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

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[–] mistermodal@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Sigh, still on the Julian Assange-level shit. Someone tell them about the Silk Road? Whatever, if payment somehow doesn't go through, they have the guns.

[–] gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

what does the silk road have to do with anything.

[–] mistermodal@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

I'm so happy you asked, @\phantom_computers, you see, many who participated in the online drug market Silk Road & its reiterations have made the same assumptions about crypto. However, they lacked the leverage of a missile campaign, so the US feds clawed back much of the straggler coins over the years. Not anonymous etc at all