The New York Times.

> Within weeks, Binance fired or suspended at least four employees involved in the investigation, according to the documents and three people with knowledge of the situation. The company cited issues such as “violations of company protocol” related to the handling of client data.

[..]

> But internal warnings about the Iranian transactions surfaced last year, in the months before President Trump granted a pardon to Binance’s founder, Changpeng Zhao, who had spent four months in federal prison in 2024 for his role in the firm’s crimes. The Trump family’s crypto start-up, World Liberty Financial, has forged close business ties with Binance, and Mr. Zhao was a guest this month at a conference at Mar-a-Lago, Mr. Trump’s club in Palm Beach, Fla.

Re: Iran demands Bitcoin fees for ships passing Hormuz during ceasefire

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Isn't it broken with Israel continuing their war against Lebanon?

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reglardless if it was, it was an agreement with the US who can be convinced with money to stop the bombs. Israel is a different beast. they will only accept death as payment.

and yes because Iran does include it in their terms it.means US now gets to fight Israel.with diplomacy :') again.

Re: Iran demands Bitcoin fees for ships passing Hormuz during ceasefire

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post #94

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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.

I've found Al Jazeera's (English) coverage of the region to be informative. YMMV.

Out of curiosity, which news sources do you recommend/advocate for covering the middle east?
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