🏛️ POLICY: The US just widened sanctions authority over Iran’s digital-asset sector while threatening foreign facilitators with exclusion from the dollar system. The tension: that pressure can curb Iran-linked crypto flows now, while reinforcing the longer-term case for BTC and gold as alternatives to dollar dependence. https://cryptoslate.com/us-widens-iran-crypto-sanctions-as-dollar-threat-revives-bitcoin-and-gold-debate/(CryptoSlate)