He said that the tariff is $1 per barrel of oil, adding that empty tankers can pass freely. "Once the email arrives and Iran completes its assessment, vessels are given a few seconds to pay in Bitcoin, ensuring they can't be traced or confiscated due to sanctions," Hosseini added.

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[–] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Layer 2 networks like the lightning network operated in the milliseconds time frame.

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    Doesn't that require trust in the provider hosting the off chain transactions? And lightning transactions can get preempted by conflicting moves from a wallet, and invalidated? I'm no expert, but it seems like these big regular transactions would be targets for abuse.

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