Iranial Rial collapses, Buy Bitcoin!

[rdluffy]

You know, I used to have a certain opinion about BTC and what my plan would be, but today I see things differently

There has been so much going on recently that I really see BTC as a form of protection. Even though there is volatility

Before, things seemed so far away, but situations in Venezuela, Turkey, Cuba, Nigeria, and other countries, and now in Iran, have opened my eyes to having BTC as a safeguard in case the worst happens in my country (Brazil), and mind you, the political situation here is terrible and getting worse every day

I hope I never have to use it, but I want to have that security
Fiat money is a potential weapon for the government against citizens who do not support it

[Sanitough]

Bitcoin is there to save them and they know the drill, look how bitcoin spike!



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[cryptomaniac_xxx]

Does it make sense to send a message like this to people who are in a life-threatening situation and do not yet have access to the internet (everything except satellite internet is turned-off)?

Besides, anyone who is in that country and owns BTC or another cryptocurrency can only look at their wallet because they can't do anything without the internet. In such situations, everything digital is worthless.

First of all, fuck the IRGC. These civilians deserve better and I hope one day these thugs and Khameni are driven out or made to stand trial for crimes against humanity.

Now, with cooler heads, Bitcoin will definitely not help them right now. They need their color revolution supported so that these poor souls actually get a shot at living a free life.

Might be very hard though to have revolution inside Iran without the help of "outside forces". In any case though, if others are looking on the prediction market, this is just one of them,


https://polymarket.com/event/khamenei-out-as-supreme-leader-of-iran-by-january-31

It might not help them right now, but Bitcoin definitely be considered the asset for failing regime.

[Natalim]

It might not help them right now, but Bitcoin definitely be considered the asset for failing regime.

No other asset can really do that for them. Bitcoin makes sense because it’s decentralized and fits exactly what they need, no government control.
As long as it’s not outright banned, it helps protect them from their fiat losing value.

That’s also why we saw Bitcoin pump hard on that country’s exchanges, and now it’s pushing the global market too, sitting around $94k. Honestly, a move back to $100k soon wouldn’t be surprising at all.

[Alphakilo]

It might not help them right now, but Bitcoin definitely be considered the asset for failing regime.

No other asset can really do that for them. Bitcoin makes sense because it’s decentralized and fits exactly what they need, no government control.
As long as it’s not outright banned, it helps protect them from their fiat losing value.

That’s also why we saw Bitcoin pump hard on that country’s exchanges, and now it’s pushing the global market too, sitting around $94k. Honestly, a move back to $100k soon wouldn’t be surprising at all.

We have Iran crying out for help from the U.S because of their situation and there's Maduro's case with Venezuela holding BTC and other crypto assets that could affect the current cryptocurrency market if the U.S lays hands on it and confiscate or seize it from their wallet.
While it is good advice to hold BTC in a country like Iran, I doubt it could worth much if they have network interruption or have businesses who don't accept it within the country when they need supplies in form of food or clothing or medication to survive these hard times.

[DubemIfedigbo001]

Hold fiat and be with liability, invest in bitcoin and have an asset, this is all about the future, there is no point wasting our time and money on what will amount to nothing after some time that devaluation, we should know how the effect of inflation has been dealing with fiat over time and this will always be, except we have an alternative to consider as we already have with bitcoin.

The US is preparing to attack the country since it has been reported that many protesters have been killed by government security forces. An attack will bring the currency to another all-time low. Bitcoin is a viable protection from the effects of the devastating situation. I hope this situation is handled through dialogue because Iranians have been subjected to untold hardship because of sanctions and other problems.

The US saying it is prepared to help IRAN secure freedom sounds really funny to me. It is a known fact that US sanctions played a major role in crippling Iran's economy and the sanctions were tightened by same Trump which saw it crumble even further. If he wants to help the people, he should start by lifting some sanctions that would improve the economy, I believe that is the best form of help the people need now and not devastating them more with a strike or invasion. Seems to me like he is more interested in ousting the leader than actually helping the people.

Bitcoin is the safe heaven in times like this, the currency would continue depreciating and more inflation would hit the economy. Sadly, people are even finding it very difficult to survive, talk less of investing into bitcoin currently. Only those who got into bitcoin before now would really have preserved their funds properly in their further declining economy.

[EFS]

The situation in Iran didn't emerge overnight. There has been a sharia system for many years and people there struggle even to breathe. Many of those who have the means come to Türkiye and feel more comfortable here. I'm sure most of the investors also bought Bitcoin here. No one trusts their country's currency naturally.
I hope Iran returns to democracy and people can live more freely again. Everyone can see how political Islam has made life a living hell for people.

[JiiBs]

If no one doesn't know the news[1] yet, just check this conversion of how much $1 in Iranian Rial and this is because of the protests happening there.

There's an absolute chaos there with the police against the protesters. And in result Iran's currency collapses that dictates its economy.

In terms of its currency and its value, we can learn from it that the fiat/currency of any country can collapse when chaos happens anytime.
This gives the idea of why people who doesn't hold Bitcoin yet needs to understand the importance of its scarcity and why people and even the biggest institutions are holding it now on.

