good one.

I wonder what will be the implication if Iran will ally with China. It would take a little time now to have China as the superpower that will surpass even Russia. Their strategy with the self sufficiency and self sustainability is effective as they are using the network effect well. They have been long gone to use their people as their primary resource. That's why the crypto power does not affect them since they can create the monetary system.

Both addresses will soon be forgotten:
https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/1AjZPMsnmpdK2Rv9KQNfMurTXinscVro9V
https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/149w62rY42aZBox8fGcmqNsXUzSStKeq8C

Some money landed here: https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/329TGdi3YgYh6oB8ko7BeYEYvB2WCHZVyT
They will blacklist this one, too? This process might be a little to slow. Why not blacklist EVERY address?

I was wondered about the ability of governments to track and stop transactions in cryptocurrencies.

What happens next is probably a scenario that will track all the coins in those addresses and then freeze them once it reaches a central platform or freeze the money of whoever makes exchanges with those addresses "This will involve mixing services" and thus become coins with the inability to spend .

In my view, Bitcoin is designed to conduct transactions without the need for banks or any credible third party, governments freeze or enact laws to protect their people. "Now you look at it from the point of view of the Iranians, not the Americans" does not interfere with transactions without the need for a third party.
If you want to fully decentralize, use cryptos designed for privacy.

Exactly!
It was actually tried once in the past with stolen coins. It ended up with many innocent people having "blacklisted" coins and exchanges blocking them.
It ended quickly when it just did not work.

If you have 1000BTC and receive 0.01 blaclisted BTC, and consolidate your inputs, then your whole 1000.001 BTC wallet has to be blacklisted. Soon the whole network has to be "blaklisted" and then what.

Also. If you move your coins to new address (without using mixers) it could mean that you moved them to a new address of yours OR that you sold them to a new owner. When tracking coins you can newer be 100% certain if/when ownership has changed.

They have to, eventually, Trump got so many "talented" people around him.

This is already very serious. The United States once again speak negatively about cryptocurrencies. I think that special services need to deal with Iranian subjects and not to touch Bitcoin in this case

Well, I disagree that this is a declaration of war against bitcoin. I don't think the US federal agency would've made such a statement without having strong grounds to do so. Even though bitcoin transactions don't contain any information about the ownership of accounts, these Iranians could've written their addresses to some people of something like that. They could expose their wallets is all I'm saying. If they caught people who hacked someone's computer and asked for money to return the access to files to those people - I think they fully deserve to be deprived of those bitcoins they got from their business and this has nothing to do with hating cryptos. If these people, however, never knew who they were transacting with and what they were helping to do, then it is unfair.

To me it only proves how robust Bitcoin is. They managed to track and blacklist 2 addresses and there was a number of agents working on the case. This much effort and money spent to deal with 2 addresses, while somebody could make a new one and move the coins within minutes. And look how they're bragging about it like it's some kind of a great achievement.

This is the beginning of their btc address blacklist of censorship,

Any US Miner or non-US Miner that they can inflict monetary or criminal damages too,
that includes a transaction to or from the above address will face monetary or criminal penalties as a result.
At 1st they post these warnings , after about a year where their is continued ignoring of the warnings,
they will go after the miners that included the transactions in the blockchain.

The Swedish banks cowered to the US Gov. regulations, it is most amusing ,
that you think a few guys running ASICS warehouse sponsored by VCs, have a moral virtue, their only obligation is to their own greed, unfortunately.
PoW always Centralized and as such , this control becomes possible over time.

Since BTC allows the miners to choose which transactions to process, it gives them a weakness that the US Gov. plans to exploit.
Coins that include all transactions in linear order, without choosing , would at least have a leg to stand on in court, btc does not.

So what happens after wards, is miners that refuse to obey the new address blacklist that is updated by the World Governments,
will have their power cut off, and face legal problems, where as the ones that obey the new address black list will be granted easier access to electricity.

People that had the virtue & moral backbone to resist this type of censorship have already been pushed out of the btc mining due to excessive input costs, years ago. Now all you have is businessmen that want to get along to keep the money flowing in.

 

FYI:
Just because you not a US miner, does not mean you are safe,
many other countries will join the US in this crackdown, just so they can include address they want blocked in the blacklist.