{"id":580538,"date":"2026-04-08T16:52:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T16:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/08\/iran-is-weighing-crypto-tolls-for-ships-using-strait-of-hormuz-report\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T16:52:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T16:52:51","slug":"iran-is-weighing-crypto-tolls-for-ships-using-strait-of-hormuz-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/08\/iran-is-weighing-crypto-tolls-for-ships-using-strait-of-hormuz-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran is weighing crypto tolls for ships using Strait of Hormuz: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Iran<\/p>\n

Empty tankers will reportedly be permitted to pass through the waterway under the US-Iran deal, but certain ships will need to pay a tariff of $1 per barrel of oil in Bitcoin.<\/p>\n

Hours after US President Donald Trump claimed that Iran and the United States had agreed to a two-week ceasefire that included opening the Strait of Hormuz, Iranian authorities are reportedly considering charging ships using the waterway in cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n

According to a Wednesday Financial Times report, a spokesperson for Iran\u2019s Oil, Gas and Petrochemical Products Exporters\u2019 Union said<\/a> empty oil tankers will be able to pass through the Strait of Hormuz without incurring charges, but certain ships will need to pay a tariff of $1 per barrel of oil in Bitcoin (BTC<\/a>).<\/p>\n

The spokesperson, Hamid Hosseini, reportedly said Iranian authorities would also assess each ship using the waterway over the two-week period to ensure it wasn\u2019t transporting weapons.<\/p>\n

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Empty tankers will reportedly be permitted to pass through the waterway under the US-Iran deal, but certain ships will need to pay a tariff of $1 per barrel of oil in Bitcoin. Hours after US President Donald Trump claimed that Iran and the United States had agreed to a two-week ceasefire that included opening the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":580539,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-580538","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}