There have never being a time when fiat served as a better means to save value. It’s always subject to inflation and its value would always drop over time, giving the extensive loans taken by each successive government of several nations for which they hardly settle them neither do they produce a lot to boost the economy.

Bitcoin gives a way to hedge over it but, we don’t need chaos to realize that.

[Son Of Blockchain (SOB)]

The situation in Iran didn't emerge overnight. There has been a sharia system for many years and people there struggle even to breathe. Many of those who have the means come to Türkiye and feel more comfortable here. I'm sure most of the investors also bought Bitcoin here. No one trusts their country's currency naturally.
I hope Iran returns to democracy and people can live more freely again. Everyone can see how political Islam has made life a living hell for people.

Yes, Iran is a pro Islamic state but I learnt that despite the sharia law, citizens are not prohibited from owning Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies, although they're not allowed to be used as a payment system, which means that citizens are the ones that would determine whether they'll be pro Bitcoin or not.
 I believe that some smart citizens must have evolved from their local currency to owning Bitcoin and even moving to safer regions where they can use the digital asset they own for whatever use case, but what happened to their local currency would serve as an eye opener to the citizens of Iran that were skeptical about owning Bitcoin, it's not too late for them to embrace it though.

[DeeppRockk]

i agree that even with restrictions on payments, ownership is key.
iranians using vpns and decentralized exchanges shows how bitcoin bypasses local controls. this adaptability makes it a global hedge, not just for iran.

self-custody remains vital, especially when governments clamp down.

interesting how regional demand can ripple through markets.

[Dave1]

The situation in Iran didn't emerge overnight. There has been a sharia system for many years and people there struggle even to breathe. Many of those who have the means come to Türkiye and feel more comfortable here. I'm sure most of the investors also bought Bitcoin here. No one trusts their country's currency naturally.
I hope Iran returns to democracy and people can live more freely again. Everyone can see how political Islam has made life a living hell for people.

Yes, it's a long year decade that even before the second term of Trump, they have been under some trade embargo from the West. Until such time that this arrived for them, perhaps if Iranians knows what is going to happened to them then they could have escape to other countries or see Bitcoin as a way out.

So it might be too late for them to buy Bitcoin, I'm talking about the population as a whole as there are still die hard supporters of the current government that's why it's very hard to oust him just like many strongman man in history. It's either he dies a natural death to cause a change or there is a coup inside the country that has the support of military and key political figures.

I don't see this as a bullish news.

[BlackBoss_]

Bitcoin is there to save them and they know the drill, look how bitcoin spike!



https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1450680033131073&set=a.788813799317703

That's an insane spike but it does not change what Bitcoin is and how good Bitcoin is compares to fiat currencies, not only Iranian Rial!

Bitcoin with many great things as advantages from its technical and coinomics designs have been already recognized as a very good asset against inflations of fiat currencies and their decreases of purchasing power.

Fiat currencies never stop their printings so their inflations become bigger and worse with time, consequently all fiat currencies have decreases of purchasing power with time. It's only more or less severe their purchasing power decreases are, depends on their printing severity.

One interesting thing with Iran situations, is with bitcoin, people can carry their bitcoins around Iran or flee to other nations easily. With Iranian rials, they can not do the same as carry huge bags of rials around Iran or to other nations are simply impossible.

[ancafe]

While it's not global affection free, but we've seen on how it reacted with the global pandemic and other events that it doesn't have a center if chaos or wars happen.

I think we have forum members that are from Iran, I pray for your safety there guys.

This has happened long before and even the Iranian currency has been experiencing problems, having plummeted so severely and its exchange rate is currently plummeting, marking an ongoing crisis. Structural accumulation is caused by global political and economic tensions, so Iran is currently experiencing difficult times, although sometimes this is not immediately apparent. It seems that international sanctions, political and other policies are also affecting Iran's current trajectory and we hope they can resolve these issues so they don't have a wider impact.

The plummeting Iranian currency could trigger broader problems, especially for the people there. Based on our observations from outside the country, this could lead to a prolonged crisis, making the problem much worse when there are no viable options become a solution to overcome the increasingly widespread problem.

[dannyatwork8]

Bitcoin is there to save them and they know the drill, look how bitcoin spike!

https://www.talkimg.com/images/2026/01/13/UF7Rqg.jpeg

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Wait, what just happened with that spike? Also, where is the price data being sourced from? Pretty sure there's no CEX there. Does buying and selling of digital asset in Iran exist in black market like everything else? If yes, who decides on the floating price?

[NotATether]

The situation in Iran didn't emerge overnight. There has been a sharia system for many years and people there struggle even to breathe. Many of those who have the means come to Türkiye and feel more comfortable here. I'm sure most of the investors also bought Bitcoin here. No one trusts their country's currency naturally.
I hope Iran returns to democracy and people can live more freely again. Everyone can see how political Islam has made life a living hell for people.

Iran's version of Islam in particular, that gives the rest of us practicing Muslims second-hand embarrassment, is very brutal to its own citizens.

Even going as far as trying to regulate cryptocurrency by calling it "haram" or something. I'm sure somebody said that a while ago, not sure if it was some Iranian guy.

