In this monologue, the speaker explains that $475 million of the Iranian central bank’s cryptocurrency holdings were frozen under U.S. sanctions, marking an unprecedented action in financial history. He outlines how Iran has been using stablecoins, mixers, and offshore exchanges to move oil‑derived money and evade sanctions, and how on‑chain investigators—employing AI and sophisticated analytics—have traced and flagged these transactions. The speaker argues that the United States can now exert control over blockchain networks, effectively freezing transactions at a governmental level, and speculates that this power will be used to shape future crypto regulation. He reflects on the broader implications: increased regulatory oversight could bring safety to crypto markets, but also concentrates control in the hands of powerful actors. Finally, he promotes an AI‑driven crypto trading service he offers for a fee.
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Iran's central bank just had $475 million in crypto froze. The war is not physical anymore, it is financial. It wasn't seized by a hacker, it was frozen, okay, by government sanctions. This has never happened before in history, in human history. So here's what actually happened. The Iranian government has been dodging American sanctions for years. They've been routing oil money through cryptocurrency. Okay, we're talking about stablecoins, mixers, offshore exchanges. Pretty much they're using all of the crypto tools they possibly can to evade American sanctions with oil money specifically. So America did what it does best and it took control of the entire monetary system, the entire blockchain, to the point where they can freeze transactions. So basically there's a whole bunch of on-chain tools in cryptocurrency. You can see every transaction that ever happens from every person. You just don't know their identity, right? Not only that, but there's so many transactions that you need sophisticated software to sift through it. So I want you to imagine like a bank having a large piece of paper with all the transactions that's ever happened to their customer base. That's what a blockchain is. So essentially on crypto, you can see everything, but the barrier of entry is very high. You need AI and sophisticated tools. And there are these places that do that. It's called on-chain investigators. And so essentially, They have been flagging mixer deposits, wallets. Pretty much they have been reverse engineering Iran's method of concealing money and they've been flagging it. So obviously the powers that be know where the money is going. And so from my best guess right now, America is trying to pass crypto regulation. And the only way that could happen is if they control it. And so USDT and some of these blockchains are probably submitting to the will of the powers that be, which is probably the American government or something like that. And they're essentially allowing them to stop transactions for the greater good because, you know, Iran's bad or whatever. No one knows who's good or bad or whose side is what, but you get the point. The methodology in their brain, they're stopping the transactions completely. So I guess the question is, if they could do that to Iran because they're in war or whatever the case is, they don't really agree with what they're doing, then what about us? What if we do something that the American government doesn't agree with? And I would say that they already have the control, right? So if you're doing something the government doesn't like, It's either that you're too small or they don't care. But when you're big enough and they do care, they could just freeze your bank account anyways. It's the same control. So in my personal opinion, this is actually good for the adoption of crypto. Those who invest early will make a lot of money. The wealth transfer is confirmed. This will increase regulation and bring a lot of safety into crypto because there are people that are using it for like horrible activities, like, you know, selling humans and crazy stuff where they could hide it in crypto. I'd rather these tools exist. than not exist. By the way, if you guys want to know how I use crypto and AI together to make money, that automatically trades for me, buys, sells, does my risk management, researches the coin for me, and recommends exact trades, we give it away for a dollar. Go to the link in my bio. Talk to you guys later.
