[doctorzook]

> Last year, a study found that 4.5% of all bitcoin mining was taking place in Iran...

So there is that.

But the story ultimately looks entirely based on a tweet [1] from an official that Google translates as:

> This week, the first official import order registration with #currency_currency worth 10 million dollars was successfully completed. By the end of September, the use of cryptocurrencies and smart contracts will be widespread in foreign trade with target countries.

So I agree that the story is pretty thin.

[1] https://twitter.com/peymanpak_ir/status/1556927239907835904

[mahdi7d1]

Here mining's legality is still unclear. A lot of individuals mine bitcoin but illegally not because mining per say is illegal but because for example they mine in their farms using the cheap electricity that is being given to them for the purpose of producing crops and when government finds them I assume also takes the bitcoin they have mined.