{"id":16836,"date":"2026-04-16T08:05:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T15:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/?p=16836"},"modified":"2026-04-16T08:20:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T15:20:49","slug":"could-the-us-have-struck-iran-over-bitcoin-nobody-is-talking-about-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/2026\/04\/16\/could-the-us-have-struck-iran-over-bitcoin-nobody-is-talking-about-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Could the US Have Struck Iran Over Bitcoin? Nobody Is Talking About This!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I <a href=\"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/2026\/04\/12\/trump-begins-blockade-of-hormuz-strait-says-iran-will-not-be-allowed-to-profit-from-extortion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">theorized that the US blockade was to thwart Iran collecting tolls in Bitcoin<\/a> which would have affected the price, as well as losing 77% of their <a href=\"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/2025\/09\/12\/the-case-for-the-only-cryptocurrency-of-value-bitcoin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bitcoin<\/a> mining capacity in the war. And nobody was really covering it. Then Simply Bitcoin came out with this podcast which covered it and mentioned that it couldn&#8217;t be addressed on social media. And this episode is not up on YouTube as I had to find the video on Rumble. And it certainly does appear to be one part of the Iran war. What would really shine a light on what&#8217;s going on is if Israel or the US targeted Iran&#8217;s Bitcoin mining equipment with bombs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<script>!function(r,u,m,b,l,e){r._Rumble=b,r[b]||(r[b]=function(){(r[b]._=r[b]._||[]).push(arguments);if(r[b]._.length==1){l=u.createElement(m),e=u.getElementsByTagName(m)[0],l.async=1,l.src=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/embedJS\/u48ihyt\"+(arguments[1].video?'.'+arguments[1].video:'')+\"\/?url=\"+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+\"&args=\"+encodeURIComponent(JSON.stringify([].slice.apply(arguments))),e.parentNode.insertBefore(l,e)}})}(window, document, \"script\", \"Rumble\");<\/script>\n\n<div id=\"rumble_v76ckt4\"><\/div>\n<script>\nRumble(\"play\", {\"video\":\"v76ckt4\",\"div\":\"rumble_v76ckt4\"});<\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I theorized that the US blockade was to thwart Iran collecting tolls in Bitcoin which would have affected the price, as well as losing 77% of their Bitcoin mining capacity in the war. And nobody was really covering it. Then Simply Bitcoin came out with this podcast which covered it and mentioned that it couldn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","category-world"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Jason","author_link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/author\/jturning\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16836"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16839,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16836\/revisions\/16839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}