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Could the US Have Struck Iran Over Bitcoin? Nobody Is Talking About This! · Simply Bitcoin

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  Bitcoin just hit $75,000. We are back.
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  Baby, and I need to ask you something that some social media
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  platforms won't let me ask did the United States strike Iran,
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  at least in part, because of Bitcoin?
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  Now before you call me crazy, hear me out.
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  Before this conflict started, Iran was running 427,000 Bitcoin
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  mining rigs, mining each coin for $1320 and selling it for
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  $70,000 every single day, using cheap sanctioned energy to
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  produce money the US Treasury couldn't touch, couldn't freeze,
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  and couldn't stop. Then the US acted, and Iran's
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  Bitcoin mining capacity dropped 77% in a single quarter.
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  Coincidence. Maybe, but I found a clip that
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  made me think twice. And once you see the full
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  picture, the strategic reserve, the mining numbers, the Strait
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  of Hormuz toll, the $75,000 price, you're going to have a
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  hard time calling it at random. Welcome back to Satoshi.
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  Let's get into it. Let's start with the headline
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  number because it matters to everything that follows.
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  And let's be real, you partly clicked on this video because of
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  the price. So Bitcoin hit $75,000 this
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  week. That's a significant level given
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  that everyone and their mother has said that we're in a bear
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  market. It's the highest price since the
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  October 2025 all time high run. And it comes on the back of the
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  US Iran ceasefire announcement. When the ceasefire was declared,
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  Bitcoin pumped over 5% in hours, from around 69,800 to 72,500 on
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  the announcement, then continued climbing towards 75,000 as the
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  week progressed. The narrative we've been
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  tracking for weeks is playing out in real time.
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  Bitcoin held at 1.5% down when the SMP dropped 10%.
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  Bitcoin pumped when peace was announced.
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  Not gold, not the SMP MP, but Bitcoin.
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  Sailor said the four year cycle is dead and price is driven by
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  capital flows and the capital is flowing.
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  For the first time since the October highs.
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  There's genuine momentum on the chart.
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  But now let me tell you why I think that this price move is
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  about a lot more than a ceasefire.
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  Here's the part of the story that almost nobody in mainstream
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  media has connected properly. Before this conflict, Iran had
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  built one of the most sophisticated Bitcoin mining
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  operations in the world. We're talking about 427,000
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  active mining rigs, a hash rate of roughly 9 EXA hashes per
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  second between 6 and 8% of the global Bitcoin network.
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  That's huge. I always call it massive,
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  sometimes they say. Huge.
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  And here's why that matters. In Iran, energy costs make
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  mining Bitcoin extraordinarily cheap.
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  According to the Trading View and Coin Pedia, the cost of
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  mining one Bitcoin in Iran was just 1320 dollars, $1320 to
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  $70,000 today and $126,000 at the all time high.
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  That spread $1320 cost $70,000. Revenue is a essentially a money
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  printer, but unlike A literal money printer, you can't
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  sanction Bitcoin, you can't freeze it, you can't intercept
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  it. Once Iran mined, they could sell
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  it anywhere in the world and convert it to any currency and
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  the US couldn't do a thing about it.
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  What are you going to do? Chain Analysis confirmed in
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  their 2026 Crypto Crime Report that state driven sanction
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  evasion volume surged 694% in 2025 with Iran as one of the
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  primary actors. Coin Desk reported in February
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  2026 that Iran had built a $7.8 billion crypto shadow economy
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  using state sponsored Bitcoin mining and sable coins to bypass
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  the dollar. This wasn't a side hustle.
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  This was infrastructure. Iran had built a parallel
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  financial system powered by Bitcoin and cheap energy,
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  specifically designed to make U.S. sanctions irrelevant.
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  And then the US acted, and within one quarter, Iran's
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  Bitcoin hash rate collapsed from 77%, from 9 EXA hashes down to
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  two. The $427,000 mining rigs gone or
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  offline. The $340 million in daily mining
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  revenue EVAP operated. The global Bitcoin network
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  itself felt it. The total hash rate dropped
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  around 1004 EXA hashes in Q2. I want to play you this clip
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  from Newsmax. Carl Higbee.
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  No BS, no sugar coating. Making the case for why the
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  military action in Iran was the right call and why, if the
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  mission is finished, the US will be better for it.
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  Also, you know how Trump keeps saying that there's going to be
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  this Bitcoin reserve? Iran was one of the top Bitcoin
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  miners in the world due to their subsidized energy program.
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  They were trading on Bitcoin to avoid other sanctions too, just
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  like how they're demanding it in tolls through the Strait of
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  Hormuz. But since Trump's started this
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  bombing campaign, 77% of their crypto mining has stopped, which
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  in conjunction to the Clarity Act will be an explosion in the
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  crypto sphere, literally making millionaires overnight and
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  potentially generating enough revenue to partially offset our
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  national debt. It's not just a war with Iran.
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  Sure they can't get a new but there are so many moving parts
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  here. This is why I keep telling you
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  just guys like I'm putting my neck out there by supporting
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  this. I, I, I realize that and I'm in
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  like, I'm not, I'm not BS ING you.
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  Like just please hold out a little bit longer as somebody
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  who went to war and saw some of these things, like you got to
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  finish the job. Look, we're in it.
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  And if we ditch the mission now, it's going to be way worse.
