I am trying to piece a few things together but have not seen it discussed anywhere.
The word is, some ships are allowed through the strait, but these ships then pay in BTC.
Since it is reported that 3200 ships are "waiting", I am wondering, given the peculiar price movements since the "double cease fire", there is another play at work.
https://www.cointribune.com/en/iran-imposes-a-bitcoin-toll-to-cross-the-strait-of-hormuz/
But .... there also is something else:
https://c4ads.org/publications/
Peruse the articles .... Protean fleet. At least 10.000 ships. And the way it works is even more mindboggling than simply a BTC address with a segwit.
It seems to me, IF 2 or more million is paid in BTC to pass, then the traces of such a payment should be visible. The thing is, it is not paid in Pounds Sterling ( auch for the CoL) but who is the recipient?
What if this actually fills US coffers, only to be used as a backstop?
I mean, if Scott Bessent is the originator of the '92 Pound Sterling attack, throwing it out of the EMS, making Soros billions, clearly this man knows more about such things than many "experts", especially with more than a year prep.
I am not saying it is ..... But ... something peculiar is going on, and I can't even formulate my question really. The ups and downs are way too ..... precise. Today I calculated it would be a 1000 up. Nice. I also calculated the 71500 level as a short exit. Nice. Thanks and all. But is it never been this precise. It feels off.
Beginning to think that most of trumps cabinet and dept heads are people he flipped.
i seem to recall that there was a call out at some point early in the drops saying, “if you want to make it moving forward, now is your window to come forward”.
Yeah most, if not all. It's one thing I don't really like about this Admin. Once flipped, when left to their own devices or after Trump leaves office, they can easily flip back and bury any negative info against them that could or would be leaked by Trump and his family.
However, I do admit that in that particular Swamp, it is exceedingly difficult to find someone who isn't a snake, a bottom feeder, or or carrion eater. And they know all the intricacies of the Swamp, too. But it's still disconcerting knowing we have to work with that vermin in order to make and keep America great again.
It's a dirty and disgusting job, but I'm glad it's Trump at the helm right now. Maybe and hopefully Vance, Rubio, Hegseth, and Gabbard can carry that mantle faithfully come 2028. Because I don't know that anyone else will stay faithful to The Cause, and the jury's still out regarding them, too.
always a concern but if the swamp is drained by then, then there is nothing to flip back to
Might very well be the case.
I've some Truth social Post in which Trump is warning Iran to not be charging ships .....
So, the play may be even more convoluted than seems.
So, Russian oiltanker goes through the "pas de calais" / Dover straight, accompanied by a Russian Naval vessel (heavily armed) but 3200 ships remain shitting brics (pun) in Gulf of Persia? Who's ships are these really? Protean?
Scott Bessent is an apex predator of the financial world. He is a genius. He was employed by Bank of London/ Soros.
Here's a good article that goes into detail.
Iran Franchises Hormuz: Toll Corridor, Not Blockade https://share.google/R1B3X2dr2R8PLS0GW
They deliberately structured it in yuan-redeemable crypto so the US can neither benefit nor intervene.
Nice addition. This seems to be a direction that solves both black-fleet issues as well as a potential income stream.
Bitcoin is not a privacy coin, and it can be monitored.
Yes and no.
Yes on the Bitcoin is not a privacy coin in and of itself. It requires some add-ons:
These two are baked into Cake Wallet. Meaning, it becomes a privacy coin when using these two, explaining the no part.
Sort of again. They can follow to the coinjoin address. People would not be buying BTC on exchanges of course, to avoid any tracking. They can monitor switches/routers via timing methods of tracking. Not for me and you mind you, but for State actors the NSA can really narrow things down. I mean tech/NSA/Darpa owns the internet infrastructure, so privacy is sort of a mirage.
That is indeed the perception, and I belief there has been a study publicized on that matter somewhere in 2014 or 2015. SO, yes, it can be traced and tracked.
