Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 11 months ago
Authorities in Iran have closed down more than 8,000 underground facilities for cryptocurrency mining in the past three years, local media reported. Despite the government’s crackdown, illegal crypto mining continues to account for a serious amount o...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 11 months ago
Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi has called on the Central Bank of Iran to lay the groundwork necessary to ditch the U.S. dollar for bilateral trade settlements and to make the switch to use the Iranian real whenever possible. The Central Bank of Iran...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 11 months ago
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has condemned the current unipolar world order, emphasizing that Iran plans to join the BRICS group to help create a multipolar world. “Iran wants to have constructive relations with all states on the basis of common i...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 11 months ago
Authorities in Iran are taking steps to make crypto payments easier for companies importing goods in the sanctioned country. A dedicated platform has been established to allow local businesses to transfer cryptocurrency for the purpose of cross-borde...
More / Bitcoin Reddit - 1 year ago
Does anybody have (first-hand) experience in home mining in Iran? The power costs are incredibly low. I’ve only read that mining farms had to shutdown mining activities in 2021 because of ‘energy crisis’ but now it seems there are no restrictions. I’...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
A University of Tehran professor and member of Iran’s Presidential Delegation to China has stressed the importance of de-dollarization for the international community. “The dollar has been used as a weapon by the U.S. against different co...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Ali Shamkhani, secretary of the National Security Council of Iran, has stated that the recent bilateral cooperation efforts between his country and Russia are contributing to rendering U.S.-established sanctions useless at a global level. The officia...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
The pre-trial stage of the project to introduce a digital Iranian rial has been completed successfully, the country’s central bank announced. The authorities in Tehran plan to expand the use of the state-backed currency and integrate it into Iran’s p...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 1 year ago
Iran's central bank has completed a pre-pilot phase for its digital rial, according to an official statement by the Monetary and Banking Research Institute. The CBDC will align with the rules governing the national currency, the Iranian rial, and be...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
The Central Bank of Iran progresses with CBDC development in anticipation of a visit by the Bank of Russia’s governor Elvira Nabiullina. Iran is moving forward with it...
More / Bitcoin Reddit - 1 year ago
One of my supervisors at my job is Iranian. He recently said that his mother had purchased a VPN using Bitcoin and was then able to use WhatsApp and other social medias to contact him. The Iranian government has made social media and VPNs illegal. W...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Russia may issue a stablecoin backed by gold to use in international settlements, a high-ranking member of the Russian parliament has admitted. The matter has been discussed during a recent visit to Iran where officials have also signaled interest in...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Magazine - 1 year ago
With their newly-announced stablecoin experiment doomed to fail, Russia and Iran will soon learn Bitcoin is the solution that they want.This is an opinion editorial by Q Ghaemi, a stocks and bitcoin analyst and author of the Qweekly Update newsletter...
Bitcoin News / Google News Bitcoin - 1 year ago
After the Failure Of Their Stablecoin Experiment, Iran And Russia Will Inevitably Adopt Bitcoin& & Bitcoin Magazine
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Tehran and Moscow are discussing the possible launch of a stablecoin for international settlements, the Russian press revealed. In order to mint the gold-backed currency, however, authorities would need to first regulate crypto assets, a lawmaker not...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 year ago
To better enable international transactions, the governments of Russia and Iran are reportedly considering working together to develop a new stablecoin.
Iran is working with the Russian government to create a “token of the Persian Gulf region...
Cryptocoins News / CoinJournal - 1 year ago
Iran and Russia are reportedly eyeing a new stablecoin for cross-border trade, including in the Astrakhan special economic zone.
The stablecoin will be backed by gold, according to local Russian media outlet Vedomosti.
Both Iran and Russia are under...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 1 year ago
Iran and Russia are planning a gold-backed cryptocurrency. In Astrakhan, Russia began accepting Iranian goods, a stablecoin would function. Instead of utilizing dollars, rubles, or rials, the initiative would allow cross-border transactions. (Read Mo...