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  Long term. Now, Carl isn't talking about
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  Bitcoin here. He's making a broader
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  geopolitical case. But watch it with what you know
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  now about Iran's mining operation in the back of your
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  mind, because you layer in the Bitcoin data, the 427,000 rigs,
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  the $1320 mining cost, the $7.8 billion shadow economy, the 6 to
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  8% of global hash rate, and the question becomes a lot more
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  interesting. Here's the sequence of events
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  that I want you to sit with. Trump announces the US strategic
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  Bitcoin reserve. America officially declares
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  Bitcoin a national strategic asset worth accumulating.
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  Weeks later, the US and Israel act against Iran's energy and
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  military infrastructure. Iran's Bitcoin mining capacity
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  collapses 77% in a single quarter.
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  Iran then pivots and instead of mining Bitcoin, it starts
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  charging Bitcoin tolls at the Strait of Hormuz and Bitcoin
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  hits 75,000. Now here's the question that I
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  keep coming back to. If you're the US government and
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  you've just declared Bitcoin a strategic national asset, the
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  last thing you want is a heavily sanctioned adversary controlling
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  6 to 8% of the entire Bitcoin network, mining it for $1320 a
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  coin. I'm never going to stop saying
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  that number because that's just like beyond wild to me.
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  And using it to make your sanctions completely irrelevant.
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  Iran wasn't just evading sanctions, it was doing it with
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  Bitcoin, the same asset that the US just decided it wants to
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  accumulate. That's not just an economic
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  threat, but a direct conflict of strategic interests.
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  Did the US factor Bitcoin into this decision?
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  I don't know if I had to put on my tinfoil hat on, I would
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  question it at the very least. And it is a question that
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  deserves to be asked. And I think that the fact that
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  it's not being asked anywhere in mainstream media itself is
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  interesting, probably because people still see Bitcoin as this
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  shadowy thing and not a central player.
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  But I feel like that's about to change really soon.
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  And look wherever the geopolitical context, one thing
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  Here's what makes the story even more extraordinary.
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  When Iran's mining capacity was taken out, they didn't give up
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  on Bitcoin. They pivoted.
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  Instead of producing Bitcoin through mining, Iran started
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  taxing its movement. The Strait of Hormuz toll
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  $2,000,000 per ship, payable in Bitcoin is Iran's response to
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  losing their mining infrastructure.
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  They couldn't mine it anymore, so they put a toll booth on the
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  most important oil shipping lane in the world and demanded
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  payment in the one asset that nobody could take away.
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  The numbers are staggering at $2,000,000 per ship.
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  With 130 ships per day, that's 3611 Bitcoin per day in
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  potential revenue. The entire global network, just
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  so you have an idea, only mines 450 Bitcoin per day.
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  Iran went from mining a fraction of the daily supply to
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  potentially collecting the daily mine supply just in tolls.
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  And the Wall Street Journal confirmed this isn't a temporary
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  wartime measure. Their headline Iran $7.8 billion
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  crypto economy finds a new way to grow after ceasefire After
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  the ceasefire, permanent infrastructure.
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  Nick Zabo, one of the architects of the concept of digital money.
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  Put it simply, Iran is no longer effectively under sanctions.
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  Do try to keep up with events. Oh, as bad as the US took out
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  Iran's Bitcoin mining, Iran found a way to use Bitcoin
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  anyway. So that's not a defeat to
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  Bitcoin. Again, that just proves the
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  concept. It proves that this is the
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  future. OK, now let me zoom out as
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  always and tell you what I think this all adds up to.
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  We're in a world where Bitcoin is no longer just a financial
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  asset. It is now officially a
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  geopolitical tool, a monetary weapon, a strategic reserve, a
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  sanctions evasion mechanism, a toll booth currency, all
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  simultaneously. And the US recognizes this.
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  And they announced the strategic Bitcoin reserve, officially
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  declaring it a national strategic asset.
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  Iran recognized this and built a $7.8 billion mining
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  infrastructure to avoid those sanctions.
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  And when that infrastructure was disrupted, Iran pivoted to using
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  Bitcoin as a toll currency for global oil trade.
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  Every major power is now making moves around Bitcoin.
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  Not a theory or any other shit coin, but Bitcoin specifically
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  because it's the only one with a fixed supply, No issuer, no
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  government backing, no off switch.
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  And this is what Bitcoin was designed for.
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  Not as a tech stock, not as a speculative asset.
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  As a monetary network that operates outside any single
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  government's control and that therefore becomes indispensable
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  to every government simultaneously.
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  It's in their best interest to get some and Bitcoin at $75,000
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  OK? I started this episode with a
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  Iran partly because of Bitcoin? I still don't have a definitive
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  answer, although I'd love to hear yours after knowing all of
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  this information. But what I do know is this.
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  The sequence of events, The strategic reserve, the conflict,
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  the 77% hash rate collapse, The Strait of Hormuz told the 75K
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  price. That sequence tells a story
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  about a world where Bitcoin has become too strategically
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  important to ignore. For 15 years, Bitcoiners said
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  that this day would come, the day when governments couldn't
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  pretend that Bitcoin didn't matter.
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  The day when it showed up in foreign policy decisions and
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  geopolitical calculations and national reserve strategies.
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  That day is here, and we're watching it unfold in real time.
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