Iran’s Strait of Hormuz toll booth ran through a bitcoin exchange, U.S. says
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What CoinDesk reports
The U.S. Treasury sanctioned BitBank, a Tehran exchange it says moved hundreds of millions of dollars in bitcoin to the Revolutionary Guards and handled payments collected from ships buying passage through the world’s most important oil…
The immediate significance
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What remains unknown
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CoinDeskCurrent briefing Iran’s Strait of Hormuz toll booth ran through a bitcoin exchange, U.S. says
The U.S. Treasury sanctioned BitBank, a Tehran exchange it says moved hundreds of millions of dollars in bitcoin to the Revolutionary Guards and handled payments collected from ships buying passage through the world’s most important oil…
Decrypt Treasury Sanctions Crypto Exchange Behind Iran's Bitcoin Tolls on Hormuz Ships
OFAC says hundreds of millions of dollars in Bitcoin moved through BitBank to the Revolutionary Guards in two months.
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