<oembed><type>rich</type><version>1.0</version><title>ภ๏รtг๏ภคยt wrote</title><author_name>ภ๏รtг๏ภคยt (npub1wl…zn8lu)</author_name><author_url>https://nostr.now/npub1wl89d7yazg500lehg08p45dj2jzhhyqg2erj067458e3wd30djns4zn8lu</author_url><provider_name>njump</provider_name><provider_url>https://nostr.now</provider_url><html>IRAN HAS BEEN SURVIVING ON BITCOIN — AND AMERICA KNOWS IT&#xA;&#xA;The U.S. froze Iran out of the dollar.&#xA;&#xA;Iran found a different currency.&#xA;&#xA;When Washington reimposed sanctions in 2018, Tehran didn&#39;t collapse. It adapted. &#xA;&#xA;By 2019, Iran officially recognized Bitcoin mining as a legitimate industry — and quietly handed the keys to the IRGC.&#xA;&#xA;Here is what that actually meant.&#xA;&#xA;Iran&#39;s electricity costs as low as $0.01 per kilowatt-hour. Cost to mine one Bitcoin, roughly $1,300. &#xA;&#xA;Bitcoin&#39;s market price? Tens of thousands of dollars. &#xA;&#xA;That margin is not a business. That is a money printing machine.&#xA;&#xA;By 2021, Iran controlled 7.5% of the entire global Bitcoin hashrate. Today it still ranks 5th in the world behind only the United States, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Canada.&#xA;&#xA;This was not a side hustle.&#xA;&#xA;Iran&#39;s crypto ecosystem hit $7.78 BILLION in 2025. As large as the GDP of some entire nations. The IRGC alone received over $3 BILLION through Bitcoin in a single year.&#xA;&#xA;A &#34;sanctioned&#34; military force moved $3 billion. Through Bitcoin.&#xA;&#xA;Read that again slowly.&#xA;&#xA;Now ask yourself, when Trump kept threatening to destroy Iran&#39;s power grid, people called it punishment. Analysts called it politics.&#xA;&#xA;It was neither.&#xA;&#xA;It was financial warfare.&#xA;&#xA;No power grid means no Bitcoin mining. No Bitcoin mining means no money for the IRGC. &#xA;&#xA;The bombs were not targeting civilians. They were targeting a balance sheet.&#xA;&#xA;The U.S. can freeze bank accounts. It cannot freeze electricity. It cannot ban mathematics. &#xA;&#xA;Iran found the gap between those two realities and moved billions of dollars through it for nearly a decade right under the nose of the most sophisticated financial surveillance system in the world.&#xA;&#xA;Here is the lesson I want you to sit with today.&#xA;&#xA;The most powerful financial move of the last decade was not made on Wall Street. &#xA;&#xA;It was not made by hedge funds or Ivy League economists. &#xA;&#xA;It was made by a sanctioned nation that looked at cheap energy, a censorship-resistant asset, and a broken global financial system — and connected the dots before anyone else did.&#xA;&#xA;The dollar is a weapon.&#xA;&#xA;Gold is protection.&#xA;&#xA;Bitcoin is the exit door.&#xA;&#xA;Governments have always controlled money. That is not a conspiracy theory. That is history. &#xA;&#xA;The only question is whether YOU will be ready when they decide your money is next.&#xA;&#xA;I have said it before. I will keep saying it.&#xA;&#xA;GOLD. SILVER. BITCOIN.&#xA;&#xA;Real assets. Outside their system. Beyond their reach.&#xA;&#xA;The poor and middle class save dollars. The rich save assets the government cannot print — or confiscate.</html></oembed>