I'm having difficulty in understanding exactly what he has done in the past few years. Reports seem to be ambivalent. Here is a comment by Mahyar Tousi, who is a Persian living in England, and with family in Iran.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9irlgzHmvU

Surely it depends on the service. I'm thinking of reviving my Fit to Talk English project for new non-English speaking members. There isn't much point in posting a thread in the services section, as it is unlikely to be visited by new members. I am not multi-lingual, so I can't posr it in any of the local boards. This is why I have used the beginners board in the past.

I agree that commercial services should be posted in the suggested boards though.

It seems that my OP was based on a misunderstanding. As somebody pointed out,the publicised pst is based on the "official" rate of exchange, which is only available to an elite group. The everyday exchange rate is much closer to the globalrate. This video from Altcoin Daily gives an explanation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWYQajKww9A&t=495s

There is an interesting report towards the end of the video. It woud seem that Burger King is accepting Bitcoin in 40 of its branches in Venezuela. This could be a trend in countries with economic problems.

Bitcoin isn't dependent on the Internet, it is dependent on the inter communication between nodes. There are already alternatives being tested. Software controlled radio, and LoRa are two of them. At the current levels of development, they aren't really viable, but technology tends to advance, and I'm sure they will become a part of Bitcoin's future. Bitcoin is pretty robust, and a mix of Internet and LoRa will be viable, and probably won't require much of a coding addition.

Holding Bitcoin, gold and silver coins won't help you if you are nuked. However, if your economy tanks, or the US decides to sanction your country, then having made good prepping plans can help you through the transition.

It is the US that is trying to go to war with Iran. This latest even is an act of war by the US, and is not based on any proven action by Iran.

I should have read the small print. If you elect to buy Bitcoin,then there is no blockchain record of your purchase. As has been pointed out, it just appears to be s means of speculating on price movements, and is substantially inferior to an account with an an exchange such as CoinBase in my opinion.

He wasn't the head of the military. He was the long term head of a covert operations division of the military, and had no executive powers over national military decisions. He was also the leader of the attacks on ISIS and Daish - the terrorists groups promoted and armed by John Bolton, and the US.

Is that true? I thought that he was the public head of a covert operations section, and not that important. They seem to have replaced him pretty quickly, and expanded the department, so it looks as if once again the US has shot itself in the foot. It was an orchestrated move according to John Bolton, and not the preemptive strike that the media reports. In fact it was really the murder of a diplomat attending a planned and well reported meeting in a foreign sovereign state, and many see it as yet another example of US terrorism.

Apparently the price has trebled on the local Bitcoins market. So is it rich people trying to preserve their wealth, or is it people using it for everyday purchases? Mohammad Reza Pourebrahimi, chairman of Iran’s economic commission, has stated that more than $2.5 billion has been transferred out of the country via Bitcoin. Will this be the primary function of Bitcoin as we creep towards World War 3?

All of the Bitcoin that will ever exist were created with the genesis block. This means that the contribution for the block rewards are similar to a HODLer opening his wallet, except that there doesn't have to be a buyer, as they are being given away. In theory that should drive down the price, but it seems that it increases the availability and interest, and that increases the price. We seem to be going through an accumulation phase at the moment, and a reduction in the additions to the circulating supply could result in a price increase, and this could lead to an increase in the contents of HODL wallets. There is also a massive increase in the price of Bitcoin in Iran, and this could give an indication of future price trends.

I think that on balance, the halving has been factored into most calculations, and is unlikely to be a major factor in determining future [rice movements in the medium term. It does provide a great topic for FUD and manipulation though.

I'm coming to the conclusion that it is best to invest surplus cash on things that will improve the quality of my life, and extend my healthy life span. I'm no longer interested in becoming the richest, I want to be the oldest.

The launch of the new Ziglu bank is scheduled to start in the next few months.
https://www.ziglu.io/

Ir is being started by an ex Barclays exec, and a long term banker. It is only in the UK, but it will allow customers to hold multi-currency accounts, including a variety of fiat, and also Bitcoin. Funds can be transferred between accounts at minimal cost ( so they say ).

Doesn't Samoa have the best and deepest harbour in the South Pacific? It's probably the military industrial elite trying to kill off the population with their toxic vaccines.

There will always be people making predictions based on misunderstandings, misconceptions, and attempts to manipulate public opinion. I predict that the number of predictions predicting the price changes in Bitcoin. I liked the one that stated that the tightening of the mining difficulty ribbon indicates that the price of Bitcoin will move - either up or down, unless the miners consolidate, and the price moves sideways. I'm basing all my investments on that prediction.

I've come to the conclusion that the DT system is just there to try to block some sig spammers, and bad bounty programmes. For those of us who don't have these as a part of out lives, I'm not sure how we can use the system.

This is exactly what I was going to suggest. It shouldn't be too difficult to implement. The only problem would be a downvoter being removed from DT1, but that is probably a minor consideration.

Everybody has the right to use the ignore button, and to fail to open threads that appear to be destructive. I have no idea about these battles, and I have no wish to learn about them.

My point was not whether it could be used for peer to peer transactions - gold bars can be used for that. I was suggesting that you need to use computer systems that may be beyond the poor, or to use 3rd party pseudo banking services, This means we are creeping back to centralised control with the services. It also seems that Bitcoin is being collected by the rich, or at least those with spare cash to build an investment portfolio. All this moves it away from the people for daily use.

I doubt if the halving itself will make any difference, as everybody knows about it. What it will do is to provide a topic for the FUDsters, and manipulators to use, and their actions will be the cause of any price movements.

I'm expecting governments and institutions to start mining operations, if they aren't already. This will give them a chance to prioritise their transactions and conceal their actions via wallet manipulations.