The ting with digital assets / wallets, is two fold:
When Kholomoisky ripped the Ukraine off of 5 billion dollars, the guard dogs could only find 20 million of that. The rest is ......
my guess is: hushed .... so, there are ways.
"It feels off." Yes it does.
I do not see logistically how Iran can close off the Strait.
I do not see how Iran can close the Strait with other nations having as much right, bordering on it, that Iran does.
I do not see how Iran can close the Strait against the power of the US and many other nations which have an interest in keeping it open.
WUT?!? I trust the Plan.
It's about might not rights. They are right there and can attack at this bottleneck.
Per u/lawjic ‘s comment:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=230tT50QPko
there are some very bad ppl out there
I enjoyed the comment about Bessent being a financial apex predator.
It’s nice to (seemingly, at least) have those guys on our side, finally.
Protean Chinky Dark Fleet
Serious relevance to Iran & current/past geopolitics...
The moar you be knowin 🌈 an sheit 💩
The "Hormuz" is a metaphor for transaction fees in the new money system. The BRICS just brought theirs online or something. Any ships allowed through are probably symbolic for early trial transactions.
Correct. BRICS PAY is the name. https://bricstechnology.io/brics-pay/
Interesting article: https://thinkbrics.substack.com/p/the-dollars-slow-unraveling-how-bitcoin
Viewed from a slightly different angle: why would a Petro dollar be needed in the first place to support the US? It seems there was a different calculus at work, at the same time when the actual Empire morphed into something else, and also creating the liquidity market called EURODOLLAR.
It seems, the International Rules Based Order, the typical consensus system, requiring states to embed themselves into supra national organizations where consensus drives the outcome, it is easy to see how this ties into the label the Atlantic called now: USA as the superpower going rogue. In essence, supra national entities erode national sovereignty. (see Carlo Schmidt: 1948. He says it literally). But the way to turn back the clock on this out of control system, is a different matter, as it ties into everything.
Interestingly, when Doge started to turn the screws on one part of the dark money flow, BTC dropped as a stone. 50%.
My guess is, we are not there yet, as fraud and abuse is still an ongoing and heightened project (Scott Bessent: 30% of the claw back is for the whistleblower). It would not surprise me that these efforts plus that what is done to put a dent into the black fleet, will allow BTC to drop another 25% from its high (126.000) or back to 50K or maybe even lower given the abysmal structure between 32.000 and 72.000.
And perhaps, indeed, given the level of new bitcoin produced, it may be that Michael Saylor is capable of buying it all. But it does not take into account the fact that IF the territory of max pain and the timeframe on which this happens intensifies and elongates, well .... his claim of no more BTC winter will be felt as BS. I would suspect, in such territory, only the real hodlers remain, and will drive a huge spike into the heart of dark money flows.
Thanks, I'm struggling to learn the $ymbols. If the EURODOLLAR is the LIQuidity market, does that mean the "Low IQ" rant was about them?
Actually now that I think for a sec, I thought Japan was the source of LIQ-uitidy until recently when they started closing it down.
Yes, through the Yen carry trade.All these systems are interconnected.
So if tankers represent transactions, then Russian Shadow Fleet Tankers moving unmolested through the "English channel" must mean they're no longer forced to use the dark money flows?
https://greatawakening.win/p/1ASZHkE806/this-was-russias-response-when--/c/
And China no longer benefits from that.
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116378705268992787
That seems a reasonable supposition.
Good question and good digging. You may want to consider that Iran has been a proxy of the British Crown for many decades. The crown receives 61% of the oil revenue out of Iran. The Supreme mullah gets to divide the remaining 39% as they see fit. That has been a great deal for the mullah but not so much the Iranian people. They dole out to what they prioritize, while benefiting handsomely personally all along. Same thing with the insurance company Lloyd's as they use that to benefit the Crown as well. Both of these combined has kept the status quo going regardless of who is in charge. The whole world pays tribute to the Crown by using this present set up if they do business there.
