Apparently the price has trebled on the local Bitcoins market.
no it has not. the price of bitcoin is as it has always been in Iran. you are referring to a false information that was spread on the internet over the past couple of days because someone fetched the wrong IRR value against USD and made a calculation error.
Mohammad Reza Pourebrahimi, chairman of Iran’s economic commission, has stated that more than $2.5 billion has been transferred out of the country via Bitcoin.
what this refers to is mainly the foreign miners who have set their mining operation inside Iranian soil to take advantage of the low electricity cost that was supposed to be used for something else (they basically stole electricity) and then they transferred the mined bitcoins (without paying any taxes) abroad.
I know that the second most important man of Iran, just died yesterday in that attack and I'm sure more will follow and I don't know what IRAN did to upset USA this big.
in one word the reason is because Iran has been fighting ISIS!
the man they assassinated was THE MAIN reason why US backed terrorist groups such as Al-Qaeda and ISIS are no longer a threat.
don't get too excited. iranian localbitcoins volume has hit rock bottom the past few weeks.
https://coin.dance/volume/localbitcoins/IRR/BTCaccording to this report, these claims about skyrocketing price are bogus too. they are based on the central bank's official USD exchange rate, which is inflating the BTC/USD exchange rate. spot prices in iran apparently actually reflect the global market:
LBC is not popular in Iran hence the low volume.
as for official rate, it is a little less than 130k IRR that is used in setting the budget and it is nearly the same rate as what USD is being traded in the market.
the 42k value that you see has nothing to do with USD value against IRR, it is a value set by the government for certain basic needs imports such as medicines.