Sina 21st's avatar
Sina 21st 0 years ago
The Iranian Government shuts down the fiat onramp to crypto exchanges in a hopeless attempt to stem currency collapse. The Iranian Rial is tanking and has fallen to a new historical low of 800K:1 USD YTD, it has depreciated by 37% against the USD. The government had placed various limits on purchases of USD, so people switched to crypto and stablecoins to protect their life savings. But in their latest move, the government has just closed IRR onramps to crypto exchanges (which as expected has led to an even larger currency fall). The story of currency collapse unfolds the same way every time. image

Replies (29)

also, all Iranian exchanges have disabled lightning withdrawal of bitcoin and they charge a fee of ~50,000 sat for on-chain withdrawals.
curt finch 's avatar
curt finch 0 years ago
is there a reason people cannot use bisq?
Hope for the best and plan for the worst. Thanks for sharing @Sina 21st
Sina 21st's avatar Sina 21st
The Iranian Government shuts down the fiat onramp to crypto exchanges in a hopeless attempt to stem currency collapse. The Iranian Rial is tanking and has fallen to a new historical low of 800K:1 USD YTD, it has depreciated by 37% against the USD. The government had placed various limits on purchases of USD, so people switched to crypto and stablecoins to protect their life savings. But in their latest move, the government has just closed IRR onramps to crypto exchanges (which as expected has led to an even larger currency fall). The story of currency collapse unfolds the same way every time. image
View quoted note →
Default avatar
Duvel 11 months ago
Thank you for informing. Perhaps it's an idea to create a one page site with links to tutorials (articles/video) how to pay with p2p like Robosats and others. This means they also need a Lightning wallet like @Mysterious Hamster. Then make sure this link gets spread a lot.
Default avatar
Duvel 11 months ago
Besides using other tools like peer to peer exchanges (non-regulated) another alternative is even better and simpler: buying and selling bitcoin for cash. I would recommend to only so this with people you trust. You could also do this with people you don't know. Then you need to use a peer to peer exchange to make sure everybody is incentived to act honestly otherwise they won't get their cash or bitcoin.
Default avatar
Duvel 11 months ago
Can they get their bitcoin out of the exchange or do they have restrictions?
Default avatar
Duvel 11 months ago
I could not see the Iranian Rial in Robosats. How is this on other p2p exchanges?
Default avatar
Duvel 11 months ago
I created a simple one page site with information on why and how to get your bitcoin from a crypto exchange, create your own Bitcoin wallet, how to acquire it and how to create and test your backup. Let me know your feedback and of people find it useful, information is missing, etc.
"Hopeless" is the word. Just enjoying the decline, no content besides - BECOME UNGOUVERNABLE
u32Luke's avatar
u32Luke 11 months ago
How bad is internet censorship/surveillance there?