Nice! Thanks!
I mentioned the black Protean fleet, because it ties in with how ownership of companies behaves ( company = legal vessel) => paradise and panama papers.
And all the usual suspects are in there .... and it plays nicely within the CoL system
The Spider's Web | Unraveling Britain's Global Financial Legacy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynDToVBvRlU
@jhartz39 left this. May help.
Watch the video below in the comment section on X, it gives the complete history of how we got here. I wouldn't be surprised if the Dept of War created it.
Here is the link;
https://x.com/OG_DrC/status/2042038346579407086?s=20
What do I need to add to advise jhartz I stole his post?
OMG what an awesome video well worth an hour to listen to.
Yes. I think it should be stickied on its own. Answers a lot of questions, and if parts are incorrect, it's a damn fine guess.
Definitely should be stickied and every anon would benefit by listening to it.
I put a transscript up in the comments. You can copy past it into a .odt or .docx and format it for better readability. Alternatively, copy paste it into grok or gab.
https://twitter.com/Richardyork968/status/2042342197694185784?s=20
Iran has said they are using a third party for BTC processing. The few payments that have been paid were all tracked to the same anonymous wallet.
The current theory is that the bitcoin processor is operating out of Sierra Leone based on other payments to and from the wallet. For example, last year the same wallet taking payments paid for 25000 gallons of diesel at a Liberian port.
China has made 15 payments of $2 million to the wallet - you can track it on Whales. But, China has straight forward said these payments were to a third party, not Iran, so it didn't violate sanctions.
They wouldn't bother saying that if US was taking the payments.
Thanks, I'll look into it.
How are BTC purchases traceable if the whole idea of it and other stablecoins is anonymity?
Also, with all the financial sanctions against Iran, China, and Russia at the moment, and the reporting that only ships either heading to China or Chinese flagged were being allowed through, it seems to me exactly who was benefitting there.
Also, what or who is "Protean?" I've not heard that reference before.
https://www.webopedia.com/crypto/learn/how-to-track-btc-transactions/
I am sure you knew this already. Hook up a Cray computer or an AI to a node, and crunching is not that hard.
This article may give some more answers to the question of how:
In essence, knowing the hashrate and the costs, it becomes quite easy to have some idea, and it can be measured against the ships in the area. On purpose I linked to C4DO, because of that dark Fleet: Protean. What we see is what they let us know. It should not be too hard to have a handle on what is what.
IF "thin thread" (Bill Binney) can do it for human communication, how about ships communications and signals, especially in an integrated field like the MIL/ NSA has?
So, although the contents of a message may be encrypted, it does not mean the metadata is. And even though it may be, what if these people used TOR? hahahaha, we've suspected it to be comped. In terms of Spaceforce, why not host an exit and perhaps even more tomfoolery, especially when you have all the assets locally in place? By taking out communication HINDRANCE, and means of communication, (Trump said: they are using children to pass on paper messages) the infra taking its place of course is ... controlled.
And since Scott Bessent said, they've been planning this at least since a year ago, I would say, there seems to be a pretty good handle on who is who.
One thing I haven't seen mentioned is oil and gas producers get Bitcoin for free from gas flaring.
Flared gas is "stranded energy". Energy producers have to burn off excess gas, and there was nothing economical to do with it until bitcoin mining. Energy producers can generate power from the flared gas and use it to power mining rigs. As far as an energy producer goes, paying in Bitcoin is super easy because it's virtually a waste product.
This may have been the plan all along. The City of London, the Globalists and the Banking cartels will lose all of their leverage if this stands.
Wow! That is interesting. I had not thought of that, or heard it before. It sounds logical. Any idea of the size of this? I mean, normally, one would go with electricity prices, but based on waste, the calculus and thus profitability of mining could be totally different ... over years .... i.e. 2016 till now at least I would venture.
Btc headed max 94k then 47k then ultimately lower ime