{"id":79891,"date":"2026-04-08T14:01:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T14:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=79891"},"modified":"2026-04-08T14:01:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T14:01:34","slug":"iran-demands-bitcoin-payments-at-hormuz-as-trump-says-strait-must-open-immediately-and-completely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=79891","title":{"rendered":"Iran Demands Bitcoin Payments At Hormuz As Trump Says Strait Must Open &#8216;Immediately And Completely&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Iran will demand shipping companies pay tolls in <strong>Bitcoin<\/strong> <a class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"BTC\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/BTC-USD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) for oil tankers passing through the Strait of Hormuz during the two-week ceasefire, directly contradicting President Trump\u2019s demand for \u201ccomplete, immediate, and safe opening\u201d of the waterway.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Bitcoin Toll System<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Hamid Hosseini<\/strong>, spokesperson for Iran\u2019s Oil, Gas and Petrochemical Products Exporters\u2019 Union, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/02aefac4-ea62-48db-9326-c0da373b11b8?syn-25a6b1a6=1\">told<\/a> the Financial Times that Iran wants to collect tolling fees from any tanker passing and assess each ship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIran needs to monitor what goes in and out of the strait to ensure these two weeks aren\u2019t used for transferring weapons,\u201d Hosseini said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His industry association works closely with the state.<\/p>\n<p>Each tanker must email authorities about its cargo. Iran will then inform them of the toll in digital currencies.<\/p>\n<p>The tariff is $1 per barrel of oil, while &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/04\/51704169\/iran-demands-bitcoin-payments-at-hormuz-as-trump-says-strait-must-open-immediately-and-comp?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Iran\" demands bitcoin payments at hormuz as trump says strait must open and completely>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran will demand shipping companies pay tolls in Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) for oil tankers passing through the Strait of Hormuz during the two-week ceasefire, directly contradicting President Trump\u2019s demand for \u201ccomplete, immediate, and safe opening\u201d of the waterway. The Bitcoin Toll System Hamid Hosseini, spokesperson for Iran\u2019s Oil, Gas and Petrochemical Products Exporters\u2019 Union, told [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-79891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}