As an Iranian living in El Salvador, one detail this week hit me harder than any price chart.
El Salvador publishes its bitcoin treasury on a public page (bitcoin.gob.sv), and anyone can check the addresses on-chain. Officially about 7,817 BTC as of Oct 26. The IMF says recent increases came from private donations, and the government says signed quarterly disclosures start at the end of December. You can argue about the policy all day, but you don't have to trust anyone's word about the number.
Back home, nobody I know has ever seen proof of what the central bank actually holds. The rial loses value and people are told to trust.
"Don't trust, verify" is the lesson I most want to teach Iranians, and it goes beyond reserves: verify your wallet app, verify your node software, verify the news.
So a question for the community: what's the best hands-on way to teach verification to people with slow, censored internet? Simple exercises, tools that work offline, anything you've seen work. I'll turn the best ideas into Farsi lessons.
zamanibitcoin / زمانی در بیتکوین | Zamani in Bitcoin
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2026-10-29 06:34:20 UTC
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