When fiat collapses, people run to Bitcoin.
By Maxime Laurent · 2026-01-16 09:12
When fiat collapses, people run to Bitcoin.
Iranians are moving into $BTC en masse as the rial implodes, using crypto to protect savings and escape controls.
This one isn’t about speculation. It’s about survival.
According to Chainalysis, residents of Iran are rapidly converting savings into $BTC as the national currency collapses. In just a few weeks, the rial went from 42 to 1050 per dollar. That’s not volatility — that’s annihilation.
When your fiat savings melt like ice in August, you don’t care about narratives or charts. You care about exit. Bitcoin becomes a lifeline: scarce, borderless, bankless. A way to store value and move it abroad without asking permission from a system that’s already failing you.
This is Bitcoin at its rawest. Not ETFs. Not institutions. Just people protecting what little they have left. I’ve always said it: in stable countries, $BTC is an investment. In broken ones, it’s infrastructure.
Moments like this remind me why Bitcoin exists at all.
Pas pour trader — pour survivre.
Quietly, block by block, it keeps doing its job. 🌍
#Bitcoin #BTC #Iran #inflation #crypto #financialfreedom #CryptoFriture
Iranians are moving into $BTC en masse as the rial implodes, using crypto to protect savings and escape controls.
This one isn’t about speculation. It’s about survival.
According to Chainalysis, residents of Iran are rapidly converting savings into $BTC as the national currency collapses. In just a few weeks, the rial went from 42 to 1050 per dollar. That’s not volatility — that’s annihilation.
When your fiat savings melt like ice in August, you don’t care about narratives or charts. You care about exit. Bitcoin becomes a lifeline: scarce, borderless, bankless. A way to store value and move it abroad without asking permission from a system that’s already failing you.
This is Bitcoin at its rawest. Not ETFs. Not institutions. Just people protecting what little they have left. I’ve always said it: in stable countries, $BTC is an investment. In broken ones, it’s infrastructure.
Moments like this remind me why Bitcoin exists at all.
Pas pour trader — pour survivre.
Quietly, block by block, it keeps doing its job. 🌍
#Bitcoin #BTC #Iran #inflation #crypto #financialfreedom #CryptoFriture
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