The U.S. Treasury sanctioned BitBank, a Tehran exchange it says moved hundreds of millions of dollars in bitcoin to the Revolutionary Guards and handled payments collected from ships buying passage through the world’s most important oil chokepoint. The U.S. Treasury sanctioned Tehran-based cryptocurrency exchange BitBank and its software developer, alleging the exchange moved hundreds of millions of dollars in Bitcoin to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Treasury said BitBank also proce…
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