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.
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.