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.

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Sounds like we need to introduce the good people of Iran to nostr:npub1sqn6rpml88nq8khuvvneuqztfmvalpsarr8grkwy837hzdw63ajs6t5net

Everyone is a millionaire !

(In Rials 😅)

Already an underground crypto/stablecoin market is forming

How bad is internet censorship/surveillance there?

super interesting

thanks for sharing!

Damn. Eventually this will happen to every fiat currency.

Good to see you here Sina.

Thanks, Alex

also, all Iranian exchanges have disabled lightning withdrawal of bitcoin and they charge a fee of ~50,000 sat for on-chain withdrawals.

Bitcoin is hope for Iran.

If you can't get BTC and you can't get USD/Stablecoins, what are people doing? Swapping out for neighbouring currencies and then into USD? I guess it's time to buy some ASICS

yeah believe it or not some people are posting p2p trade ads

I could not see the Iranian Rial in Robosats. How is this on other p2p exchanges?

nostr:npub1mftv2j67vayavkks8rqev3u8jjhefe86tf80msstfxvpunk9vmps6prkl3 fixes this?

Also Nostr is kinda underappreciated coordination "mechanism" for p2p trades.

is there a reason people cannot use bisq?

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 nostr:nprofile1qqst4qyeqenw7zm0fwjsty68h6cnys5jre2xd8ngqpjv5a2j26s78fspzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujucm0d9hx7uewd9hj75a0pev. Then make sure this link gets spread a lot.

Is there any good tutorials on Robosats and similar tools?

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.

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.

https://obtaining-selling-bitcoin.netlify.app/

Can they get their bitcoin out of the exchange or do they have restrictions?

"Hopeless" is the word.

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