There is no pride to be had with this system which serves only to appease the leader of Iran and his paid militias (which he likes to call "martyrs" for some sick reason).

Wait, what just happened with that spike? Also, where is the price data being sourced from? Pretty sure there's no CEX there. Does buying and selling of digital asset in Iran exist in black market like everything else? If yes, who decides on the floating price?

Iran's currency failed. There is no saving this modern Wiemar Republic now, because they don't have any bankers competent enough to re-issue currency especially now that the protests aren't going away.

The US saying it is prepared to help IRAN secure freedom sounds really funny to me. It is a known fact that US sanctions played a major role in crippling Iran's economy and the sanctions were tightened by same Trump which saw it crumble even further. If he wants to help the people, he should start by lifting some sanctions that would improve the economy, I believe that is the best form of help the people need now and not devastating them more with a strike or invasion. Seems to me like he is more interested in ousting the leader than actually helping the people.

No sanctions will be lifted while this tyrant is still in power (which is the whole reason why they are there in the first place). OFAC will only lift them after he is ousted. It is a similar situation to Syria.

[Nahl]

Once again that fiat has been proven his weakness that this really shows how fragile fiat currency is when a country is hit by a serious crisis and imagined if someone at Iran own 1 bitcoin now which i think he liked owned heaven because currently 1 bitcoin is equal to 105 billion rial but unfortunately Iran government didn't see crypto as the solution of their financial crisis that before this news appears few weeks ago Iran has been banned every advertising related to crypto but some citizen have fight against this policy that rumoured at least more than 20% of Iran citizen owning bitcoin and i think this is good because bitcoin can being an financial protection to the people at there

[AbuBhakar]

Once again that fiat has been proven his weakness that this really shows how fragile fiat currency is when a country is hit by a serious crisis and imagined if someone at Iran own 1 bitcoin now which i think he liked owned heaven because currently 1 bitcoin is equal to 105 billion rial but unfortunately Iran government didn't see crypto as the solution of their financial crisis that before this news appears few weeks ago Iran has been banned every advertising related to crypto but some citizen have fight against this policy that rumoured at least more than 20% of Iran citizen owning bitcoin and i think this is good because bitcoin can being an financial protection to the people at there

That's why each of us should really have a backup plan just in case a scenario like this happens in our country. That cannot be avoided, so it is better to back bitcoin or gold so that, in case your currency falls, like in Iran, you have a backup plan. Iran is not a weak country because they have a supply of oil that can be sold internationally, but it still hasn't been able to avoid the US that moved to overthrow it, and there are many things that will happen after that, especially they are being squeezed even more by Donald Trump because of the sanctions.

[davis196]

If no one doesn't know the news[1] yet, just check this conversion of how much $1 in Iranian Rial and this is because of the protests happening there.

There's an absolute chaos there with the police against the protesters. And in result Iran's currency collapses that dictates its economy.

In terms of its currency and its value, we can learn from it that the fiat/currency of any country can collapse when chaos happens anytime.

The Iranian rial collapses due to the economic and financial problems of Iran, not because of protests and police brutality.
OK, the Iranians must buy Bitcoin, but then what? Are they able to buy food and pay the bills with their Bitcoins? NO. Do you even believe that the Iranians are able to buy BTC with their Iranian bank accounts? AFAIK, Iran is a pretty anti-crypto country(despite the rumors that the Iranian governments sells weapons for crypto). Fortunately my country has adopted the euro and I don't have to buy BTC just for the sake of protecting my wealth against hyperinflation. I still believe that currencies like the US dollar and the Euro will never face hyperinflation(but they will lose value slowly). I don't know what it's like to live in a country, that has a collapsing national currency.

[ThemePen]

Iranian sad story shows ease with which political chaos can ruin savings of person when his or her money is tied to government currency. Local currency tends to fall apart once people do not trust their country, and Bitcoin serves as needed life raft in terms of money protection. Due to its independence, there is no main office that can be closed by government, and people can carry their savings around without taking risks as they can do with a seed phrase because Bitcoin is easy to move. Now, we are seeing Bitcoin become chosen thing to own in such locations as Ukraine, Lebanon and Iran where it is helping people survive prices rising too fast and keep ability to buy. Whereas large companies are protecting against world price rises, to people living in war and protests, Bitcoin is usually only tool to make sure of their financial safety and keep their basic human rights.

[Luzin]

Now, we are seeing Bitcoin become chosen thing to own in such locations as Ukraine, Lebanon and Iran where it is helping people survive prices rising too fast and keep ability to buy. Whereas large companies are protecting against world price rises, to people living in war and protests, Bitcoin is usually only tool to make sure of their financial safety and keep their basic human rights.

But what if this situation happened all over the world? I briefly read that this situation occurred due to pressure from the United States government. Sanctions on the nuclear program have put the Iranian economy under pressure and weakened it due to mismanagement and corruption within the government. Indeed, this situation happened because of the power of the US government. But if unrest like this occurred globally, economic and political turbulence would continue. Would Bitcoin become the best alternative, since all currencies have value because of trust and necessity? CMIIW