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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 mo...

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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 chokepoint.

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Bitcoin is showing up inside the Market Structure theme, so this story is worth tracking for follow-through rather than treating it as a one-off headline.

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