The Islamic Republic of Iran has apparently changed course on cryptocurrency, or perhaps it has clarified its real position previously mischaracterized by the press. It’s increasingly difficult to get a real handle on the official status of crypto in the Persian homeland.
Iran to Control and Prevent Cryptocurrency
Hamed Jafari reported as soon as two weeks ago, Iran was considering issuing “a local cryptocurrency, a cryptocurrency consortium with specific countries and regulating the already established cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin.” Not more than last week, International Business Times insisted “a half dozen contenders” in Iran were vying to bring the country its first set of initial coin offerings (ICOs).
Indeed, Iran under the weight of international sanctions seems to be a perfect breeding ground for cryptocurrency. Paypal, Mastercard, Visa are all forbidden. Its fiat currency continues to fall against the dollar to all-time lows even as its regime struggled recently to reform interest rates and forgive loans. Crypto might be a way around pretty brutal financial conditions. Reports last year seemed to suggest the country was considering as much.
Iran Front Page, however, an independent news aggregation site, is throwing cold water on region some by insisting the Iranian central bank never recognized bitcoin as legal tender. The banker also said it had no intention of “actively facilitating Bitcoin transactions.”
Local Crypto?
Indeed the bank is reported to have explained how “wild fluctuations of the digital currencies along with competitive business activities underway via network marketing and pyramid scheme [tactics] have made the market of these currencies highly unreliable and risky.” Additionally, Iran’s central bank is said to be looking at a way to “control and prevent digital currencies in Iran.”
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